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Primetime Video has announced its new Carrington DVD today. It features this year's 60th Anniversary event, and some of the machines on show including the fairground and model sections, but also looks back to the very first event in 1959, and other key years in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. These include main ring parades and performances by aircraft and motor cycle teams, some of the games that used to be played in the ring, including people versus steam tug-of-wars, barrel rolling by engines and pram races, as well as the legendary piano-smashing competition. A unique look at this historic event, and its traditions...

Trevor Kerfoot is an enthusiast for the farming of days gone by. He still uses vintage tractors and tools, as well as following the traditions of how to live and work on the land. This new two DVD set has been 3 years in the making and follows Trevor and some of his friends through the year as they work a ‘yesteryear farm’. In this first DVD we join him in the spring and early  summer as he uses Fordson and other vintage and early classic tractors and implements to prepare the land, then to drill barley, oats and fodder...

REUNION OF GIANTS - The Official Lancaster UK Tour Documentary It has been 50 years since two Avro Lancaster bombers flew side by side. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Avro Lancaster, VeRA, flew from Hamilton, Ontario to meet her British counterpart, Thumper - the only other surviving flight worthy Lancaster bomber in the world - the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's (BBMF) Lancaster in England. REUNION OF GIANTS documents the historic journey across the Atlantic to the UK and the whole visit is seen as it unfolds through the eyes of the flight crews, veterans, friends and family.  This much anticipated documentary includes first-hand accounts from...

Volume Seven, which completes the Lincolnshire A Century on Film series, covers the last thirty years of the Twentieth Century, a period which saw the heyday of traditional cine photography, followed by its rapid decline as video and digital systems became increasingly popular.  Another technological change was the increasing use of computers, though the latest thing in the 1970s now seems comically antiquated. Food production was also becoming increasingly mechanised.  We see pork pies and Stilton cheese being made, and visit a Potato Crisp factory in Scunthorpe.  But for many, the most notable development of this era was the building of the...

Due out this October is the last DVD in our major new local history series.  Volume Seven covers the last three decades of the Twentieth Century, a period which saw the rapid decline of photographic film as video and digital systems became increasingly popular.  However, although traditional methods were waning, film had not yet been totally abandoned.  The most recent footage held by LFA dates from 1995. The success of this ambitious and long-running project, now completed by the release of Volume Seven, is largely due to the dedication and long-term commitment of its two principal architects, Steve White and Alan...