It's In the Air

It's In the AirFilms of Flying This is a compilation of films taken of aeroplanes and flying by local filmmakers largely in the 1930s. Courtesy of Wessex Film Archive, the collection begins with the entire Vickers film charting the run up to and participation in the 1931 Schneider Trophy Race in which Reginald Mitchells superbly designed S6b seaplane won the trophy outright for Britain after 18 years of the contest. At the time of his death in 1937, this was still

where he was tragically killed

PARK HALL COUNTRY PARK: Last of the City's great reclamation schemes

archive film and re-enactments to bring the past to life

Tut himself takes us back to his childhood and schooldays and tells how he got into fighting

Colin Melbourne

This collection of many films shows the changing face of the Potteries and surrounding area in the 1960s with insight from informative interviews with John Abberley

The programme includes: The Hunt at Seighford Hall

and gives a real flavour of the time

poetry and drama

She shows all her original drawing and working designs of this and other well-known patterns of hers

This collection of archive films and interviews from Staffordshire Film Archive represents films shown at local picture houses then cinemas from 1900 to the end of the heyday of silent cinema

Hanley - from 1919 to the theatre's closure in 2000