Archive selected video and film clips about Bristol & The West Country This Website contains links to other web sites. We cannot be held responsible in any way for the content or other Internet sources. BBC Points West Archive Film on Demand Access to clips from the BBC's regional news archive in Bristol. During November and December 2005, selected video and film clips about Somerset were added to these pages. British Pathe Film Archive Now you are here you can preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. Points West People's Archive The People's Archive looks at how life once was here in the West. We've glimpses of life in the 40s when the milkman served your pint straight from the churn, as well as synchronised swimming at the 1955 Jubilee celebrations in Swindon! HTV Archive News Video The Great Flood 1968 On July 10th 1968, more than 5 inches of rain fell in just 24 hours - Pensford near Bristol took the brunt, 7 people died... see our archive footage. Video from the YouTube website Bristol Brabazon Archive Film Clip Bristol Blenheim Bristol Beaufighter Bristol Boxkite Bristol In The 1920s Archive Film Clip Summer in Bristol BBC Bristol Banksy City Banksy The Best Visit Bristol - Bristol Highlights Bristol Cars of Filton - Bristol Fighter Glass Blowing - Red Wine Glass - Bristol Blue Glass Glass Blowing - Cat - Bristol Blue Glass Glass Blowing - Fish - Bristol Blue Glass Steam Railway at Bristol Docks Embassy powerboat Grand Prix 1974 Bristol Slaver Water Colours - Bristol Docks Three new wind tubines at Avonmouth Bristol Portbury to Portbury Railway Bridge Swing and Balmoral Sailing out Bridge Swing Cumberland Basin Bristol Buses in Bristol in the Early 1980's Bristol Buses in Bristol in the Early 1980's Part Two Archive film-clip Bristol Buses 1964 Bristol Harbourside Festival 2008 ( Video ) SS Great Britain and Matthew of Bristol Clifton Bridge Jump Concorde returns to Bristol Concorde Comes Home BBC Video Nation Short Films About Bristol Real Audio & Film Files - In order to listen to Real Audio & Film files, you must have the Real Player installed on your computer. You can download the Real Player for free at www.real.com Video Nation: Lorna's film Lorna and her toddler son have moved from a flat in a tower block to a new purpose-designed housing development in Bristol city centre but she is not happy. Her previous home in Barton Hill was surrounded by playing fields where she could let her energetic young son run about safely. Her old flat also had lifts making it easier for her as a single mother to carry her son and her shopping home. The new housing zone has no grass play area suitable for children and no separate pavements leaving Lorna to play chicken with cars each time she leaves her flat. She questions why a new estate has failed to give pedestrians priority and is concerned an ambulance or fire engine will not be able to get past parked cars if there was an emergency. Also puzzling is why there are no facilities to recycle waste. More film-clips from the BBC Video Nation section BBC Video Nation Archives BBC Downend crash remembered 50 years on Going back in time As the NHS celebrates its 60th birthday, Bath's Royal United Hospital marks the occassion with a series of events looking back at hospital life in the 1940s. BBC's M4 documentary from 1972 (30mins) In 1972, the opening of the M4 was big news in the West. London was, for the first time by road, less than two hours away. The BBC produced a documentary which you can watch. BBC film SS Great Britain: 1970 part 1 BBC film SS Great Britain: 1970 part 2 There were some tricky moments as salvage experts brought the ss Great Britain back from the Falkland Islands in July 1970. With only inches to spare, the ship was returned to the Jefferies Dock from where she was launched back in 1843. Life inside the Fry's factory Archive Film Fry's chocolate factory archive footage A fascinating film showing life inside the Fry's chocolate factory at Keynsham in its 1930s hey day is being shown publicly in full here on bbc.co.uk/bristol for the first time. The unique insight is courtesy of Bristol film historian Bryan Haynes who holds the 16mm footage in private archives at his home. The factory, now owned by Cadbury's, is set to close in the next few years with a loss of 500 jobs.  BBC Archive Sound Files Real Audio File - In order to listen to Real Audio files, you must have the Real Player installed on your computer. You can download the Real Player for free at www.real.com Risen from the ashes Interviews with Lucy Hunt and Diane Henry St Paul's Church in Southville was all but destroyed by incendiary bombs on the night of Good Friday, 21 April 1941. Remarkably, 300 people sheltering in the crypt below escaped unhurt. Only the four walls of the church were left standing after fire caught hold. It was another seventeen years before the church on Coronation Road in Bristol was rebuilt and re-consecrated on 23 March 1958. There is an impressive crypt under the church and during World War Two a section was specially reinforced for use as an air raid shelter. Bath's Bonekickers makes TV debut Bonekickers, a new series which was written in Bath and filmed around the West, has come to BBC One. Diary of the Great War  A Bristol actor has recorded extracts from his grandfather's World War I diary, to coincide with Remembrance Sunday - and you can listen to it here on bbc.co.uk/bristol