Titanic: Prepare To Launch

Titanic: Prepare To LaunchTITANIC was the biggest and thought to be the safest ship in the world. Here we chart the plans and events leading up to her launch on May 31st 1911. Her captain Edward John Smith came from Stoke, and Titanic survivor EVA HART remembers the kind of man he was. The great anchors and anchor chains for Titanic and her sister ships were made at Netherton within Staffordshire at that time. Authors RICHARD HOWELLS, DAVID HUTCHINGS and JONATHAN SMITH look at

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Sentinel Centenary (1973)

to visit every derelict site of a colliery that was once working in North Staffordshire 50 years ago

The commercial vehicle is as old as the car itself

the naming of the locomotive City of Stoke-on-Trent and hear how the pottery industry finally triumphed after years of restrictions

the pottery industry

BBC Radio Stoke football commentator Nigel Johnson explains its importance for the Sir Stanley Matthews Foundation

In Alnwick we see film of the first class passenger lounge from the Olympic identical to that of her sister ship the Titanic – now a restaurant at the White Swan Hotel

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hear reminiscences from drivers and residents and film in detail a convoy of historic vehicles as they relive the journey from Kendall to Shap

but freight traffic never reached the high expectations of its prospectus

There’s a special feature on his Picture Palace which is being restored in Wolverton