Residents of the Cleveland market town of Stockton High Street smile for the camera on market day.

Wake Up, Helsinki! (1939)
Impressionistic short documentary of a Helsinki morning at the end of 1930s with a poetic narration.

Look at Life: Shopping by the Ton (1960)
A visit to Smithfield Market, Covent Garden and Billingsgate, at their busiest time, the early morning.

Look at Life: Market Place (1959)
A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets.

Fishball Revolution (NaN)
An asylum seeker from Hong Kong builds a new life for himself in Glasgow, using his passion for street food to maintain his cultural identity.

Chop Thye Bee (2021)
An intimate portrait of an inter-generational family as they bid farewell to the common ground that binds them together.

The London Nobody Knows (1968)
Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.

The Coast of Commerce (1962)
Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

Enchanting Bournemouth (1961)
Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, competing with cheaper foreign holidays and offering a variety of transportation options.

Wolverhampton into the Seventies (1970)
Bricks and mortar makes way for concrete and reinforced steel as Wolverhampton sweeps the past aside in a modernist town planning utopia.

Meet the Mayor (1968)
A new piazza proposed for Leicester market is met by public opposition. This is a city described by one local historian as unromantic, so what do the developers expect?

Bubble (2020)
A tropical fish shop in the East End of London, the last of what used to be many. Tiny, watery dramas inside fish tanks accompany the thoughts of local fish-keepers, while father and son Big Tel and Little Tel work to keep the shop alive.

Cattle Market in Derry (1902)
Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

Ride on the Tram Car through Belfast (1901)
In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.