The last stop is Blackpool, as we look at seaside holidays in the 1950s.
In Manchester, he looks at the first films made in the early 1900s.
Melvyn Bragg is in Sheringham in Norfolk to look at the final years of steam railways.
Melvyn Bragg is in Kent to look back at films of rural life from the 1930s.
Reel History of Britain is a 20 part series being shown on BBC Two, presented by Melvyn Bragg and about the history of modern Britain; through the eyes of people who were there. It was shown from 5–30 September 2011. The programme is a social history documentary, charting the course of the twentieth century through archive film, plus interviews and recollections of key events that have taken place in the last one-hundred years, since the advent of moving film. In each episode, Bragg goes to a different place in the UK and shows people film in a 1950s Ministry of Technology mobile cinema, then gauges their reactions and captures them on film.