Introduced by James Cameron
Now and then amateur enthusiasts deliberately turned their cameras on a world around them that they could see was fast disappearing; to them we owe some invaluable records of now-vanished crafts. Sometimes the films were propaganda on behalf of fading enterprises like the commercial canal system - and one of them, today creating a wry sort of nostalgia, shows just what could be had in 1926 for the price of one penny.
Series producer DAVID COLUSON Presented by PAUL JORDAN