Longton: 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 Longton captured on film from the 1930's to the early 1980's. We begin in 1960 - looking back 50 years to Federation . Back in the era of steam trains, we take a trip to Longton from Stoke and then join a group of school children boarding a train for a trip to London in the 1940's. Digging for Victory begins a wartime sequence of cultivating the local parks and allotments . We see church parades in Dresden , a match at Longton Cricket Ground, Queens Park during wartime and a Blurton carnival of queens. After the war , we see workers catching buses at the bus station in 1946 and we go to a dance at Longton Town Hall - with Jimmy Moss's band. Travelling by train from Longton to Meir, we relive the majesty of the Broadway cinema , then hear stories of the Alhambra , Focus and Empire - concluding with its burning down in 1992. After Doris Robinson's parade as Lord Mayor in 1968, we end with comments and film of Longton in the 1970's. Produced in association with the Staffordshire Film Archive - Studio:
- ILC
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- Documentary