Archive FilmsYou are in: Wiltshire > History > Archive Films Rare cine footage, Swindon Film Unit productions and archive BBC TV clips featuring Swindon over the last 70 years.  Concluding our collection of vintage video clips of Swindon in the 50s and 60s.  Watch cine footage from when Swindon's most famous lost building once stood proud in Regent Street.  View a TV report from 1972 when the 'seventh most feared road junction in Britain' opened!  In 1969, 37 years ago today, Swindon Town celebrated their League Cup win - Watch their homecoming  BBC Children’s Newsreel witnesses the last steam locomotive to be made in Britain.  Points West film the process of turning gunpowder into a night to remember.  An attempt to unearth the inner secrets of Silbury Hill is shown on BBC TV.  The Siren of Swindon returns to her home town and meets up with an old sparring partner!  See how over the years Points West has recorded some of the West’s snowiest and wettest winters.  In 1969 broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby visited Steeple Ashton to learn its Best Kept Village secret. You are in: Wiltshire > History > Archive Films |
