Tunstall: Celebrating a Century on Film (2006)
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The collection of archive films and interviews from the Staffordshire Film Archive Represents the best examples of Tunstall captured on film from 1910 to the 1970's. We begin in 1960 with the 50th anniversary of Federation and Tunstall introduces itself. In 1910 we see dustmen in the backs of Nashe Peake Street. We hear stories of George Barber, who had opened the Palace - first cinema in the Potteries - in 1909. We see newsrel of the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1924 and hear how Knotty drivers negotiated Tunstall station and see rare film of the Loop Line. We take a steam ride to Hardcastle tunnel, then see boats working the canal tunnel at Harecastle in the 1940's. The Miners' Transfer Scheme of 1964 brought Durham miners to Chatterley Whitfield. We see it in operation as the mining museum and hear miners from Victoria Colliery talking of pit life in the 1960's. After scenes and comments from the early 1970's, we end with a brief review of Tunstall in 1910. Produced in association with the Staffordshire Film Archive - Studio:
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