Knotty - Download Version

Knotty - Download VersionThe Story of the North Staffordshire Railway (2 hours) The NSR was established in 1846, and grew to become a profitable network linking with the larger railway companies around it. It responded to public needs, creating a Loop Line through the heart of the Potteries, and growing and adding stations as suburbs of towns developed. It took advantage of local mineral resources and carried off product of the coal industry. Its sturdy development beat of

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are enhanced with a complete additional film Enter the Twenties - celebrities in the Arts in the 1920s

Auxiliary Fire Service practice

We see and hear of local cinemas – the Alhambra

working girls at Royal Ordnance Factory at Swynnerton

This is a selection of films from the archive of the British Commercial Vehicle Museum

but freight traffic never reached the high expectations of its prospectus

and also to recall the working and living conditions they had to endure in 1895

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Walyter Lord - author of the book A Night to Remember - recalls some of the many stories which survivors related to him personally

Bill Morland

These were the celebrations of the achievements and career of Gordon Banks – leading up to the unveiling of a new statue of him - erected on the approach to the (now) Bet365 Stadium