The Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent

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The Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent

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Old pictures of the Pot Banks, the people & the smoke of Stoke-on-Trent UK.
Soundtrack 'Blue Day' written by Tony Stevenson
© The Zigatone Project

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@drewbobaggins5212 2 жыл бұрын

Stoke would be a truly unique place if all these old buildings and kilns were still standing, Imagine converting a kiln into a home. Tragic loss really, stoke needs to fire up the kilns again and embrace it's heritage.

@chrisparkes2179 Жыл бұрын

The whole country needs it's manufacturing back.

@ericcooper1709 3 жыл бұрын

As a child growing up in Abbey Hulton in the 50's I can remember pea soup smog, sitting on the back door step on bonfire night with the sky crimson from all the bonfires, playing football in Whitehouse Rd and only having to stop once every 20 minutes when the bus came down the road. Working as a dental technician in Shelton , getting off the bus in the morning and nearly retching at the stink from the gas works and Shelton bar, working overtime until 8.pm and the owner saying "I'll pay you in cash" and giving me half a crown (25p) Going to the Kings Hall on a Friday night to the "Mod balls" and walking home from Stoke to the Abbey at 1am in the morning. Buying my first record at Sherwins, Helen Shapiro "Walking back to Happiness" Seeing The Beatles at Trentham garden Going to the Place and meeting my wife there. Good luck to you all, hope this brings back memories for you

@sandponics 3 жыл бұрын

I can remember seeing 'The Animals' at the Place.

@milels6917 2 жыл бұрын

I remember getting off the train in Stoke passing through Etruria thinking as a little girl what a dirty hell hole Stoke was the buildings were black the smell of smoke every were I had been staying in Blackpool with relatives for convalescence Bronchitis almost took my life living in that smoke Grandma took me too live in Milton village then family had a new home in Abbey Hulton

@sandponics 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1946 in the Potteries and remember it well, although I now live in Perth, Western Australia. The difference between these two places is equal to the difference between the Sahara Desert and the North Pole, and yet the memory of The Potteries still draws me back even after all those years.

@chrisparkes2179 Жыл бұрын

But do you still look for the maker's mark under your saucer?

@ronscorey2731 Жыл бұрын

@@chrisparkes2179 Every time.. Hampshire Stokie

@ScottBizkit-ci4hq Жыл бұрын

Them were better times than now. Seriously you seen Hanley nower day's it's gone to the dog's. I miss the good day's my mate. Bring back them day's were happier times honestly

@thomasrush7916 Жыл бұрын

I'm very proud to be a man from the potties

@carolewilkinson4989 4 ай бұрын

Aged 8, used visit great-gran/dad. Last time was 1962. They lived 96 n 98 years.

@sophierae536 Жыл бұрын

Wherever we may roam , Stoke is always our home ❤

@Angelcynn_2001 Ай бұрын

I am a Stokie ❤ well said

@milels6917 3 жыл бұрын

To think I was a baby in all that pollution but I’m still here to tell the story I asked my aunt why she moved to Blackpool to get away from the Poverty filthy place poor souls what ever comforts they have now they deserve it not many left now though ❤️👌

@carolewilkinson4989 5 ай бұрын

We played on the spoil heaps, got cup/saucer 4 Mother's day . . .

@fasthracing Жыл бұрын

"I'm on the pots duck"

@mickdowns4153 3 жыл бұрын

The music isn't from the era, but it has a kind of epic power that gives the history more weight and seem more poignant.

@johnfellows2867 3 жыл бұрын

Being born in 1950, lots of these photo views I can relate to, unlike the multi culture toilet Stoke has now become !

@monumentstosuffering2995 3 жыл бұрын

A tragic loss.

@tallslimguy 4 жыл бұрын

So sad - All gone now - The smokeless zone act killed the potteries with owners unable to switch to gas fired bottle kilns Or newer electric kilns so I am told . So much history in the 6 towns.

@chrisparkes2179 Жыл бұрын

The potteries were going strong into the eighties. I worked in recruit at the time and always wish I'd made a list of all the potteries I dealt with. They'd all moved to tunnel kilns by that time. What really finished them off was the combination of a strong pound and high interest rates. The government wanted a high pound, but that made exports virtually impossible. The firms took out loans, hoping that something would be done to encourage exports again. Nothing was done and interest rates were put up. Firms went into liquidation, got bought out by London finance companies who either asset stripped them and sent the work abroad, or introduced trendy ideas that fell flat. Mr Hirst of Wade's told me about his new manager deciding that everyone needed to learn everyone else's jobs. So he had decorators sent down to the clay end and were expected to do labouring and labourers were sent to paint flowers. He didn't last long. Somehow Wade's kept going though. Until recently that is.

@jennr3850 3 жыл бұрын

Where did you get the photos from please? As I'd love to know where each one is. I wish each photo had a name on it. But thank you, some I hadnt seen before.

@Archiblog 5 жыл бұрын

"Always Merry and Bright" - also used by Cedric Price here:- www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/details/collection/object//307573 Do you know where I might be able to obtain a copy?

@Archiblog 5 жыл бұрын

marshallcolman.blogspot.com/2012/03/old-postcard-of-stoke-on-trent.html