Pictures from the Potteries

Pictures from the PotteriesPictures From The Potteries contains on a single DVD the highlights of 131 cine movies shot mainly in and around Stoke on Trent from 1962 to 1988 by local film maker and author, Cyril Kent. Cyrils entirely original footage of a vanished world includes fascinating sequences of Stoke City and Port Vale matches in the 1960s, Pat Collins Funfair at Hanley Wakes in 1963, the 1965 university students rag procession of Keele Karnival, the Elephant Trek of

We also get a guided tour of the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland

These are two complete films by Ray Johnson made in the 1970s

We see early action and images

Virginia Meir and Ray Johnson

This documentary looks at its early days and the subsequent openings of other parks

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

but in the event of war they could accommodate evacuees

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which has the best collection of preserved British commercial vehicles - including those made at Leyland

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What marked Astley out from his contemporaries was his uncanny knack of developing and expanding current forms of equestrian entertainment and moulding them into something new and exciting

Minton and Doulton the pots themselves reveal the history and lives of their creators