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[Pleasure Steamer “Brighton Queen” at West Pier; Bathing Beauties at Brighton Beach; Devil’s Dyke Fun Fair; Brighton Promenade.]
Date | [ca. 1896]; [ca. 1920s] | ID | 6080 |
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A compilation of early films made in Brighton and Hove and compiled by Hove Museum. The compilation includes a pleasure steamer at the West Pier, Women in bathing costumes, a funfair at Devil's Duke, and various beach scenes.
Petticoat Lane Market
Date | [1903?] | ID | 8403 |
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Sellers and customers at Pettticoat Lane Market are captivated by Cecil Hepworth's camera.
![[Broadstairs Items] (1927-1935) A still from [Broadstairs Items] (1927-1935) showing a woman waterskiing](/wp-content/uploads/films/1021/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Broadstairs Items]
Date | 1927 - 1935 | ID | 1021 |
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A compilation of scenes and events filmed in Broadstairs from 1927 to 1935, including the Broadstairs 'Water Sports' gala in 1927, Uncle Mack's Minstrels on stage, a fishing competition, and a trip to the North Goodwin light ship.
[Boat from Italy; Pyramids; Air Show; Picnic]
Date | [ca. 1929] | ID | 2979 |
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White-European travellers depart from Italy by sea, playing deck games as their journey gets underway. During his trip to Egypt the film-maker climbs one of the Pyramids, filming a panoramic shot from its zenith. Elsewhere, biplanes perform displays in tight formation. The film ends with footage of a multi-generational picnic.
![[Violette Cordery Motoring World Tour] (1927) A still from [Violette Cordery Motoring World Tour] (1927)](/wp-content/uploads/films/10645/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Violette Cordery Motoring World Tour]
Date | 1927 | ID | 10645 |
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This multi-reel film shows a series of stops on a World Tour by Miss Violette (Violet) Cordery, an English female motorist travelling in an Invicta car travelling 10.266 miles, by road and sea. The tour includes UK; France; North Africa; India, Australia; USA, and Canada. [Only Reel 1 is shown in the online clip].

The Motor Cycling Club London Lugano Run [Ahearn]
Date | August 1927 | ID | 10646 |
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This film shows Mr John Ahearn in his Invicta car [YE 7682] on the the Motor Cycling Club's London to Lugano car run in August 1927 filmed by Harry Weinstein.

The Motor Cycling Club London Lugano Run [H.C.Reigate]
Date | August 1927 | ID | 10647 |
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This two-part film shows the Motorcycling Club's London to Lugano car run in August 1927 filmed by H.G. Reigate in his Invicta car (YH 1305); accompanied by his travelling companion and navigator Mr M. Weinstein. The pair travel with a group of drivers in various cars on a journey through Europe.
[King's Mead School Sports, Outings and Recreational Activities; Army Artillery Display; Royal Navy Fleet]
Date | [ca. 1928 - 1930] | ID | 2955 |
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A compilation of amateur material showing the pupils of King's Mead Preparatory School engaged in a variety of recreational activities, and a flotilla of Royal Navy ships.
![[Wedding] (ca.1930) a still from [Wedding] (ca.1930)](/wp-content/uploads/films/7093/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Wedding]
Date | [ca. 1930] | ID | 7093 |
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This film shows post wedding events and family scenes outside a house in (Shanghai) China.
Tour of Devon and Cornwall
Date | [ca. 1930 ?] | ID | 8174 |
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This extended intertitled travelogue shows a group tour through the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset visiting many noted landmarks that includes the Madron Wishing Well and Chapel, standing stones of the Mên-an-Tol, the coast at Lands End with the "First and Last House" and the Daily Mail sign; Exeter; St Ives; the town of Clovelly in Devon; the moorlands of Dartmoor and Exmoor; the seaside towns of Penzance, Dawlish, Plymouth and Newlyn.
Scenes taken during trips between Portsmouth and Southampton; Summer 1929
Date | 1929 | ID | 3212 |
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Film of the Staley family on an outing on the South coast. Nellie Staley and her five year old daughter Pam board a ship at Portsmouth Harbour, and sail to the Isle of Wight. They are also seen boarding the Mauritania at Southampton, travelling to Cowes and returning to Portsmouth.
[A Winter Cruise; SS Avoceta 3500 tons]
Date | 26 October 1929 - 18 November 1929 | ID | 3214 |
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A detailed film by Ralph Staley of a cruise with his wife Nellie aboard the SS Avoceta; sailing from Liverpool and visiting Portugal, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Mrs Staley is filmed amongst other passengers and crew on deck. They take in the main tourist sights at all the stop off points and film some of the local people and customs they encounter. This film has intertitles throughout.

[Boat Trip Along the Suez Canal: Port Said to Aden]
Date | October 1929 | ID | 592 |
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Doctors Catherine Violet and Thomas Burne film part of their return trip to Malaya, where they were both stationed. Husband and wife had spent the preceding months with their children in England, as recorded in ~[Summer Seaside Holiday And Family Scenes]~ (March - October 1929).

[Tour: Aboard Ship]
Date | [ca. 1930] | ID | 6481 |
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This very short sequence shows a group of men gathered on the deck of a ship with a motorcar (continued from TID: 6462 & 6463) as filmed by Ernest Shippam in the 1930s. Part of the Motorcycle and car club trip.
[Cruise]
Date | [ca. 1930] | ID | 6482 |
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This film shows scenes onboard a cruise ship, with men and women on deck, sitting together and stretching out on deck chairs. Panoramic views of the sea follow showing another cruise ship at sea, as captured from the deck. The group take a smaller motor boat excursion to the shore, later followed by a scenes of the group on land sitting on a bridge and capturing views of several street scenes, before returning to ship.
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