50's Potteries based film.

Opening sequence to a 1950's film set in the potteries and based on one of the novels by Arnold Bennett.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Stoke-on-Trent
• Potteries

[philmill23]

sorry i dont have anymore, i wish i could find the rest

[3NUNS]

@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.

[MrErnieball1]

@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.

[3NUNS]

@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.

[ParagramTree]

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.

[MrErnieball1]

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

[MANOFROCK1702234]

I love stoke ,i live next to a chimmney and am very proud :)

[stevierayvaughan180]

@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

[TheMightyStokeCityFC]

I'm pretty sure the family name was Halkett not Harkett

[doggo31]

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?