Longton - A Time of Change

Longton - A Time of ChangeIn this second collection of Longton films, we look at the town going through immense disruption and change. We glimpse post war Longton with the children of Adderley Green School. We see Alan Povey tell some of his tales of Owd Grandad Piggott. The Gladstone Pottery works was used for television filming and we see Wedgwood workers in period costumes then the filming of Clayhangerin 1975. We see and hear one of the last sagger makers, Ralph Whieldon

this amateur film was made in Cinemascope by director Bill Townley over a period of three years as a tribute to a local hero he felt had been neglected

Titanic Steerage Band

and people were proud to work for The Knotty

photographs and interviews charting the two decades of ideas and design proposals - beginning with a 1998 idea for a “Bursley Trail” of statues of some of Bennett’s characters

Pat Collins Funfair at Hanley Wakes in 1963

"He was very underrated

this video tells the story of the British lorry

Here we present the history of the pottery towns and of the pots and potters who made them

Phoenix Singers

He was right-handed and bowled at a pace that varied from medium to fast-medium

and the many developments since those times

The fast disappearing remaining buildings