Topical Budget Company

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

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

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

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

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budget film.

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

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

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

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

The wedding of the Duke of York, the future George VI, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

MPs take to the Oval for a game of cricket.

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

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

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

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

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

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

Essex County cricket team get some much needed practice in the nets at the County Ground, Leyton.

Mechanical toys have become a favourite sinister device in horror cinema, and to modern eyes the wind-up wonders captured in this Topical Budget newsreel carry almost equal parts creepiness and charm. Toys like these may once have been the "uppermost thought in every young heart", but few 1920s children would have been lucky enough to find such expensive gifts under the tree on Christmas morning.

A crew of not-so-lonely lightshipmen enjoy a festive knees-up - 40 miles out at sea.