Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway: Parts 1 and 2

Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway: Parts 1 and 2The Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway ran from 1904 to 1934 one of the earliest narrow gauge lines to be constructed under the Light Railways Act of 1896. It was built to serve the isolated farming communities of the Staffordshire Moorlands providing easier access to the market town of Leek. It was also popular with tourists, who rode its narrow gauge to explore Staffordshire's "Little Switzerland". Modelled on the Barsi Light Railway in India, its

to visit every derelict site of a colliery that was once working in North Staffordshire 50 years ago

After Doris Robinson’s parade around the town as Lord Mayor in 1968 we end with film and local comments from the 1970s

He was also a great mellifluous-voiced orator and wordsmith and he turned this into poetry

DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION

She often went flying with Will Hay

In Alnwick we see film of the first class passenger lounge from the Olympic identical to that of her sister ship the Titanic – now a restaurant at the White Swan Hotel

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All activities at Burslem Co-Op Bakery are shown in 1921

A NURSE VISITING A CANAL FAMILY

The video brings alive the changing face of canals and the boats that worked them

Then we see a collection of well-made films by local filmmaker and plane enthusiast Herbert Arundel

a War Bonds rally in the Market Square and hear of rationing and the mix of nations during the War