In 1939, London was the heart of the British Empire. A year later, it was on the frontline. As pilots duelled in the skies above, the city prepared for the gathering storm'
For the first time, unseen footage from The British Transport Films unit archive shows London railways in fabulous colour
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 to escape imprisonment. The women of East Anglia rose to every challenge during the two world wars, from working the land to firefighting. For the first time their story is told, including: The Norwich Ladies Fire Brigade in 1915, the Land Army in Essex and Norfolk, barrage balloon operators at Cardington, Suffolk nurses from the mobile hospital unit and Barbara Meadows - the Cambridgeshire billeting officer who took the job the men refused
Life as it used to be through sixty years of archive film, including herring fleets, opening the Haven Bridge and Tommy Cooper on the pier
In 1959, 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?
December 1941: The United States of America enters WWII. Thousands of young Americans are drafted into the Army Air Force and sent to England. Using airmen's memoirs and diaries and dramatic original colour film, the story of the Mighty Eighth is told as never before
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 at Norwich, Closure of the M&GN Railway, Harwich, Lowestoft, Felixstowe and the Cromer Carnival
It is 1942. The UK has survived the blitz and has won the Battle of Britain. Now, the first American airmen arrive to help take the war to Hitler in Europe. Using many now forgotten airfields, these visitors from across the Atlantic brought not just their bravery but many cultural changes with them.
Step back into the 1950s and '60s and see: Bedford in the early 60s, Luton, Dunstable and the motor trade, the changing face of Leighton Buzzard, RAF Sharnbrook and Woburn Abbey
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