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RPM: Swindon

In 1984 the BBC West regional TV programme RPM devoted a show to Swindon. Watch online.

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Rare cine footage, Swindon Film Unit productions and archive BBC TV clips featuring Swindon and Wiltshire over the years.

Andy Partridge on RPM

Watch 80s archive TV clips of XTC's Andy Partridge touring Swindon and talking of giving up gigging.

Day Out: Wiltshire

A collection of 30 min BBC West TV programmes from the late 70s/early 80s featuring Wiltshire towns.

Lost Harold Fleming footage found

View recently discovered 100-year-old footage of legendary Swindon Town FC player Harold Fleming.

Let Me Tell You: Swindon

Watch a programme from 1967, which went out onto the streets to ask locals about life in Swindon.

'Six Days to Saturday'

Watch a film made in 1963 about Swindon Town F.C. by the legendary film director John Boorman.

'Requiem for a Railway'

Watch three BBC documentaries about Swindon's Railway Works, prior and up to the closure in 1986.

'Jobs on the Line'

Watch a BBC West documentary from 1982 about the threat to the future of Swindon's Railway Works.

Brown's Towns: Swindon

We delved into the BBC archives and found a TV programme made in 1973, all about Swindon. Watch now.

Swindon on film

View fascinating cine-camera footage of Swindon taken in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

Video: Swindon in 1960

View another collection of vintage Swindon video clips which show life in the town in 1960.

Video: 60s Old Town and canal

Watch yet more vintage footage of Swindon in the 50s and 60s, including the long-since closed canal.

Video: 60s Swindon town centre

Continuing our collection of vintage video clips of Swindon in days gone by.

More Archive Films

View more Rare cine footage and archive BBC TV clips showing Wiltshire over the last 50 years.

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