A Night on the Tiles

A Night on the TilesA collection of films on tiles and tile making, and bathroom ceramics. The collection starts with an informative and amusing history of the WC The Inconvenience. Then we have a complete new digitised version of the 1929 Twyfords film followed by a 1960s film The Right Choice made at Armitage Shanks. The Modern World of Tiling looks at ceramics in public mosaic murals and modern tile production. We go through the history of tile making through the ages

the special occasions

personal correspondence and diary entries are brought to life by actors to give his true “inside story”

with personal reminiscences of the film's star Alec Guinness by local people involved and the coverage of the filmmaking in the local press

The Sixties saw continued change in the Potteries

presented by Robert Cartwright

and gives historical information about the North Staffordshire coalfield and individual collieries

There is an update for the current plans for restoring and preserving a number of our bottle ovens/kilns in the Longton area with funding from the Heritage Action Zone

family members and friends of the men lost – and tributes to the rescue team

and was used by the Village as a screening event and fundraiser as a DVD

We recall the Arnold Bennett Centenary in 1967

This documentary captures the memories of Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire's Caribbean Community - who tell they stories in their own words

Part 2 follows the route from Cheddleton to Uttoxeter and its seven stations