Chapter 8: Audiovisual items

 

8.1 Films | 8.2 Videotapes | 8.3 Tape-recordings

There are copies of all the films listed available on videotape. Appointments must be made to view these videos.

Marylebone

  • Visit of King George V and Queen Mary to St Marylebone Town Hall in 1935.
    Duration 4 minutes
  • "All on a winter's day".
    Views of St. Marylebone c1950.
    Duration 20 minutes

Paddington

  • 2 films c1960.
    Duration of each c12 minutes
  • Paddington pre-Westway c1960.
    Duration c3 minutes
  • Paddington post-Westway - 2 films c1965.
    Duration of each c10 minutes.
8.2 Videotapes
  • "All on a winter's day".
    Video version of the film listed above.
  • Langham Hotel publicity video, 1990.
8.3 Tape-recordings
  • Two reminiscences of elderly Paddington residents recorded by the Paddington Society, 1960-1961
  • Over 20 interviews with women who worked in domestic service in Westminster between the wars (part of a project begun in 1997)
  • Interviews with two former Metropolitan policemen serving at Cannon Row police station, c1920s-1940s

See Chapter 21: Businesses for details of films in the deposited business archives of Liberty's, and Bishop and Sons, furniture removers.