Shap

ShapTHE STORY OF SHAP Before the motorways there were only two major roads linking England and Scotland the AI to the East and the A6 to the West. The A6 over Shap Fell was the most hazardous, and has become a legend throughout the kingdom people will still say Shap oh yes, that place that gets blocked by snow in winter! The section North of Kendall to Shap the worst 16 miles began as a drovers trail, then a pack horse track, and subsequently a road of

stock and locations

Victory scenes and local VE Day street parties round off this glimpse of local life during World War II

Days at the Seaside (Smugglers Cave and the Mermaid Inn)

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

and we end with scenes at the 1986 National Garden Festival

George V and Queen Mary in Stoke

This is the story behind the Sir Stanley Matthews statue at the Britannia Stadium

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Burslem Saturday

A full-size torso bust was cold-cast from this mould - and this bust stands at the centre of the Arnold Bennett Exhibition in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

He looks back on his life and comments both on the changing times and his own career

There are films taken in flights