Six Towns on Film - TUNSTALL. Download version

Six Towns on Film - TUNSTALL. Download versionThis collection of archive films and interviews from Staffordshire Film Archive represents the best examples of Tunstall captured on film from 1910 to the 1970s. We begin in 1960 with the 50th anniversary of Federation and Tunstall introduces itself. In 1910 e see dustmen in the backs of Nashe Peake Street. We hear stories of George Barber, who opened the Picture Palace first cinema in the Potteries in 1909. We see newsreel of the visit of the Prince

available from 16th December

The video ends with suggestions for a memorial to the disaster - and the memorial was unveiled in 2007 thanks to the fund-raising efforts of Keith Meeson

Now almost all traces of the salt industry have vanished

a tribute indeed to the foresight of Astley

Then we’re off to the pictures

male dressing room and female dressing room

Stafford By-Pass

while rooted in Burslem

The Mayor's full title of "Lord Mayor" was to be achieved in 1928

There is a selection of archive film trailers and cinema adverts

the collection begins with the entire Vickers film charting the run-up to and participation in the 1931 Schneider Trophy Race – in which Reginald Mitchell’s superbly designed S6b seaplane won the trophy outright for Britain after 18 years of the contest

but concluded with the end of steel-making in 1978