The Potteries 1964 Gone but Not forgot Hanley and the six towns DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2015
- When the swinging 60s hit Stoke its teenagers began to dance the twist and, on the surface at least, the city was thriving in the modern era. But this ATV documentary shows how the six towns that came together fifty years earlier to form Stoke on Trent, are still proud of their separate identities. With this historical backdrop Stoke is trying to modernise and move forward with Hanley as its new civic centre.
This video was Recored in 1964
25min long
Filmed on a black and white camera
Recorded on 23.09.1964
please do not use video without asking first
Copyright by stecluz
I moved from Holland to the Stoke on Trent area 40 years ago. I have always found the people very friendly and welcoming. Standing by a bus stop, people would make conversation and would observe whose turn it was to get on the bus.
In my native country it mainly depended on how large your elbows were who got on first. If you started talking to someone there that didn’t know you, you would get a funny look.
I've lived in Stoke on Stench my entire life and would much rather live in Holland lol 😆
@@jacobmassey3897 How did you vote in the Referendum?
@@elsab2710 I don't vote cause this country's screwed no matter what happens
@@jacobmassey3897 The Brexit vote certainly got your country screwed.
It breaks my heart. My grandfather was a potter and father a miner. I had to move away for work. Left my heart at home.
@Chad Vivaan we don't
@Jerome Neita load of bollocks. Bore off!
Showed this to my Dad who was a regular at the Place then aged 24, now 80!
Fascinating! At the same time sad and heartening. Small specialist potbank and its employee's livelihoods threatened by the "need "to build a traffic roundabout: that's a lesson we still haven't learnt over 50 years later.
I was 3 when this was made, born on Etruscan Street. As a teenager I actually liked living here, the optimism of this film was not misplaced. Now - it's just a nightmare. Thanks for sharing this (too many adverts, though!)
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@@steveeyre6975 no it doesn't, not on a computer anyway. 🤷🏼♂️
They destroyed us all... my god... I've never experienced such love and such despair for my people in Stoke-on-Trent
I’m proud to be born and still live in stoke and it’s crazy to see our history I drive in Hanley everyday and I can’t believe that spikey man has been on there for that long! My mum was born in 63 it’s crazy this is what she grew up with
Its crazy what you've grown up in.
@@rjhtrucking5429 I mean it doesn’t look like this anymore there’s no rain ways going through Hanley and there’s only like one pottery chimney that I know in Hanley, it’s crazy how this history has been forgotten
@@suzannaw3282 do you ever go to the basement bar in Hanley. Me and a few friends used to put house music nights on there.
@@suzannaw3282 do you ever go to the basement bar in Hanley. Me and a few friends used to put house music nights on there.
@@rjhtrucking5429 I don’t usually club in Hanley it’s not safe at all I stay in Newcastle when it comes to drinking. But I’ve been to basement twice it was a very good night
Born and bred in Stoke, and this incredible film makes me feel old. I was born 1964 when this was made.
Did you go chicos
Its heart breaking what's happened to the potteries
The singers about 20 minutes in to the video were a group at my late father’s Methodist Church - The Central Hall, The Strand, Longton. There is a shot of him smiling and listening to them singing.
Lived close by all my life.now ime 52 years old.and dare not step foot out after 7pm any Friday and Saturday nights
Excellent video, brings back lots of memories, I would love to see more film and footage of Stoke-on-Trent from 50s 60s & 70s.thanks for sharing it.
Great documentary, shame must of this industry and community now gone.
The old image of dirt and smoke went and the new image of drug abuse and crime came in !
Brilliant viewing! I love watching old footage about my hometown. Thanks for uploading.
at least then it started to change and move with the times now 50 years or so on and its actually gone backwards stuck in a time warp, worn out and tired full of empty spaces where houses have been knocked down and become wastelands, shops shutting all the time cheap discount and pawn shops. who comes to shop in hanley from other cities like we would visit places like manchester, birmingham etc it actually was far better then !
i live in wales now but i love stoke .I was a dresden boy and in the early 80's my dad had the first video rental place in the area...i cant come home to a place i barely recognize , even if half of my family are there
The good old days ☺
It's amazing how much it hasn't changed since the 60s.
My mum and two sister's worked in the pot industry and my dad was a pipe fitter on Johnson's of hanley sadly all gone and sadly wont recover
I enjoyed every bit of the video!
wonderful recording times past
fascinating.....absolutely fascinating 😊😊😊😊
20 seconds in: "The most disgusting, revolting wilderness I had ever passed through". No change there then.
I moved up to Stoke in 1966 with my father's job. I remember Hanley being a dirty city and asking my dad what are these mountains everywhere and he replied, slag heaps from the mines, but I can remember nearly everybody was in work and if you went in the city in the week there was hardly anyone walking round the shops, so different from today, Hanley's always busy, but that's all Thatcher's legacy, ruin the working man!
Excellent video!!!
excellent excellent video
Stoke-On-Trent is a wonderful place to live.
Born in Burslem and brought up in Norton. Worked in the potteries no more. o the old days ?
Fascinating nostalgia for the Potts. Hanley is still trying at least.
only coz council chuck money their way
I don't know where its trying. It's a s__t hole.
Hanley is the city centre, and it has no longer a station. Stoke town is derelict with a railway station...good eh
Not a fatty in sight....sign of the bloody times, looks like dancing really works. R.I.P the PLACE.
+chris jones The Place Nightclub in Hanley? I used to go there in the 80's. Good days. Live in wales now.
Life! Why can't time go back!
yes it's getting worse not better
very interesting
Excellent-just did 3 day guided tour of industrial history of S on T and this helps further understanding of the reality of potteries and peoples lives. Also shows how rooted people become, and unable to move on.
Peter Smith my dad and his family moved out here to Australia in the late 60's.
@@humbug4478 At a guess that was the time Oz was so desperate for labour they were offering a ticket for just £10. It was only one way though!
@@Bulletguy07 they called them ten pound poms , yes indeed ! As far as I know they never wanted to go back , my grandparents found it too hot in Parramatta west of Sydney so moved to the Blue mountains.
@@humbug4478 Yeah I went along to a recruitment thing once but my wife didn't want to go. We're divorced now! It works for some, but not all. I used to work with a woman who with her husband and children had moved out to live in Oz, not just once, but twice!! They'd had two attempts at it then finally gave up. I didn't know her husband but got the impression from what she told me that it was her who couldn't settle.
I am sorry to say as a North Staffs Lad. I think that I would like to start again! If The 5 towns had Not federated, the loop line maintained, then the unmitigated awfulness of Stoke on Trent of the 21st century would have been mitigated!
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And no mention of the Good Old OATCAKE...
What about DOULTON loved the figures toured the factory a few times
2022 and very little has changed. Stoke-on-Trent is still desolate and grim. It has nothing to do with the city's population, but everything about political decisions to neglect the northern towns and cities . Thatcher signed Stoke-on-Trent's death warrant when she closed the mines. The steelworks quickly followed. Like dominoes, big employers fell. The Michelin tyre factory closed, and then the pottery factories. The places that had founded the city and had given work to generations of the same families were swept away. Benefit dependency became common, and so did addiction and much lower living standards, leading to a massive increase of crime. The people's spirit is and always was strong, but they really do deserve better than the hand they have been dealt.
Always ignored until after Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds , Derby, Nottingham and Cheshire.
My hometown...I worked the Pots (as did my brother and my mum) we are all skilled potters (painting, fettling, casting, lithographing) My dad and grandad were miners. Such a shame to see my town go to the bloody dogs, and this shitty government (standing in that witches shadow thatcher) wont give us any funding....We should of won the city of culture, (injecting us with renewed interest) but it went to Coventry who have done absolutely fuck all for this country.
a big nod to shelly's and the place......i came back for that
The beauty that came from the ugly..
😢 everything has gone
I got on my Bike because Norman Tebbit said so. But I paid a heavy price in costs moving from Scotland to London. No care fees for a dying mother either who had to sell her house for her own care. All from the war and 50’s as a widow
What an opening statement lol Jesus Christ!
Hi there!! Would I be okay to sample the audio in this to make some music?
I loved The Place so much and it seems such a long time ago. Shit! It was a long time ago. We never imagined the decline in the city but we never imagined that the local people would vote for the Conservatives for any reason. Bring back the 70s. 🙏
all gone now martin hanley's got no proper nightclubs anymore....
Sorry but it's still awful, for entirely different reasons
So sad
My name is Melanie White. I left Portland House School of Art Burslem in 1960. On leaving school I worked as a paintress {the word "artist" never used!} for Spode China. I am a writer/artist. To see my work and hear my latest short story "Juke-Box Jury" set in 1960s potteries and written initially for a film for Media Studies Students go to RUTHWHITNEYPLAYS.BLOGSPOT.COM
Rather vile how folk describe this city.
The potteries went downhill bad after the industry died
masons chimney in the background
Grimy and old,but at least it had full employment back then.
Hi, I am interested in the group of musicians & singers here at 20-34 to 21-31 please? Any comment on who they are??
il try find out
Great, I would appreciate that!
I wonder if it's Franklin on the old Tom Tom's at the back.
STOKIES are gods people..14
the place is desolate now
bentilee, for ex servicemen
The broken city... only way upwards is to move outwards to other cities with business plans or work for corporate.
My old man had 7 aunties and uncles and lived in stoke with them until the age of 8 , moved to Chester and tbh not looked back
It's 5 towns Fenton is a subherb ...as the first registration for cars were vt v for 5 t for towns....the lord makers car to this day
Is ..1.VT...meant number one five towns...acctualy the first ever rolls Royce sold in stoke on trent was to angelo pomelli...
What about EH?
Nah, it's 6 towns. Always has been. The 6 towns run in a line from north to south along the A50 - Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, Longton. Stoke-on-Trent was formed by the federation of the 6 towns in 1910. Fenton was 'forgotten' about by the author Arnold Bennet in the early 1900's, but he knew it was the 6 towns, but that didn't fit into his fictional novels as well. Fenton was geographically the biggest of the 6 towns so it's odd that he should leave that one out.
@@allthingsabbey No problem! Me too (born and raised and still here 52 years later!). I was responding to Adamgraham's comment that there were 5 towns - I thought you were taking the mickey with 7!
go on stoke n40
In America we have some of the same problems, but even today I still see this area Stoke on Trent as a mish mash of old and new...I can't say it's a place I will visit again as I found it working class white with few immigrants, even with Trump I would say America is far ahead of northern England...
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. In 2019 the immigrant population of Stoke-on-Trent was around 15%, which was about the average for the whole of the UK (London is obviously an exception). A lot of immigrants are white so I can't see how you can tell if a population has 'few immigrants' by sight alone, unless you check your facts, which you obviously haven't. We could talk about 'asylum seekers' - the total number in Stoke on Trent in 2019 was more than double the amount for the whole of South East England. We could talk about the UK's biggest ever percentage increase in the non-UK born population in any UK area took place in Stoke-on-Trent between 2001 and 2011, where the foreign born population grew by 130%. In 2019, 13% of Stoke-on-Trent's population was classed as 'non-white' (many of whom were born in the area, so don't count as immigrants), which is more than most areas in the UK, other than London and the Birmingham/West Midlands area. I am not sure Trump's (now Biden's) America is far ahead of anywhere, least of all anywhere in the UK. If the USA was located in Europe, it would not even be accepted into the EU as it does not qualify under the EU definition of a democratic country. Those riot scenes in the Capitol that Trump instigated? That is your country. That doesn't happen here.
You obviously don't get out into USA much. Skid row in LA? McKeesport PA? Detroit? Kensington Avenue area of Philly? Toledo? I have... that should broaden your horizons my friend.
Stokes a dump