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Skipton & Craven In The Past
£12.95More than at any time in our past, our towns and cities are undergoing great change, Fortunately in the case of Skipton and the surrounding Craven […]
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Skipton to Carlisle cab Ride and Return
£19.95‘Cab Ride from Skipton to Carlisle’ A new edition of our cab ride along the line. This digitally improved DVD with full commentary (2 hours 16 […]
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Smoke & Steam A Celebration of the Steam Engine Dvd
£14.95What nostalgic images these words bring instantly to mind! In a modern, technological world the ‘Age of Steam’ seems to belong to former, more glorious and […]
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Smoke & Steam In Scotland Dvd
£14.95A tribute to the renaissance in steam operations in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. ‘Scotland for Steam’ runs the advertising and is certainly is! On […]
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Smoke & Steam In The South Dvd
£14.95All steam action from the main lines of the former Great Western Railway and Southern Railway including the Salisbury to Exeter main line, Didcot to Worcester, Didcot to […]
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Smoke & Steam In Wales Dvd
£14.95Wales has one of the largest associations with steam in the British Isles. The narrow gauge railways of the north west are famous for their tiny engines […]
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Smoke & Steam on the Settle & Carlisle Dvd
£14.95‘Settle and Carlisle’ – the words are as evocative to the railway enthusiast as ‘Smoke and Steam’ – put the two together and you have one […]
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Solent Flying with Bristish Pathe
£14.95Rare newsreels from the British Pathe collection with 45 minutes of early attempts in producing flying boats in the Solent area. Factories in Southampton, Cowes and Hamble were all instrumental in developing the newly formed flying machine into a waterborne amphibian. Film of the first launching at Fairey Aviation at Hamble Point in the 1920s and many developments as the decades progressed to the first jet-powered fighter flying boat, the SRA1 and Princess Flying Boat of the early 1950s. We see many scenes of the Schneider Trophy attempts in the Solent at which Britain was leader for many years, retaining the trophy for keeps.
We end with scenes of the flying school at Hamble where pilots were trained for commercial services and the other Solent invention – the hovercraft which was designed by Sir Chistopher Cockerell on the banks of Southampton Water.
45 minutes £14.95
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Somerset & Dorset 7Fs (2-8-0s) DVD
£14.95Most people think of the famous Express Steam Locomotives, such as ‘Flying Scotsman’, ‘Princess Elizabeth’, ‘Mallard’ and so on when asked to describe a steam engine. […]
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Somerset & Dorset Railway Collection Dvd
£14.95The Somerset & Dorset Remembered Here is a vivid reminder of what it was like to travel over that most lamented of cross-country railway lines the Somerset […]
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Southern Steam Surrender
£16.9550th anniversary of Southern Steam in full archive film covering the last weeks of SR steam in 1967.
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SS Great Britain Comes Home
£14.95Exactly 127 years after its launch, the SS Great Britain returns home to her birthplace in Bristol. This film is narrated by Magnus Magnusson and was originally shown […]
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Stafford to Bescot Yard Cab Ride
£14.95Stafford to Bescot Yard and Yard Shunts This interesting cab ride is aboard Class 90 025 starting a crew learning light engine movement to Bescot yard. […]
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STAMFORD
£12.95STAMFORD – England’s Most Famous Stone-built Town A film about the town of Stamford set in the southern-most corner of Lincolnshire with close borders to Rutland, […]
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Steam In The Highlands Dvd
£14.95Steam locomotives have been at home in Scotland for over a century and a half – today they still run over the main lines blending with […]
