A 1967 film set in Aberystwyth which captures the spirit of the town’s promenade culture is among 600 newly digitised films made available online this month.

The British Film Institute has scoured the UK’s national and regional film and TV archives for the launch of the Britain on Film: Coast and Sea online collection.

The collection, which ranges from 1898 to 2000, has content spanning the whole of the UK and is available at the click of a button on BFI Player via an interactive map.

One video, shot in the late ’60s by Victor H Williams of Trefechan, Aberystwyth, follows his family, who had moved around the UK with him for his work as a cartographer, as they returned to his hometown for a summer holiday in a touring caravan.

Mr Williams became a cartographer with the Forestry Commission and moved with his family from Wales to Edinburgh in 1957, and then to Basingstoke in 1966.

His wife Shirley, who was from London, but moved to Dorset with her parents at the end of the Second World War, came to Aberystwyth in the 1950s to work as a cytologist at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station — now IBERS — at Plas Gogerddan.

Victor – who eventually retired to Bow Street - returned to his roots in 1967 for a holiday, travelling from Basingstoke in a touring caravan.

His daughters, Carys and Eirwen, certainly made the most of the trampolines installed on North Beach.

There were donkey rides on the prom to follow, the route passing the now-demolished King’s Hall, the mini dodgem-type cars, and family cricket at what is now the Aberystwyth Holiday Village, near Penparcau.

To watch Mr Williams’ video, and many other from around Wales and the UK, visit www.player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film.