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The traditions and techniques of making pottery established by the pioneers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were still largely in place by the middle years of the twentieth century. Coal firing was still dominant, and the cycle of loading, firing and unloading kilns meant that at there was at least one of a firm’s bottle oven’s being charged with coal and discharging the smoke that led to the Potteries maintaining an atmosphere and environment of smoke and grime. Smog, smoking bottle ovens and chimneys. The coal industry and its circle of coal mines around Newcastle-under Lyme - its huge workforce of miners, its waste tips, coal being transported by steak trains consuming more coal. Add to that the steelworks at Shelton Bar - its blast furnaces, the slag heaps and the tipping of slag turning the evening sky to carmine. This film chronicles the City’s transition from these ‘black’ times through the successive land reclamation and building conservation programmes of the late 20th Century, to present day clean technologies and rejuvenated open spaces.
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Brampton Park, ST5 0QP Newcastle under Lyme, United Kingdom, 12 Granville Avenue, Newcastle, ST5 1JH, United Kingdom, Newcastle-under-lyme
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