Topical Budget Company

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.

Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.

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

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

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

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

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

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

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

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.

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

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

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

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

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

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

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

First county cricket match of the season between champions Lancashire and Warwickshire.

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