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.

@jacobmassey3897

Жыл бұрын

I've lived in Stoke on Stench my entire life and would much rather live in Holland lol 😆

@elsab2710

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobmassey3897 How did you vote in the Referendum?

@jacobmassey3897

Жыл бұрын

@@elsab2710 I don't vote cause this country's screwed no matter what happens

@elsab2710

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@fantasyproduct1042

3 жыл бұрын

@Chad Vivaan we don't

@fantasyproduct1042

3 жыл бұрын

@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!)

@SeeDaRipper...

2 жыл бұрын

Adblock plus duck.

@SeeDaRipper...

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@rjhtrucking5429

3 жыл бұрын

Its crazy what you've grown up in.

@suzannaw3282

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@rjhtrucking5429

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

Its heart breaking what's happened to the potteries

Born and bred in Stoke, and this incredible film makes me feel old. I was born 1964 when this was made.

@markoldfield9847

3 жыл бұрын

Did you go chicos

Great documentary, shame must of this industry and community now gone.

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.

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.

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

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

I enjoyed every bit of the video!

fascinating.....absolutely fascinating 😊😊😊😊

wonderful recording times past

The good old days ☺

20 seconds in: "The most disgusting, revolting wilderness I had ever passed through". No change there then.

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

Excellent video!!!

Born in Burslem and brought up in Norton. Worked in the potteries no more. o the old days ?

excellent excellent video

Stoke-On-Trent is a wonderful place to live.

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!

Fascinating nostalgia for the Potts. Hanley is still trying at least.

@john111257

7 жыл бұрын

only coz council chuck money their way

@paulryder1204

Жыл бұрын

I don't know where its trying. It's a s__t hole.

Life! Why can't time go back!

@Stecluz

3 жыл бұрын

yes it's getting worse not better

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.

@mushroomgods4707

8 жыл бұрын

+chris jones The Place Nightclub in Hanley? I used to go there in the 80's. Good days. Live in wales now.

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.

@humbug4478

6 жыл бұрын

Peter Smith my dad and his family moved out here to Australia in the late 60's.

@Bulletguy07

3 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@humbug4478

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Bulletguy07

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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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!

What about DOULTON loved the figures toured the factory a few times

Always ignored until after Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds , Derby, Nottingham and Cheshire.

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.

a big nod to shelly's and the place......i came back for that

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.

😢 everything has gone

Hi there!! Would I be okay to sample the audio in this to make some music?

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!

And no mention of the Good Old OATCAKE...

The beauty that came from the ugly..

all gone now martin hanley's got no proper nightclubs anymore....

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

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. 🙏

So sad

Rather vile how folk describe this city.

masons chimney in the background

The potteries went downhill bad after the industry died

Sorry but it's still awful, for entirely different reasons

Hi, I am interested in the group of musicians & singers here at 20-34 to 21-31 please? Any comment on who they are??

@Stecluz

6 жыл бұрын

il try find out

@mrgoodintent

6 жыл бұрын

Great, I would appreciate that!

@copee2960

7 ай бұрын

I wonder if it's Franklin on the old Tom Tom's at the back.

Grimy and old,but at least it had full employment back then.

bentilee, for ex servicemen

The broken city... only way upwards is to move outwards to other cities with business plans or work for corporate.

@miawallace2785

4 жыл бұрын

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

STOKIES are gods people..14

the place is desolate now

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...

@Mark-ms5pn

5 жыл бұрын

What about EH?

@davidjames3080

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@davidjames3080

3 жыл бұрын

@@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...

@davidjames3080

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@johnbeggs9669

3 жыл бұрын

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