City General - The Story of a Hospital

City General - The Story of a HospitalThis story of the City General is told by the hospital staff themselves Ray interviewed many of the staff who were interested in various aspects of the Hospital's history and activities. The programme has three sections: Firstly, we are taken on a guided tour of the hospital site in 1988 charting its growth in buildings and services from the mediaeval hospital of St. Loy on that site, to its days as the Stoke on Trent Workhouse from 1842 to the busy

The Green of Ireland's Shores

Stoke Film Theatre in the 1970s

Anna Shannon

anecdotes and personal reminiscences plus photographs and rare archive film which brings alive the days when it was a real treat to be "at the pictures"

and Newcastle had its Octocentenary

The Borough of Longton opened the first public park – Queens Park – in 1888

In different buildings

and an obsession to record his surroundings

then Chairman of the Apedale Heritage Trust and Mining Museum

We trace the history of the road using rare archive film

Joe Monks-Neill - architect of some of the major reclamation schemes - sets the scene in the 1960s and explains the tasks undertaken to achieve the reclamation of the many areas of dereliction within the City

"SMALL THINGS" - STOKE-ON-TRENT CIVIC RECEPTION FOR ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU