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East Anglian Film Archive - Hertfordshire

The films are available to view at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies by appointment. They range from a few seconds to an hour, covering the early 1900s onwards. Please contact us for more details on 01438 737333.

The image above is a scene from Dream of Toyland by pioneer, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, St Albans, 1907. Ref 006.


001 Film Studios in Hertfordshire (various, 1981)
002 New Town From Old (Hemel Hempstead, no date)
003 Letchworth and Hemel Hempstead (various, 1952)
004 Watford Becomes a Borough (1922)
005 Royal Visit to letchworth & Sir Ebenezer Howard (early 1940s; 1928)
006 Five Short Films (various, 1907 - c1925
a) Dream of Toyland (St Albans, 1907)
b) St Albans Abbey (date unknown)
c) In Old St Albans (date unknown)
d) Freedom of the City (date unknown)
e) Topical Budget ; Funeral of the crew of the Zeppelin shot down over Cuffley (Potters Bar, 1916)
007 Views of Hatfield (1952)
008 Stevenage - The First New Town (1971)
009 Planned Town (Welwyn Garden City, 1946)
010 Libraries and the Community (Loughborough, 1977)
011 Coronation Celebrations (Royston, 1937)
012 Elizabeth II Coronation Celebration (Royston, 1953)
013 So this is England (various, 1921)
014 Heritage (Bushey, 1948)
015 The Shepherd and his Flock (Hitchin, 1941)
016 Warship Week Parade (Hitchin, 1942)
017 Aladdin (Hitchin, 1941)
018 Hertfordshire Churches (various, date unknown)
019 Our Hertfordshire Heritage (various, 1955)
020 A Naturalist in Hertfordshire (various, date unknown)
021 Ploughing by steam (various, date unknown)
022 Ashwell (1948)
023 George VI Coronation Celebrations (Ashwell, 1937)
024 Hidden Villages of Hertfordshire (various, date unknown)
025 1930s scenes (various, 1933 and 1936)
026 Jack Oldings Ltd (Hatfield, date unknown)
027 Last harvest, fairlands Valley (Stevenage, 1968 - 70?)
028 Afloat for Charity (Stevenage, date unknown
029 St Albans; Here and There (various, 1954)
030 Royal Visit to Hitchin Youth Centre (Hitchin, 1969)
031 Jubilee Celebrations at Elstree (Elstree, 1935)
032 Opening of Cheshunt Grammar School (1938)
033 Camera and Cinematography (Cheshunt, 1954)
034 Sports; Cheshunt Grammar 21st Anniversary (1958)
035 Thursday Night (after school activities, Cheshunt, 1965)
036 News from France (unknown & Paris, date unknown)
038 Bernard Shaw's Village (Ayot St Lawrence, late 1940s)
039 Georgian Background (unknown, date unknown)
040 Royal Visit to Letchworth (early 1940s)
041 Hitchin Market (1956)

043 Hertfordshire Film Preservation Project (various, various 1907 - 1955)
1) St Albans (1920s)
2) Ashwell (1948)
3) Hertfordshire Scenes (1949 - 1955)
4) Great Northern Railway and Great North Road (Stevenage, c1930)
5) Train arriving at a station (Welwyn Garden City, 1939)
6) Arrival of Evacuees (Welwyn Garden City, 1939)
7) Funeral of Zeppelin Crew (Potters Bar 1916; also on 006)
8) Farming (Stevenage, c1930s)
9) Local Characters (Cheshunt, 1933 - 1936)
10) A Country Outing (Cheshunt, 1936)
11) Fair, Stevenage, c1930s)
12) August bank Holiday Fete at the Campus (Weleyn Garden City, 1928)
13) Coronation celebrations at Royston (1937, also on tape 011)
14) George VI Coronation Celebrations (Ashwell, 1937, also on 023)
15)Dream of Toyland (St Albans, 1907, also on 006)

044 St Albans Millenary Pageant (1948)
045 Pancake Race (Stevenage, 1968)
046 Disappearing Britain (? and Hemel Hemsptead, 1959 - 1960)
047 City of St Alban: and the Forgotten City of Verulamium (date unknown)
048 St Albans Abbey (date unknown)
049 Excavations and St Albans; Motoracing (St Albans and unknown, 1956)
051 New Towns Act (Stevenage, 1966)
052 Procession along Welwyn High Street (c1920)
066 Buntingford (1922)
067 A Day in St Albans (1963)
068 Village Peepshow (Wheathamspstead, date unknown)
069 Festival Year (Wheathampstead, 1951)
070 Your salad (Wheathampstead, 1951
071 The Road (Wheathampstead, 1963 - 1964)
072 Hatfield Civic Week (1965)
074 Hertfordshire County Day 9hertford, 1968)
075 The Buntingford Railway Line (Various, 1963)
076 Morris Men (Berkhamsted, 1951 or 52)
077 Coronation Celebration (Harpenden, 1937)
078 Our Village in 1948 (Wheathampsted)
079 Bypass (various, Stevenage, date unknown)
080 Hatfield (1952, housing, 1952)
083 Home of Your Own (Hemel Hempstead, 1951)
085 Our Village (Wheathampstead, 1960s - 70s)
087 Model of a Multi-Story Car park (unknown, 1969)
088 Royal Visit to St Albans (1961)
089 398th Bomb Group (Nuthampstead; bombing raids, Feb - May 1945, shot by Len Strettfield)

Miscellaneous
"Old Trades" Albert Springate, Blacksmith of Dane End by Spider Webb Films (David Evans) 2000 (23 mins)



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