Long before many of us stopped work for the festive period this year, an army of workers that went to work on Christmas Day 1949 was filmed by the BBC. Alongside emergency service workers, traffic ...
“All over the country, lettering is being brightened, bulbs replaced, wiring renewed and soon our big cities will be as bright as they were in 1939." Bomb-scarred London prepares to switch on the ...
In a London still visibly recovering from the effects of World War 1, an intrepid BBC news team set off from Alexandra Palace to spend the day visiting the capital's main attractions and speaking to ...