From Topical Budget Company Studios

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A momentous act of self sacrifice is caught on camera - Emily Davison is trampled by the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stunning views from the boundary of the 1921 Australian touring team's first match.

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

Colonial troops greet London's new Lord Mayor in a patriotic wartime ceremony.

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

First county cricket match of the season between champions Lancashire and Warwickshire.

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