List of film at Surrey History Centre

• Hersham Makes Merry, 1935 (13 minutes) (reference F/1). View film clips from the Clifford Spain newsreel collection on the Screen Archive South East website
• Molesey Regatta, 1921 (3 minutes) (reference F/2)
• Declaration of the Poll and Election at Chertsey Town Hall, 1931 (2 minutes) (reference F/3). Discover more about Clifford Spain and his films on the Screen Archive South East website
• The Manufacturing of Vulcanised Fibre, [Shalford], circa 1930s (8 minutes) (reference F/4)
• Ploughing Match, Chertsey, 1922 (1 minute) (reference F/5)
• Emberton Family Life, [Chobham], late 1930s (15 minutes) (reference F/6). View a clip of Emberton Family Life on the Screen Archive South East website
• Old Surrey Water Mills, 1962 to 1963 (36 minutes) (reference F/7). View extracts of F/7 on the Screen Archive South East website.
• Reed's School for Boys, [Cobham] and Reed's School for Girls, [Dogmersfield, near Basingstoke, Hants], circa 1948 to 1954 (18 minutes) (reference F/8). View Reed's School for Girls on the Screen Archive South East website.
• Reigate Borough Carnivals, 1926 and 1927 (20 minutes) (reference F/9). View a clip of F/9 on the Screen Archive South East website
• A Year at Claygate [School], circa 1966 (20 minutes) (reference F/10). View F/10 on the Screen Archive South East website.
• The Dennis Factory and their Products and Fire Engine Tour, [Guildford and Haslemere], circa 1968 (29 minutes) (reference F/11)
• Emergency Fire Fighting Equipment and Appliances, Fire Service Staff College, Wotton, Surrey, 1953 (7 minutes) (reference F/12)
• Royal Surrey County Hospital, 'What the Brownies Saw', [Guildford], circa 1936 (16 minutes) (reference F/13)
• Church Parade, [Godalming], circa 1913 and Presentation of Ambulance to the Red Cross, [Godalming], 1917 (5 minutes) (reference F/14). View a clip of F/14 on the Screen Archive South East website
• Leatherhead Floods, circa 1969 (3 minutes) (reference F/15)
• Leatherhead War Time newsreels, circa 1940 to 1945 (57 minutes) (reference F/16). View a clip of F/16 on the Screen Archive South East website
• Fire at a school in Surrey (Royal Grammar School, Guildford), 1961 (2 minutes) (reference F/17)
• 'Maxicuts' [lathes] by Drummond Bros., [Guildford], circa 1958 to 1962 (12 minutes) (reference F/18)
• Camp School, [Sheephatch, Tilford], circa 1950 to 1951 (12 minutes) (reference F/19). View a clip of F/19 on the Screen Archive South East website
• Start a Land Club [Reigate], 1942 (8.5 minutes) (reference F/20). View F/20 on the British Film Institute player
• The Southern Railway Servants' Orphanage, [Woking], 1928 to circa 1952 (59 minutes) (reference F/21). Discover more about film for the Southern Railway Servant's Orphanage on the Screen Archive South East website
• Rees Plant Department, Move to Old Woking, 1963 (15 minutes) (reference F/22)
• Civilians in Uniform, [Leatherhead and District], circa 1946 (24 minutes) (reference F/23). View F/23 on the British Film Institute player
• Gowlland Family in War Time, [Croydon, Elstead and West Sussex], 1943 to 1946 (24 minutes) (reference F/24). Find out more about the Gowlland family and their films on the Screen Archive South East website
• Claygate Flower Show, 1952 (10 minutes) (reference F/25)
• The Staley family in Frensham, 1933 (7 minutes) (reference F/26). Find out more about the Staley family and their films on the Screen Archive South East website
• Horley Coronation Fete, 1953 (14 minutes) (reference F/27). View F/27 on the British Film Institute player
• Nanhurst [London County Council Nursery School, near Cranleigh], circa 1946 (15 minutes) (reference F/28)
• Rifle Shooting Contest at Bisley, 1928 to 1934 (5 minutes) (reference F/29)
• The Pageant of Farnham Castle, 1950 (6 minutes) (reference F/30). View F/30 on the Screen Archive South East website.
• Surrey Fire Brigade headquarters building developments, Reigate, circa 1953 (5 minutes) (reference F/31)
• Surrey Pentacross, Oxted, 1966 (18 minutes) (reference F/32)
• Victim of Progress [The River Wandle], 1962 (12 minutes) (reference F/33)
• Surrey County Council Garden Party, 1963 (11 minutes) (reference F/34)
• Fan Court Preparatory School for Boys, [Chertsey], circa 1930s (14 minutes) (reference F/35)
• Fan Court [Chertsey], 1952 to 1955 (18 minutes) (reference F/36)
• Claremont School for Girls, [Esher], circa 1930s (17 minutes) (reference F/37)
• Murray House, Ottershaw [Botleys Park Hospital, Chertsey], 1976 (16 minutes) (reference F/38)
• Alan Wardle films, 1960s - Knaphill Primary School and carnivals; laying of the foundation stone of the Yvonne Arnaud theatre, Guildford (116 minutes) (reference F/39)
• Everybody's Business [Fire Service training film], circa 1940 to 1945 (13 minutes) (reference F/40)
• Windmill Press at Kingswood, circa 1957 (25 minutes) (reference F/41A); Learning in Slow Motion, Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, circa 1959 (31 minutes) (reference F/41B)
• Thames Ditton Village fairs, 1963 and 1964 (reference F/42). View F/42 on the Screen Archive South East website.
• Walton's March for Victory, 1941 (reference F/43). View F/43 on the British Film Institute player
• Women War Workers in Shackleford, undated [circa 1917] (reference F/44). View F/44 on the British Film Institute player or on the Screen Archive South West website.
• St Nicholas, Thames Ditton: church events, 1950s (reference F/45)
• Walton on the Hill Pageant: 30th anniversary celebrations, 1969 to 1998 and Pageant, 1999 (reference F/46)
• Muller-Rowland family of Horsell, circa 1925 to ?1940s (reference F/47)
• The opening of the M2 Motorway (Kent) construction and opening ceremony, undated [1960s] (reference F/48)
• Surrey films from the Wessex Sound and Film Archive: Farnham Anti-Aircraft Battalion training, 1940; Basingstoke and Guildford in steam, circa 1968; The changing face of Farnham, 1968; English Rose III, 1967; Evans family outing to Frensham, 1940s; Evans family attending the opening of Bourne Hall, Ewell, circa 1969 (reference F/49). View part of the compilation featuring Farnham Anti-Aircraft Battalion training, 1940, on the British Film Institute Player
• Surrey Archaeological Society 150th Anniversary exhibition, 2004: compilation video featuring A visit to Bottings Mill, Chilworth, 1990; Alan Paine Knitwear factory, Godalming, 1990; and the manufacture of Vulcanised Fibre, Shalford, circa 1930s (see F/4 for full version). (15 minutes) (reference F/50)
• 'In Farm and Field through all the Shire', Surrey History Centre Rural Life exhibition, 2002: compilation video featuring extracts from Church Parade at Godalming, circa 1913 (see F/14); Cecil Hepworth films Explosion of a Motor Car, 1900; Alice in Wonderland, 1903; A Day in the Hay-fields, 1904; Clifford Spain extracts Walton, Hersham and Oatlands Cottage Hospital Garden Fete, circa 1932; The Capitol's Jubilee Gazette, Hersham Makes Merry, 6 May 1935, (see F/1). (10 minutes) (reference F/51). View part of the compilation featuring Alice in Wonderland, 1903, on the British Film Institute Player and Clifford Spain extracts of Walton, Hersham and Oatlands Cottage Hospital Garden Fete, circa 1932, on the Screen Archive South East website
• 'Race for the Prize', Surrey in the 1950s: Surrey History Centre exhibition compilation video featuring Festival of Britain, 1951; Coronation Day in Godalming, 1953; Claygate Flower Show, 1952; Claygate Coronation Celebrations, 1953; Surrey Fire Brigade Display at Reigate, 1955; Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment; Territorial Army (TA) Centenary Year, 1959. (20 minutes) (reference F/52). View part of the compilation including Claygate Coronation Celebrations 1953 on the British Film Institute player
• 'Surrey on Film: Moving images of the county in the 20th Century', promotional South East Film and Video Archive (SEFVA; now Screen Archive South East) compilation video with titles and sound, featuring Cecil Hepworth extracts Explosion of a Motor Car, 1900, Alice in Wonderland, 1903, A Day in the Hay-Fields, 1904; Hersham Makes Merry, Walton on Thames, 1935; Hersham and Oatlands Cottage Hospital Garden Fete, circa 1932; and Church Parade, Godalming, 1911. (10 minutes, repeating). (reference F/53). View part of the compilation featuring Alice in Wonderland, 1903, on the British Film Institute Player
• SEFVA (now Screen Archive South East) compilation video (mute) featuring Cecil Hepworth film extracts How it feels to be run over, 1900 and A Day in the Hay-Fields, 1904; Robert Paul's Epsom Derby, circa 1898; Church Parade, Godalming, 1911 and Presentation of a Red Cross Ambulance, 1917; Hersham and Oatlands Cottage Hospital Garden Fete, circa 1932; What the Brownies Saw, circa 1936; Clifford Spain extracts from Fire Brigade competition demonstration at Walton Recreation Ground, 1932, Hersham Makes Merry, Walton on Thames, 1935 and Coronation Gazette, Weybridge, 1935; Leatherhead Newsreels, 1940s; May Day celebrations at ?Claygate School, 1970s (45 minutes) (reference F/54)
• 'Cinema in Walton on Thames' (produced by SEFVA - now Screen Archive South East - and Elmbridge Museum, 1994), featuring extracts from Cecil Hepworth and Clifford Spain films from Elmbridge Museum, the National Film Archive and Television Archive, including Hepworth's Explosion of a Motor Car, 1900, Alice in Wonderland, 1903, A Day in the Hay-Fields, 1904, Rescued by Rover, 1905; Spain's Hersham and Oatlands Cottage Hospital Garden Fete, circa 1932, Scenes at Walton Inter-Works River Gala, 1934, Jubilee Gazette, 1935 and Hersham Makes Merry, Walton on Thames, 1935 (mute, 30 minutes) (reference F/55)
• Godalming and Guildford films (used by SEFVA - now Screen Archive South East - for Godalming Film Show, 2000), featuring extracts from Church Parade, 1911 (see F/14), Mr Fudger of Godalming Picture Palace newsreels, circa 1912, Women War Workers, Shackleford, circa 1917 (see F/44), Opening of the Philips Titanic Memorial, Godalming, 1913, Presentation of a Red Cross Ambulance, 1917 (See F/14), Godalming Carnival, 1924, What the Brownies Saw, 1936 (See F/13), Gowlland Family in War Time, 1940s (see F/24), and Start a Land Club [Reigate], 1942 (see F/20) (60 minutes) (reference F/56)
• Woking Whirl, 1969 and 1970 carnivals (35 minutes) (reference F/57)
• 4 films: /1 - Surrey Scenes, 1940 to 1942 (Box Hill, Esher, Oxshott, Chertsey and Hampton Court); Surrey Scenes, circa 1949 (Cuddington, Effingham, Ripley, Weston Green and Heathside); /2 - Mopping up at Molesey, 1968 Floods; /3 – Demolition of Friary Brewery, Guildford, circa 1960 to 1961; Construction of Guildford Cathedral, early 1960s; Guildford Scenes, early 1960s; Guildford Floods, 1968; /4 – Clandon Home Guard: Drills and Stand Down, 1944 (85 minutes total) (reference F/58). View F/58/4 on the British Film Institute player
• BBC's Blue Peter handing over Christmas presents and a puppy to Woking Grange [Southern Railway Servants' Orphanage, Woking], circa 1965 to 1966 (9 minutes) (reference F/59)
• Guildford Cathedral: Archbishop Lays the Foundation Stone, 22 Jul 1936 (3 minutes) (reference F/60)
• The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment films: /1 - Tropical Unit, Khartoum, circa 1937 (3 minutes); /2 - 3rd Battalion, regimental events (Devon, Surrey, Sussex and Belgium, The Netherlands), 1958 to 1961 (45 minutes); /3 - 3rd Battalion Tercentenary Year, Guildford and visit to Belgium, exercises in Devon, 1961 (32 minutes); /4 - 3rd Battalion, memorial visits to Belgium and the Netherlands, camp in Devon, circa 1961 (9 minutes); /5 - Presentation of the Colours, Surrey, circa 1965 (15 minutes); /6 - Brigade Skills, bombsite exercise, Eastbourne, circa 1959 (4 minutes); /7 - 6th Battalion Centenary Parade, annual camp, Surrey, late 1950s to early 1960s (17 minutes); /8 - Presenting the colours, ?Guildford, annual camp, Eastbourne, circa 1964 (17 minutes) (Total: 2 hours 25 minutes) (reference F/61)
• Fraser family films, Surrey and worldwide, (DVD 1 - 2 hours 13 minutes, DVD 2 - 2 hours 56 minutes) (to be catalogued) (reference F/62)
• The Stovold family at Lydling and Cross Farms, Shackleford, 1953 (14 minutes) (reference F/63)
• 'Long Grove Entertainment': concerts at Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, 1986 (39 minutes) (reference F/64)
• Films of the Surrey Regiments, 1930s to 1961 from the Imperial War Museum: /1 - Landings on Sword Beach, D-Day, [6 June 1944], including Sgt 'Jim' Cresswell of the East Surrey Regiment (9 minutes); /2 - Troops in Burma (scenes on the Irrawaddy River) including -/3 - officers of the East Surrey Regiment, 1942 (10 minutes); Parade of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), in ?Alexandria, Egypt, circa 1935 (11 minutes); /4 - Trooping the Colour: 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment in Commemoration of the Tercentenary of the regiment, 1661 to 1961, 1961 (12 minutes) (reference F/65)
• Rope making at Shere Museum: part of documentary series 21st Century Endangered Arts, featuring 6 films of rural crafts, including: charcoal burning at West Dean; West Sussex Guild of Spinner Weavers and Dyers, Ditchling; renovation of a Hampshire wagon wheel; The Fontridge Printing Press; and icon writing by Benedictine monks at Alton Abbey, 2006. (48 minutes) (reference F/66)
• Scenes of Horley and Gatwick Airport, 1950s to 1960s (3 minutes) (reference F/67)
• Spurgeons Orphanage, Reigate, London and Kent, undated [1940s] (25 minutes) (reference F/68)
• Ockenden International refugee films – compilations (reference F/69), comprising:
• Ockenden International, formerly The Ockenden Venture and other refugee charities: compilation DVD of 16 promotional films, 1950s to 1960s (133 minutes) (reference F/69/1)
• Ockenden International, formerly The Ockenden Venture: compilation DVD of 11 promotional films, 1959 to 1980 (131 minutes) (reference F/69/2)
• Ockenden International, formerly The Ockenden Venture: compilation DVD of 12 promotional films,1959 to 1980 (70 minutes) (reference F/69/3)
• Ockenden International, formerly The Ockenden Venture: promotional film about work with Ugandan, Cambodian and Sudanese refugees, 2005 (30 minutes) (reference F/69/4)
• 'Sharing Till It Hurts', Thames Television documentary about Ockenden International, formerly The Ockenden Venture, 1980 (40 minutes) (reference F/69/5)
• 'Ockenden Showreel 1': DVD produced for Surrey History Centre's 'The Vision' project, 2009, containing excerpts from: 'Bickerton Grange', Wetherby, 1965; 'Yangzom and Tibetan students at Keffolds', 1964; 'Suffer the Little Children', British Pathé newsreel, 1958; 'No Man is an Island', World Refugee Year film, 1959 (30 minutes) (reference F/69/6)
• 'Ockenden Showreel 2': DVD produced for Surrey History Centre's 'The Vision' project, 2009 (8 minutes) (reference F/69/7)
• Ockenden International, formerly The Ockenden Venture: BBC documentary 'The Airmail Orphan (Vietnamese orphan, Viktoria Cowley), 2010 (20 minutes) (reference F/69/8)
• 'Ockenden showreel', exhibition version produced for Surrey History Centre's 'The Vision' project (footage as in F/69/7, with stills and footage of 'The Vision' play), 2021 (10 minutes) (reference F/69/9)
• Ockenden International, formerly The Ockenden Venture: promotional film about work in Cambodia, 2001 (30 minutes) (reference F/69/10)
• Arthur Haywood films: FalconWorks, Coulsdon and 1953 Coronation celebrations (To be catalogued) (reference F/70)
• Home Grown Stories: Woking community film (4 minutes) (reference F/71)
• Royal Earlswood Asylum Film Collection – compilation of hospital scenes (approximately 1 hour 20 minutes). Please note this film is uncatalogued & has restricted use (reference F/72)
• F H Godfrey Cine productions: Kingston, Molesey and New Malden, circa 1940s to 1987 (1 hour 50 minutes) (reference F/73)
• Pathe newsreel Downland Village: Shere, circa 1946 (12 minutes) (reference F/74)
• Rowledge is Where We Live, 1958 to 1959 (25 minutes) (reference F/75)
• Unveiling of the Blue Plaque in School Road, Rowledge, Farnham, 2012 (30 minutes) (reference F/76)
• Reigate Carnival, 1976 (12 minutes) (reference F/77)
• Wingrove family Films, Merland House, Banstead (including wartime Bantread), 1936 to 1943 (46 minutes) (reference F/78). View F/78 (part) Banstead Volunteer Services celebrate Armistice Day 1941 on the British Film Institute player
• Blindley Heath Coronation film, 1953 (9 minutes) (reference F/79)
• Willows School, Morden (To be catalogued) (reference F/80)
• The John Cant Collection: publicity film for Surrey County Council Social Services for a respite care scheme in Camberley, 1980s; 'Aigburth' (Surrey County Council home for children with severe learning disabilities, Woking), 1980s; Arts Council of Woking Festival Exhibition, 1986 and 1984; and 'Aspects of Guildford', 1980s (10 minutes) (reference F/81)
• Drummond Brothers Films, 1960s (To be catalogued) (reference F/82)
• Leatherhead Repertory Theatre, 1969 (26 minutes) (reference F/83)
• Weybridge Carnivals, 1982 to 1983 (5.5 minutes) (reference F/84)
• Screen Archive South East compilation 'Surrey Jubilees on film' (44 minutes) (reference F/85)
• Screen Archive South East compilation 'Big Screen News': Surrey in film newsreels, 2009 (55 minutes) (reference F/86)
• BBC South Today feature Historic Baseball Re-enactment at Surrey Sports Park, Guildford, 2011 (2 minutes) (reference F/87)
• St Anne's, Kew 'A Church for All Seasons': record of parish life in 2012 (60 minutes) (reference F/88)
• Westcott First School, Dorking, 1970s to 1980s (To be catalogued) (reference F/89)
• The Constructive Approach (work at the Doreen Firmin Training Centre, St Lawrence's Mental Hospital, Caterham), undated [1960s] (23 minutes) (reference F/90)
• Camberley & District, 1936 to 1938 and 1938 to 1939: People, Places and Events, by John King (1 hour 43 minutes) (reference F/91)
• Lowfield Heath Windmill, Surrey Industrial History Group films (4), and demolition film (1). With notes. (To be catalogued) (reference F/92). View extracts of F/92 on the Screen Archive South East website.
• Voss family films (Coulsdon, Chipstead, Purley and Burpham), 1930 to 1971 (11 minutes) (reference F/93). View extracts of Voss family films on the Screen Archive South East website.
• Films of Oatlands, Weybridge: 1953 Coronation celebrations; St Mary's, Oatlands Centenary, 1962; 1969 Oatlands Parade '69 (53 minutes. 3 films, with notes) (reference F/94)
• 'They Came to a Village', film made by Banstead Art Group, circa 1958 (32 minutes) (reference F/95)
• The Lord Mayor's Air Raid Distress Fund, Leatherhead, 1941 (42 seconds) (reference F/96)
• Foundling Voices – Life at School. Daily life of orphans at the Foundling Hospital, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, 1930s to late 1940s (now Ashlyns School; linked with St Anne's School site, Redhill), (30 minutes) (reference F/98)
• Screen Archive South East compilation of sporting films for Surrey Local History Committee Symposium, 2011 (14 minutes) (reference F/99)
• Ridgway and Lawrence family films, Sunbury, Staines and Laleham, 1950s to 1980s. 3 DVDs (reference F/100)
• British Muslim Soldiers, 2016 - BBC documentary about the restoration of the Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell, as Woking Peace Garden (40 minutes) (reference F/101)

You can also see a catalogue of selected films from the Screen Archive South East collection