Gladstone Pottery Museum - The GLADSTONE Story

Gladstone Pottery Museum - The GLADSTONE StoryMilestones in Gladstones history caught on film: DAVID MALKIN on how the site was saved from demolition in the nick of time in 1973. PAUL NIBLETT and film of volunteers restoring the site and of the Opening Day in 1975. Preparations for and wonderful film of the LAST FIRING OF A BOTTLE OVEN in 1978. Saggar Maker RALPH WHEELDON demonstrating saggar making in detail in 1982. Gladstones part in the Regeneration of the whole Gladstone St James Quarter

this amateur film was made in Cinemascope by director Bill Townley over a period of three years as a tribute to a local hero he felt had been neglected

Kevin Sauntry

We lost the Loop Line and steam trains

After Digging for Victory in 1941 we look at cinemas in Stoke – the Majestic

and pottery processes at Spode in 1930

and local allotments

the Westport Lake scheme

Cannock Chase and the girls camp was at Pipewood

THE STORY OF SHAP

There’s film of Chesterton Carnival of 1934

environmental issues (1972)

Five of the buildings were dormitories with bunk beds