Topical Budget Company

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

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

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

Footage of Spurs players training before the new football season, followed by shots of White Hart Lane being prepared.

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.

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

A masterful innings by Australian batsman Macartney in the third test at Headingley.

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

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

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

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

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