Wedgwood Pageant

Wedgwood PageantThe Stoke on Trent Historical Pageant, May 1930 The largest live event ever staged in Stoke on Trent 5000 Performers, 100 Orchestra, 500 Chorus. This is the complete official film of the Pageant first shown at the Regent Cinema, Hanley. "The Pageant attempts to portray vividly with all the help of colour, spectacle, drama and music, the scenes of the glorious Past to the Present generation Visitors from far and near will all be kindled with admiration

Kathy Niblett and Bill Townley

one of the many riding masters who were plying their skills up and down the country throughout the second half of the eighteenth century

and adds background and additional information to enhance the fascinating archive film sequences

Pictures From The Potteries contains on a single DVD the highlights of 131 cine movies shot mainly in and around Stoke-on-Trent from 1962 to 1988 by local film-maker and author

These new prints were made from films discovered and preserved by Ray Johnson at the Archive and are the earliest moving images of this area

royal visits to Stoke-on-Trent and numerous other enthralling events and occasions

This documentary is enhanced with interviews with Cricket experts and famous players - and with personal comments from the great man himself recorded in the 1960s - together with rare film footage of Barnes in action against the West Indies in 1932 and film of his testimonial match

Don Smith shows us some of Captain Smith’s possessions

His wife Mary gives insight into how he trained and other aspects of his professional life

and was popular with excursionists

but concluded with the end of steel-making in 1978

Expert John Cross gives us a guided tour of the collection – the last time the items were all together before being auctioned and split