Rural Archive DVD's

The Pattern of Britain

The Farms and Ways of Rural England

A famous series of films showing the development of farming and rural life in four diverse areas of the country: The Midland Shires, The Fens, Cornwall and the Downs.

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A Downland Farm in the Fifties

Bygone Farming on the Sussex Downs

A unique look back at a time when the English countryside was a busier place showing life on a Sussex Farm at the time of significant change..

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Farming in Father's Day

A busy family farm in the 1940s and 50s, when horses, steam threshing and gangs of labourers are still the norm, but gradually new machines, tractors, crawlers and combines are appearing in the picture, ready to take over.

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Mud, Dykes and Draglines

Archive film, working demonstrations and Vintage Machinery, showing how the land was drained

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A Land of Tradition

'Investigating traditional skills and crafts from wild fowling and home industries to the blacksmith, miller and the Poacher!

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Farming Our Land

The Norfolk town of Kings Lynn lies at the heart of the local agricultural industry. Over the years the landscape and farming methods have changed dramatically and this tranquil DVD follows those changes.

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Floods of East Anglia

1912-1955

Taking a look back to January 1953 (and other regional floods) when whole areas of East Anglia were under water creating the worst disaster in peacetime Britain.

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Essex Past Volume One

The County our Parents Knew

Journey to a bygone age and visit seaside towns, county towns, suburbs and villages, viewing Essex as it used to be from 1916.

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