Stoke on Film 1950s - Download version

Stoke on Film 1950s - Download versionThis was a period of great change for the Potteries. The 1951 Festival of Britain heralded a new optimism following years of post war austerity. Finally freed from utility regulations, the pottery industry could now produce colourful ware in exciting new designs but faced the end of coal firing, new techniques and corporate mergers and the Burslem School of Art is seen training new designers. The Coronation of 1953 boosted the nations morale and the

A Middleport Wedding

we then chart her career through to retirement in the 1950s - and hear her own recordings of her songs

school hall

during which it became a major leisure destination for the people of the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyme

which brought a colonial flavour to the banks of the rivers Hamps and Manifold

The restoration of the Caldon Canal The annual events of Club Day

All the key events of the day are here - the Youth ‘World Cup’ Final

70 minutes of a wide variety of music and song charting

In 1978 we see the last ever firing of a bottle oven

the opening by the Queen in 1986 and many scenes of the Festival in full swing - with commentary from the key people involved throughout

who was a girl of seven at the time

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