A Christmas Time Machine

A Christmas Time MachineArchive Films of Winter and Christmas time Archive films spanning over a Century, Family Christmases, Santa on film over the years, a Potted History of Pantomime, images of Pantos in Hanley and Stafford, performers of the past, Cinema announcements including Christmas in Wartime and lots of winter items brought to life in moving pictures enhanced by personal reminiscences and interviews and a special feature on the famous child dance troupe The Hanley

Dereliction

Fire Department

This is a further collection of interviews

We see various scenes in 1926 (Health Centre

James Nesbitt and other celebrities – plus sculptor Andy Edwards

This is a fund-raising DVD made to support the Donna Louise Trust

There is a wartime section with views of all the town parks

In an exclusive interview with the pattern’s designer – Enid Seeney – we get insight into all the stages of design up to production

We visit every bottle kiln still standing

There is an extra item on the DVD – a complete Spode film of 1954

He looks back on his life and comments both on the changing times and his own career

we then follow the various creative episodes through to the sculpting of the clay figure in 2010 and the making of the final mould for a future statue