Children at the 1935 Battle of Flowers. Picture: British Pathé Ltd

OLD film clips featuring Jersey from as early as 1910 have been unearthed by the video and film archive British Pathé.

Royal visits dating from the 1930s, early Battle of Flowers – when a’ battle’ actually took place and floats were destroyed – the Bouley Bay Hill Climb and honeymooners beating a UK tax deadline are among the items featured.

They can all be found on a special page which media officer Victoria  Spiegelberg has put together on the company’s newly-relaunched website.

Victoria, whose brother lives in Guernsey, explained that they were trying to encourage people throughout Britain to use the site to discover more about their past.

‘Although the site has been available to view for a number of years, it has traditionally been a resource for researchers within the broadcast industry,’ she said. ‘ We have now launched the site properly and we are hoping that people in Jersey will find it of historical interest and significance and perhaps be able to use it as a family history resource to identify family, friends or even themselves.’

British Pathé’s archive dates back to the 1890s, but the company stopped filming in the early 1970s.

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