Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway - Part 3: The Heyday of the Railway

Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway - Part 3: The Heyday of the RailwayMemories, Memorabilia and Milestones This video, through recorded memories, photographs, archive film and memorabilia together with scale models built by enthusiasts brings to life the colour and contrasts of this unique railway the first to be built in England in accordance with the Light Railways Act of 1896. The line provided an aletrnative form of transport to the market town of Leek for the isolated communities of the Staffordshire Moorlands, and

County Show 1925

This book "has taken Berry's name up another rung on the ladder of greatness

NORSACA and Midlands Jamaica Aid

The Sixties saw continued change in the Potteries

But the White Star Company opted for safety and comfort

including her greatest hit Nellie Dean

Also included are some historic scenes taken at Southall shortly before the sad desmise of the AEC marque

contemporary news reports

THE STORY OF SHAP

and climb aboard for a final ride in its year of closure - 1934

Belgian refugees and a mayor-making in Newcastle in 1914 and the melodrama A Pottery Girl’s Romancefilmed in Burslem in 1918

THE POTTERIES AT WAR  (2 hours)