The collection of archive films and interviews from the Staffordshire Film Archive represents the best examples of Fenton captured on film from 1940 to the 1970s.
We begin with the City's jubilee celebrations in 1960, a Fenton man puts the case for the Six Towns maintaining their own identity. A scene from the 1970s Clayhanger series explains why Arnold Bennett left out Fenton when he called the Potteries "Five Towns".
We see some Digging for Victory in 1941, with scenes in Fenton Park and various Fenton allotments. At the end of the war we see street parties in Fenton to celebrate VE Day.
After the war we see pottery making at Shelly's - then at Crown Staffordshire in Fenton, where key scenes for the film "Five Towns" were made.
In the 1960s we see the start of the major reclamation schemes, and focus on the removal of the berry Hill pit tip in record time - the huge machines working on the tip while it was still burning.
Then MP Bob Cant sets the scene for the building of the Sixth Form College, and we end with some comments from the 1970s.
