The good thing about Stoke on Trent is that the countryside is close at hand only a couple of miles from the city centre. It also has a wealth of wild open spaces as well many of them reclaimed industrial land such a central forest park, park hall country park three miles from the city centre and Bradwell woods.
It has a certain mystic that keeps me coming back to visit friends and family. but the Thatcher covernment of the early 80s killed it. My education in this time was interupted by strikes and my places to play were limited to deritlict potbanks and houses. but the people are still warm and welcoming and I have to go back to get my oatcakes. Although if we join in the big society that the aresole Cameron promotes it will be all good soon. What bullsh1t. A dying city. Such a shame
@MrErnieball1 : Cameron. Awful. Wants to make Sodomites equal to the rest of us ! He is a first class liar and buffoon. The servant of international Zionists.
@3NUNS How long before you mention Hitler?????????????????????????????? Cameron maybe a twat and may have to sucumb to inernational influences, which may or may not include Zionist overtures. But why be so simplistic there are too many other issues we should blame him for. I.E. health, eduction and all other fundemental services he nd his like are cutting budgets for. Rather than type on youtube write to your local MP to get you opinions heard.
@MrErnieball1 : I telephoned my local M.P. today for some assistance. He is Mr. MIke Symon, the Member of the House of Representatives for Deakin in Victoria, Australia. His office is in Mitcham a suburb which had potteries similar to the Black Country. The suburb on this side of Mitcham was known as Tunstall obviously adopted from the area with which the video is concerned. That suburb is now known as Nunawading, an aboriginal name.
The film is available on a BFI compilation called, 'Land of Promise - The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950.' It's available through Amazon. The family in the film is called Harkett. Local sculptor Colin Melbourne (who recently died) appears briefly in the background of the sequence shot in the modelling shop at Wedgwoods. He must have only been around 18 or 19 years of age. Does anyone recognise other local characters in the film?
how can you say its a dump, there must of been hard times, but its an amazing place to visit and its still possible to see how it would of been the tiny terrace house and the hardships the people had to endure... the amazing pottery buildings and town halls, burslem is my favorite and its is posible to get DVD's of the potteries history from burslem. i have visited it many times ... i love it and have always found the people so helpful and friendly .its good a buyer has been found for spode !
The film is called 'Five Towns' and was made in 1947 for the Board of Trade to promote the Pottery industy and boost post war economic recovery. Really a docu drama, it uses the story of a London girl marrying a Potteries' lad to show all aspects of manufacture and the modernistation from coal to clean firing with electricity. Some amazing shots of a vanisehd way of life - cup jolleyers, paintresses etc. Try Staffordshire film archive for copies. A really charming film and now very nostalgic.
I moved (unwillingly) with my then family to Stoke-on-Trent from Stockport in September, 1954, when I was seven and a half years of age, when my late father got a job as a miner in the now non-existant pits. Fifty-five years later, I still have made no friends here, put down no roots here and still don't feel I belong here in any way. It's a dump and full of very unfriendly people. If I could afford to move back home, I would. When asked where I'm from, I always answer Stockport.
@DavidRayner1947 if you havent made any friends in 56 years you have got big problems, and if you cant afford a house in stockport you've got bigger ones
Yes, but the great pottery manufacturers in this "dump" used to make the finest ceramics ever known. Now, most of those great names are gone or in terminal decline, and today you are more likely to eat off cheap and nasty china made in well...China and the Far East. That is a terrible shame, and being born and raised in Staffordshire, I think we should all mourn the loss of our magnificent heritage.
What a dump that city used to look like a few decades ago. It looks much like any other British city today. Most of the old coal mines and marl holes have been filled in and grassed over and turned into parks or had new housing built on them.
The good thing about Stoke on Trent is that the countryside is close at hand only a couple of miles from the city centre. It also has a wealth of wild open spaces as well many of them reclaimed industrial land such a central forest park, park hall country park three miles from the city centre and Bradwell woods.
ParagramTree 6 months ago
It has a certain mystic that keeps me coming back to visit friends and family. but the Thatcher covernment of the early 80s killed it. My education in this time was interupted by strikes and my places to play were limited to deritlict potbanks and houses. but the people are still warm and welcoming and I have to go back to get my oatcakes. Although if we join in the big society that the aresole Cameron promotes it will be all good soon. What bullsh1t. A dying city. Such a shame
MrErnieball1 9 months ago
@MrErnieball1 : Cameron. Awful. Wants to make Sodomites equal to the rest of us ! He is a first class liar and buffoon. The servant of international Zionists.
3NUNS 3 months ago
@3NUNS How long before you mention Hitler?????????????????????????????? Cameron maybe a twat and may have to sucumb to inernational influences, which may or may not include Zionist overtures. But why be so simplistic there are too many other issues we should blame him for. I.E. health, eduction and all other fundemental services he nd his like are cutting budgets for. Rather than type on youtube write to your local MP to get you opinions heard.
MrErnieball1 3 months ago
@MrErnieball1 : I telephoned my local M.P. today for some assistance. He is Mr. MIke Symon, the Member of the House of Representatives for Deakin in Victoria, Australia. His office is in Mitcham a suburb which had potteries similar to the Black Country. The suburb on this side of Mitcham was known as Tunstall obviously adopted from the area with which the video is concerned. That suburb is now known as Nunawading, an aboriginal name.
3NUNS 3 months ago
I love stoke ,i live next to a chimmney and am very proud :)
MANOFROCK1702234 1 year ago
The film is available on a BFI compilation called, 'Land of Promise - The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950.' It's available through Amazon. The family in the film is called Harkett. Local sculptor Colin Melbourne (who recently died) appears briefly in the background of the sequence shot in the modelling shop at Wedgwoods. He must have only been around 18 or 19 years of age. Does anyone recognise other local characters in the film?
doggo31 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure the family name was Halkett not Harkett
TheMightyStokeCityFC 1 year ago
how can you say its a dump, there must of been hard times, but its an amazing place to visit and its still possible to see how it would of been the tiny terrace house and the hardships the people had to endure... the amazing pottery buildings and town halls, burslem is my favorite and its is posible to get DVD's of the potteries history from burslem. i have visited it many times ... i love it and have always found the people so helpful and friendly .its good a buyer has been found for spode !
SuperGoodygumdrops 2 years ago
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doggo31 2 years ago
The film is called 'Five Towns' and was made in 1947 for the Board of Trade to promote the Pottery industy and boost post war economic recovery. Really a docu drama, it uses the story of a London girl marrying a Potteries' lad to show all aspects of manufacture and the modernistation from coal to clean firing with electricity. Some amazing shots of a vanisehd way of life - cup jolleyers, paintresses etc. Try Staffordshire film archive for copies. A really charming film and now very nostalgic.
doggo31 2 years ago
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TheMightyStokeCityFC 2 years ago
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doggo31 2 years ago
I moved (unwillingly) with my then family to Stoke-on-Trent from Stockport in September, 1954, when I was seven and a half years of age, when my late father got a job as a miner in the now non-existant pits. Fifty-five years later, I still have made no friends here, put down no roots here and still don't feel I belong here in any way. It's a dump and full of very unfriendly people. If I could afford to move back home, I would. When asked where I'm from, I always answer Stockport.
DavidRayner1947 2 years ago
@DavidRayner1947 if you havent made any friends in 56 years you have got big problems, and if you cant afford a house in stockport you've got bigger ones
stevierayvaughan180 1 year ago
is there anywhere we can reques the rest of this?
Also, what is the exact date?
voiceofreason40 2 years ago
nice
eamonicker 3 years ago
nice vid.
andyjontz 3 years ago
Yes, but the great pottery manufacturers in this "dump" used to make the finest ceramics ever known. Now, most of those great names are gone or in terminal decline, and today you are more likely to eat off cheap and nasty china made in well...China and the Far East. That is a terrible shame, and being born and raised in Staffordshire, I think we should all mourn the loss of our magnificent heritage.
OldMrGrace 3 years ago
What a dump that city used to look like a few decades ago. It looks much like any other British city today. Most of the old coal mines and marl holes have been filled in and grassed over and turned into parks or had new housing built on them.
mortonhill 3 years ago
sorry i dont have anymore, i wish i could find the rest
philmill23 3 years ago
always wanted to see this film
could you please upload some more?
valeloyal23 3 years ago