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Canterbury Newsreel 1936

Highlights from Ave Mater Angliae 1936 produced by Sydney Bligh.

Highlights from Sydney Bligh’s ‘Ave Mater Angliae 1935,’ a newsreel of interesting events in and around Canterbury.

This was a gala event in 1988 at the Cannon Cinema in Canterbury to celebrate the opening of the second screen.

Canterbury West Station in the 1980s. Alan Stingemore was a keen amateur filmmaker who had a particular interest in railways and cinemas.

Canterbury Army Cadets at Simon Langton Boy’s School in the 1950s.

Shot in Canterbury during the Festival of Britain in 1951. In the background can be seen the site for the Fire Station and the Police Station.

The Dane John monument in Canterbury decorated for the Queen’s Coronation in 1953.

Shots of both The Friars and the Central Picture Theatre in Canterbury in around 1947.

This film dating from around 1946 was made by John McCallum, a schoolboy at St Edmunds in Canterbury at the time.