Bygone Newark and District Video

Local people -- and streets, fashions, railways and vehicles -- are seen in a fascinating selection of archive films, slides and photographs fromthe 1920s to the 1970s.

Highlights include “A Market Town” a wartime film commissioned by the British Council from British Gaumont, reputedly to help introduce American GIs to Britain.

Hundreds of Newark people and farming folk are seen on Market Day. We thank the British Council for permission to use it.

Local families may see familiar faces in the Pageant of 1936 and the Sunday School Treat Days of the nineteen-fifties. Two great pre-war Newark characters, the “King and Queen of Carnival” are seen once more.

We tour the town in colour in the early 1970s and we see historic steam trains and railway artefacts at and around Northgate Station.

The programme also includes glimpses of Southwell, Sutton on Trent, Averham, and Farndon and lasts 70 minutes altogether.

Produced, narrated and set to music by Andrew Blow.