Timereel Archive East Anglia DVDs

 

	East Anglia's Steam Years Take a journey back in time to experience the nostalgia of the heydey of steam. Using a collection of documentary footage and amateur film, East Anglia's Steam Years looks back at our regions railway lines. See the story of the M&GN Railway from its foundation through to its closure, told by then men who worked the line. Watch the last days of the Cambridge to Mildenhall branch cine back to life in stunning period colour film. Relive the elegant magic of the Scottish Express which rumbled through East Anglia en route from London.  Running Time: 55  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £10.99 + £1.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging
	Tramways of East Anglia For decades, trams rattled along the streets of towns and cities across East Anglia. The arrival of the motorcar and bus changed the way people travelled, and soon the tramways were no more.  Take a look back at our region's lost tramways including:    Dick Joice presents his farewell to Trams. A special anniversary outing on the Wisbech to Upwell tramway. Southend's boulevard tram and pier train. The early days of the tram preservation movement at Carlton Colville   Running Time: 55  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £10.99 + £1.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging
	Women In East Anglia - Wartime Lives In 1915, a young woman from Suffolk became a soldier in the Serbian Army. In the same year nurse Edith Cavell from Norfolk was helping Allied soldiers escape imprisonment. The women of East Anglia rose to every challenge during the two world wars, from working the land to firefighting.   Running Time: 55  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £10.99 + £1.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging
	Women In East Anglia - Working Lives In the 1900s, women worked as housewives, domestic servants, farm labourers or nurse.  Sixty years later, their world had been transformed, Household chores had given way to lipstick, shorter skirts and careers that had been exclusively for men.   Running Time: 55  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £10.99 + £1.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging
	Ghosts Of East Anglia A girl who communicates with the dead... A phantom figure captured in a photograph... A church bell that rings by itself... East Anglia has always been rich in tales of the supernatural but from the 1960s onwards sightings of ghosts became the subject of news headlines and television investigations. Now you can watch these true stories from the vaults of the East Anglian Film Archive. Told through documentary footage and interviews explore the real ghosts stories of our regions. Running Time: 95  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £10.99 + £1.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging
	Here Was The News 1960 Part 1 In 1959, the only source of news from your area was the local paper – until the launch of Anglia Television brought regional news to television sets for the first time. From flooding to fashions, the headlines of 1959 and 1960 included:   * Merging the Norfolk and Suffolk Regiments   * Norwich, Gorleston, Ipswich and Peterborough football clubs   * Princess Margaret, Winston Churchill, Douglas Bader and Hughie Green   See the hot topics of the hour - would new flats ruin Frinton? Should Norfolk have an open prison? Why were people shopping at the new supermarkets? Do women talk more than men   Running Time: 75  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £10.99 + £1.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging
	Here Was The News 1960 Part 2 In the summer of 1960, Anglia TV was in its first year of broadcasting the news. Away from the county shows and crowded beaches, life across the region was changing. From the end of steam to the arrival of the Go-Kart, the news included:   * Speedway at Wembley and motor racing at Snetterton   * David Dimbleby in Lavenham and David Frost in Norwich   * Closure of the M&GN Railway Harwich, Lowestoft, Felixstowe and the Cromer Carnival   * Richard Hearn, also known as 'Mr.Pastry'   See the hot topics of the hour – why were the trains not running on time? Should drinking laws be changed? Was it a mistake to close Norwich Cattle market?   Running Time: 75  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £10.99 + £1.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging
	Anglia At War - The Complete Collection (3 DVD Boxset) For the first time, this groundbreaking Anglia Television series is available on DVD. Receiving strong critical acclaim at the time of broadcast, Anglia at War remains a television classic, a story of how ordinary people lived through an extraordinary time. Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen Running Time: 500  minutes approximately STEREO, PAL, Region Code 0   £24.99 + £4.50 Royal Mail first class postage & packaging