Do you know what happened when the Romans left Britain?
The centuries after the Romans left Britain were once called the Dark Ages by historians. These centuries are some of the most mysterious in English history. They are also the most fascinating.
Month: Mar 2025
Lost Film Strips
Can You Help Us Find Them?
We hope to show a series of film strips during 2025, Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary Year. In 1960, schools in the six towns created these film strips. They were made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent’s creation.
North Staffordshire Heritage has the scripts for all these film strips. Unfortunately, we only have one film strip, the Township of Tunstall, which was made by Highgate Secondary School.
The film strips about Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton and Longton have been lost. If you can help us find them, please email northstaffordshireheritage@outlook.com
A Polluted Stream at Birchenwood
This image was taken at Birchenwood near Kidsgrove in 1994. It shows a polluted stream. The stream ran next to the route followed by the North Staffordshire Railway Company’s ‘loop line’. The line closed in the 1960s. It ran from Etruria to Kidsgrove. There were stations at Hanley, Waterloo Road, Cobridge, Burslem, Tunstall, Pitts Hill and Goldenhill.
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