Six Towns on Film - LONGTON

Six Towns on Film - LONGTONThis collection of archive films and interviews from Staffordshire Film Archive represents the best examples of Longton captured on film from the 1930s to the early 1990s. We begin in 1960 with the 50th anniversary of Federation, then take a steam train trip from Stoke to Longton and then join a Longton school on a train trip to London in the 1940s. Digging for Victory shows Queens Park and local allotments in 1941, and we see acricket match, Longton

we then chart her career through to retirement in the 1950s - and hear her own recordings of her songs

Digging for Victory

DAVID HUTCHINGS and JONATHAN SMITH look at the plans and preparations for the launch of this iconic ship

This is a selection of films from the British Commercial Vehicle Museum

We see it in operation as the Mining Museum

The story of Arthur’s work with Peter Cheeseman

Victory Celebrations

Here we investigate the contemporary importance of the story of the Titanic

There was great emphasis on the importance of improving Stoke’s environment and its image nationally

it looks with optimism to the new hspital development and medical school

Five of the buildings were dormitories with bunk beds

Now these valuable films have been digitised to television quality by Staffordshire Film Archive