Their Past Your Future

Civil Defence

‘Swaythling ARP & AFS’exercise.

(Harry Thew; 1939; B/W; Silent)

‘Bealing Films, reel 4’Southampton Common.

(Frank Bealing; 1939; Colour; Silent)

‘Scott-Paine films: bomb damage and Home Guard’

Hythe Home Guard. (Hubert Scott-Paine; 1940; B/W; Silent)

Children on the Home Front

‘Winchester Museum film 10258’

Evacuees arrive from Portsmouth. (F G Heathcote-Wride; 1939; B/W; Silent)

‘Charminster Mixed School, Bournemouth’

Various activities. (A W Legg; c1941; B/W & Colour; Silent)

Air Raids

‘Mr Streater’s Film’

building Anderson shelter at Gosport. (Mr Streater; 1939; B/W; Silent)

‘Swaythling ARP & AFS’

Anderson shelter exercise. (Harry Thew; 1939; B/W; Silent)

‘Port of Destiny’

Southampton Docks: Blitz aftermath. (Carlyle Pictures Ltd.; 1946; B/W; Sound)  

‘South Stoneham House’

Black-out precautions and unexploded bomb. (Capt. Wakeford; 1940; Colour; Silent)

War Work and Life on fhe Home Front

‘Spitfire Components’

Construction at Elliotts factory, Newbury.(Hubert Davey Prod.; 1941; B/W; Silent)

‘Activities at St Thomas’ Church, Winchester’

King Alfred Boys’ Club. (W J Prall; 1943; B/W; Silent)

‘Sailor’s Wedding’

Unknown sailor and wartime bride. (W J Prall; 1940; B/W; Silent)

‘Jesty film’

Queue for Civic Cinema at Alresford. (Leslie Jesty; 1944; B/W; Silent)

Rationing

‘Rationing in Britain’

American film. (World Wide Pictures; 1944; B/W; Sound)

‘Charminster Mixed School, Bournemouth’

The boys ‘Dig for Victory’. (A W Legg; c1941; B/W & Colour; Silent)

‘Scenes from Village Life’

Burghclere School dinner. (John Legard; 1947; B/W; Sound)

D-Day (Operation Overlord) 1944

‘Port of Destiny’

Construction of Mulberry Harbours and troop build-up. (Carlyle Pictures Ltd.; 1946; B/W; Sound)  

‘Army Film Unit footage’

D-Day preparations in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. (Crown Copyright; 1944; B/W; Silent)

Victory Celebrations 1945

‘A Pageant of the Years’

Salisbury on VE Day. (Eda Moore; 1945; B/W; Silent)

‘Taken During the War’

Parkstone and Bournemouth on VE Day. (D H Sheppard; 1945; Colour; Silent)

‘Victory Day in Romsey’

Parade in Romsey on VE Day. (Mrs  Turner; 1945; B/W; Silent)

‘Eastleigh Victory Walk’

Sport walking, organised by Tommy Green, to commemorate VE and VJ Days. (Ron Carey; 1945; Colour; Silent)

Post War Reconstruction

‘McGreevy amateur film’

Portsmouth Guildhall devastated by the Blitz. (Tom McGreevy; 1945; B/W; Silent)

‘Mild and Bitter’ & ‘The Builders’

Portsmouth reconstruction in the 1960s. (Don Reynolds, 1961-1963; Colour; Silent)

‘Preen amateur film’

Assembling a Scottwood prefab house at Hythe. (G P Preen; c1946; Colour; Silent)

‘Activities during the Mayoralty of C G Sankey’

The Mayor helps new residents move into a prefab house at Stanmore, Winchester. (Stanley Richardson; 1946; B/W; Silent)