Mining the Past, Shaping Our Lives

Mining the Past, Shaping Our LivesThis social history documentary, produced for Age UK North Staffordshire, brings together ex miners to share their varied and fascinating experiences of life in the pits of Newcastle under Lyme, North Staffordshire. The areas 20th century economic and cultural landscape relied heavily on its 6 major pits which powered the local potteries and iron industries. This DVD powerfully captures their history and heritage through testimonies, stories, poems,

Reclamation scenes in the 1960s are shown

official plans and newspaper reports are here combined with photographs and commissioned illustrations to recreate the excitement and controversy raised by the construction of this unique railway

NORSACA and Midlands Jamaica Aid

the North Staffordshire Film Society in the 1940s

We see and hear one of the last sagger-makers

George V and Queen Mary visit in 1913 and we see the famous 1918 melodrama “A Pottery Girl’s Romance”

The story of Arthur’s work with Peter Cheeseman

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

PART 1 - 1914-1939

This documentary shows how Kibblestone at Oulton

Stoke Locomotives Works in 1910 and dustmen in Tunstall in the same year

Birmingham had two of these