Potteries at War

Potteries at WarTHE POTTERIES AT WAR (2 hours) This video features the best wartime films in the Staffordshire Film Archive in both colour and black and white: The first recruits marching away, public information films, the pottery industry, digging for victory, Trentham Gardens at war, scouts, church parades, a tribute to the Spitfire and to Baskeyfield VC, the aftermath of local bombing raids, working girls at Royal Ordnance Factory at Swynnerton, Auxiliary Fire

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breathe fresh air and enjoy flowers and greenery

there is the original newsreel of June 5th 1925 showing the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Stoke - during which

we are taken on a guided tour of the hospital site in 1988 charting its growth in buildings and services from the mediaeval hospital of St

dozens of small picture houses had opened locally and their numbers grew over the next two decades

this documentary looks at the milestones in the development of the pottery industry over the past century

Ashley Thompson & Chris Dean

which ran along the picturesque shoreline of Rudyard Lake

and many scenes from a film made to celebrate that and shown in 1926

It is also the story of how such a terrible disaster can be turned into something of national pride by the press of the day

They were made as promotional films - and