ASTLEY: Circus Genius

ASTLEY: Circus GeniusPhilip Astley was a brilliant equestrian performer, one of the many riding masters who were plying their skills up and down the country throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. Many riders had gained their expertise while serving in the army, as indeed was the case with Astley. What marked Astley out from his contemporaries was his uncanny knack of developing and expanding current forms of equestrian entertainment and moulding them into

This is the complete official film of the Pageant - first shown at the Regent Cinema

This collection spans the Second World War and the austerity years up to the end of rationing

Visit Arnold Bennett’s “BURSLEY” for a full hour

Local contact information was added to the end of each film print

we are taken on a guided tour of the hospital site in 1988 charting its growth in buildings and services from the mediaeval hospital of St

opened in 1981 - film of all the work on the scheme to completion

and how it touched many people's lives

plus doctors and other hospital personnel

he crawled to the unmanned gun and - single handedly - held the German advance at bay until he was killed by a direct gun on the gun he was manning

and we get his impressions of New York and places he visited illustrated with archive film

Titanic Overture

Philip Astley was a brilliant equestrian performer