Artikelname: Around Cheadle
Artikelbeschreibung: This fascinating collection of old photographs shows in fine detail some of the major changes that have tken place in Cheadle and its surounding villages over the last hundred years. In its industrial heyday Cheadle was a centre for coalmining and famous for its silk and tape mills. Factories at Oakamoor produced the cable that was laid under the Atlantic for the first telegraphic link between Europe and America.In this book we can revisit those busy days through these old photographs and see for ourselves hopw the streets and factoriies looked to the people who lived and worked in them. We can see some of the people too, and how they lived. These old scenes, collected in almost 200 photographs, will bring back powerful memories for some and introduce new residents and a younger generation to a town they could scarcely imagine.

Artikelname: Collieries in the North Staffordshire Coalfield
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This book records the passing of one of the two most dominant industries in the Potteries; coal mining. Many of the photographs are from 1951 or from the 1980s-1990s. Some 29 collieries are covered. This book is not an historical account of coal mining in the north Staffordshire coalfield; it is a photographic record of most of the pits that were nationalised in 1947. During 1980 -1990 the author was able to photograph some of the surviving pits underground, both in deep mines and footrails, which were relatively shallow, privately owned mines. In the text accompanying the illustrations, shaft depths are taken from the NCB's statutory mine plans. The company name given below the name of the colliery is that of the owner at the time the mine passed to the National Coal Board on 1st January 1947.

Artikelname: Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway
Artikelbeschreibung: Most days of the year, even when the weather is bad, visitors can be found walking and cycling along the Manifold and Hamps Valleys between Waterhouses in the south and Hulme End in the north. It is a distance of eight miles and the path they use is covered with tarmac.It is the track bed of the Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway, which ran between 1904 and 1934. With the use of period photographs, chiefly of the railway but also of nearby villages, the days of the L&MVLR are brought back for us.The popularity today of this little line stems perhaps because of the nostalgia for things gone by and its superb location. It must also be because of the unusual nature of the railway. It was narrow guage, built to a rail width of thirty inches. The engines were of a very similar design to those on the Barsi Light Railway in India. Even the coaches were colonial in style. They were painted primrose yellow and must have been quite picturesque when seen down the valley.This collection of phototgraphs will, I hope, give a good pictorial record of what there was and what could have been today, had the line survived the years of the Depression and the war that followed it.

Artikelname: Midget Car Speedway
Artikelbeschreibung: In its early days motor racing was the preserve of the rich and glamorous. Drivers were likely to come from professional and wealthy backgrounds and spectators often liked to think of themselves as 'a cut above the rest'. During the 1920s and 1930s however; there was a gradual awakening of the fact that many people, not able to go to Brooklands or the other racecourses, were still interested in motor racing. For many, midget car racing was their first introduction to the sport.Originating in America, midget car racing soon took off in the UK with racetracks at Wembley, Southampton, Glasgow and Edinburgh and many points in between. In 1938, the sport came to Hanley and later Corbridge and from then on, the Potteries were to be at the forefront of Midget Car Speedway in Britain.Midget Car Speedway is a branch of motorsport that has been overlooked by many motor racing historians. Derek Bridgett's brilliantly illustrated history of the sport looks at the development of Midget Car Speedway before the Second World War; and in particular; the racing that took place in Staffordshire and Coventry.

Artikelname: Staffordshire's Lost Railways
Artikelbeschreibung: During the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth century, Staffordshire became a centre for the pottery industry and also coal and ironstone mining. As a result, railway links became essential and soon a network of passenger and goods lines sprang up. Like most counties in England these enjoyed a century of popular use before the end of steam and the Beeching cuts of the 1960s and it is these lost lines that this illustrates. Among the locations featured in the 49 period photographs are Hulme End, Norbury, Cheddleton, Wetton Mill, Horninglow, Stretton & Clay Mills, Tutbury, Pelsall, Brownhills, Alrewas, North Rode, Bosley, Leek, Kingsley & Froghall, Oakamoor, Alton, Rocester, Norbury & Ellaston, Ashbourne, Fenton Manor, Black Bull, Milton, Stockton Brook, Wall Grange, Stafford Common, Salt & Sandon, Grindley, Silverdale, Madeley Road, Pipe Gate, Market Drayton, Cobridge, Cheadle, Tean, Totmonslow, Beeston Tor, Thor?s Cave, Butterton, Ecton, Bradnop, Waterhouses, Trentham, Colwich, Sandon and Normacot.

Artikelname: The Potteries
Artikelbeschreibung: The North Staffordshire Potteries are the only area in Britain to be so completely identified with one industry. The presence of the ceramics industry has played a dominant role in shaping both the economic life and the landscape of the area. The lives of local people have been played out against what Arnold Bennett described as 'a singular scenery of coal dust, potshards, flame and steam'. The photographs in this fascinating selection illuminate the everyday life of this remarkable area during the past one hundred years. As well as illustrating people at work and on the move, they give an idea of the sense of community felt by Potteries people. One section looks at the history of the area's parks - 'lungs for the people' as they were called; others explore subjects such as religion, sport, entertainment, holidays and popular celebrations.The photographs come from two main sources: the archives of the City Museum and Art Gallery and the collections of the Gladstone Working Pottery Museum. As well as describing the region's rich industrial and social heritage, they will be a source of nostalgic pleasure to those whose lives have been spent among the Potteries.

Artikelname: Wombourne
Artikelbeschreibung: A pictorial record of the village of Wombourne, containing over 220 photographs and illustrations. A valuable record of the local landscape, people and events from the time of some of the earliest photographs, up until the 1980s. Wombourne, close to Wolverhampton, has been in existence as a settlement for centuries. Although it has grown much, the nature and charm of the area remains the same, and it retains all the beauty of the traditional English countryside. Many aspects of Wombourne life are touched upon, including those of education, industry, sport, and the constabulary. The photographs in this collection will inspire nostalgia among the familiar, and intrigue among the new.