Six Towns - TUNSTALL. Download version

Six Towns - TUNSTALL. Download versionThis collection of archive films and interviews from Staffordshire Film Archive represents the best examples of Tunstall captured on film from 1910 to the 1970s. We begin in 1960 with the 50th anniversary of Federation and Tunstall introduces itself. In 1910 e see dustmen in the backs of Nashe Peake Street. We hear stories of George Barber, who opened the Picture Palace first cinema in the Potteries in 1909. We see newsreel of the visit of the Prince

In this second collection of Longton films

the pottery industry

Continuing from Pots and Potters – which charts developments in the potters art and industry from Roman times up to the end of the Victorian era

Nearer My God to Thee

The presenters are Mervyn Edwards

We follow the process from first clay to casting at the foundry to final unveiling – celebrating the career of Sir Stan along the way

Courtesy of Wessex Film Archive

and is now keenly sought by collectors

The Mayor's full title of "Lord Mayor" was to be achieved in 1928

Bi-Centenary of the North Staffordshire Infirmary

Most moving are the personal memories of people who witnessed the events of January 1st unfolding

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