Frozen seas at Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate, Kent. Various shots of people walking over snow covered beach and frozen sea. One loopy young man in a swimsuit tries to break the ice with his feet so he can swim!
Frozen seas at Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate, Kent. Various shots of people walking over snow covered beach and frozen sea. One loopy young man in a swimsuit tries to break the ice with his feet so he can swim!
Intertitle reads: "Rudyard Lake, Staffs".
Ten thousand fish for lake in Staffordshire. Various shots of men restocking angling lake with roach, carp and perch. The men break the ice before tipping in baby fish from buckets.
Intertitle reads: "Selby".
Skating championships at Selby. Yorkshire Amateur Skating Championships. Various shots of speed skating race on lake between Charles Claris of Leeds and E. Richardson. Various C/Us of the winner - Richardson - being presented with cup.
Intertitle reads: "Lingay Fen".
Skating championships at Lingay Fen, Cambridgeshire. Various shots of British Professional Championship speed ice skating race on frozen lake. A policemen on skates clears spectators out of the way. C/U of Randolph Churchill watching race. Donald Pearson wins the race for third time.
Intertitle reads: "Massawa".
On the Eritrean Front, scenes at Massawa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Various shots of railway tracks and streamlined steam engines with carriages being unloaded at docks. Mussolini intends to build railways through country recently conquered by Italian Army.
Intertitle reads: "London Zoo".
Boo-boo's birthday party, Regent's Park. Children have tea party to celebrate Jubilee the chimpanzee's first birthday. Jacko the chimp entertains the children. Meanwhile back inside the monkey cage, Jubilee and her mother Boo-Boo are given cake by the zookeeper.
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Animals are often the forgotten army of World War I. They displayed unwavering courage even when exposed to extreme conditions. British Pathé pay tribute to these forgotten warriors.
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
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