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On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

A momentous act of self sacrifice is caught on camera - Emily Davison is trampled by the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

Stunning views from the boundary of the 1921 Australian touring team's first match.

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

An aeronautical accident is caught on camera at a Parisian 'Aéro-Parc'.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

The annual mop fair in Stratford-Upon-Avon, including the roasting of an ox.

Colonial troops greet London's new Lord Mayor in a patriotic wartime ceremony.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Women cricketers slog their male counterparts to the boundary in this fixture between Cobham Ladies and Manor Athletic in Richmond.

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.