Spitfire Dream - DOWNLOAD Version

Spitfire Dream - DOWNLOAD VersionThis is the story of Reginald Mitchells life and career set against news stories and contemporary events. It features new digitised scans of original plans, sketches and photos and rare archive film of his greatest achievements; the seaplanes which broke world speed records and won the Schneider Trophy outright for Britain in 1931, and of course his greatest achievement the SPITFIRE. Apart from all the key visual archive material relating to RJ, as

There is film of a colliers train arriving and the colliers crowding onto the platform in 1900

Featured items are: Horses working on the farm

The Gladstone pottery works was restored and opened as the Gladstone Pottery Museum

and hear how Knotty drivers negotiated Tunstall station and see rare film of the Loop Line

the North Staffordshire Film Society in the 1940s

The film covers:- Health Department (maternity and child welfare)

The Century of Motoring event held at Brough Park in 1966

then opened by the Queen in 1973

Tunstall – which went on to become The Golden Torch nightclub

We see the earliest film from 1901 railway workers hear and see the locomotive works and North Staffordshire Railway around 1910

From the Roman invaders

as captured by the film camera from the mid-1920s