A Night Out in Longton

A Night Out in LongtonA lively compilation of films and reminiscences of good nights out in the old days. We start with a celebration of Jollees nightclub with audience members and performers with special appearances by Mel Scholes, bandleader John Simons, illusionist Van Buren and filmmaker Charles Plant. Then were off to the pictures, with features on The Broadway, The Empire and Alhambra cinemas. Then theres a night out at a dance in Longton Town Hall in the 1940s,

The City’s reclamation schemes were in full swing Central Forest Park

There are three main sections to this five-year project to create and stage the UKs first National Garden Festival

The commercial vehicle is as old as the car itself

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

nature and character of the Potteries and its principle industry of making pottery

Gertie was one of our greatest Music Hall artists

photographs and memorabilia all help to tell the story of this unique railway

local historian

Stafford Laundry

The Diglake Pit disaster of January 1895 and Minnie Pit disaster of January 1918 are also commemorated by Staffordshire Film Archive

we have a brief review of Tunstall in 1910

Burslem introduces itself and how far it has come since Federation in 1910