Topical Budget Company

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

Dashing through the snow; on a six-horse open plough... The streets are ready for sledging in 1920s Buxton.

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

The annual mop fair in Stratford-Upon-Avon, including the roasting of an ox.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

Women cricketers slog their male counterparts to the boundary in this fixture between Cobham Ladies and Manor Athletic in Richmond.

An aeronautical accident is caught on camera at a Parisian 'Aéro-Parc'.