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Post by Eggybread on May 3, 2016 10:41:20 GMT
Ive just finished reading The War Of The Worlds last night for the fist time in donkeys years and I forgot that in the book The Potteries is mentioned. When the martians have just obliterated a few buildings H.G Wells describes the scene as total carnage and desolation with plumes of smoke rising in the distance.I can only describe it as like a scene from the Potteries.  So not much has changed in the last 120 year or so then. I was wondering if we get any more mentions in books.Please dont say the Naughty forty book and the like.  |
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Post by davethebass on May 3, 2016 11:31:14 GMT
There's a scene in the film The Bed Sitting Room that was filmed on a tip in Longton. Does that count?
"One scene is shot beside a pile upon which a British pottery firm had been throwing rejected plates since World War II[3] (the joke being that an actor is looking for a dish that isn't broken)." Wikipedia
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 11:39:05 GMT
I used to love the war of the worlds when I was younger. I could never believe we got a little mention  |
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Post by Dutchpeter on May 3, 2016 11:39:15 GMT
Ive just finished reading The War Of The Worlds last night for the fist time in donkeys years and I forgot that in the book The Potteries is mentioned. When the martians have just obliterated a few buildings H.G Wells describes the scene as total carnage and desolation with plumes of smoke rising in the distance.I can only describe it as like a scene from the Potteries. So not much has changed in the last 120 year os so then. I was wondering if we get any more mentions in books.Please dont say the Naughty forty book and the like. I seem to recall that Trentham Gardens and Shelton Bar are mentioned in war of the worlds too. Wells lived in Victoria Street Basford for a short time in 1888. There is a plaque that marks this occasion on the house now. His stay also inspired the short 'The Cone'. |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 12:08:27 GMT
Ive just finished reading The War Of The Worlds last night for the fist time in donkeys years and I forgot that in the book The Potteries is mentioned. When the martians have just obliterated a few buildings H.G Wells describes the scene as total carnage and desolation with plumes of smoke rising in the distance.I can only describe it as like a scene from the Potteries. So not much has changed in the last 120 year os so then. I was wondering if we get any more mentions in books.Please dont say the Naughty forty book and the like. I seem to recall that Trentham Gardens and Shelton Bar are mentioned in war of the worlds too. Wells lived in Victoria Street Basford for a short time in 1888. There is a plaque that marks this occasion on the house now. His stay also inspired the short 'The Cone'. Never knew that Pete...Cheers... Googled It and here ya go... www.thepotteries.org/did_you/012.htm |
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Post by supersimonstainrod on May 3, 2016 12:11:45 GMT
HG Wells?! Was completely unaware of that!
So our beloved city has been providing a,ahem,dystopian backdrop for literary and cinematic stories for many years?
Not just a recent thing then?
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 12:15:01 GMT
HG Wells?! Was completely unaware of that! So our beloved city has been providing a,ahem,dystopian backdrop for literary and cinematic stories for many years? Not just a recent thing then? Aint the oatcake brilliant for that. The gift that keeps on giving. I must admit when I log on the first page I always visit is the oatcake... Be Proud, Be Loyal, Be Stoke ( on Trent ) |
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Post by supersimonstainrod on May 3, 2016 12:34:24 GMT
HG Wells?! Was completely unaware of that! So our beloved city has been providing a,ahem,dystopian backdrop for literary and cinematic stories for many years? Not just a recent thing then? Aint the oatcake brilliant for that. The gift that keeps on giving. I must admit when I log on the first page I always visit is the oatcake... Be Proud, Be Loyal, Be Stoke ( on Trent ) Said exactly the same thing on the Tanks Thread: what you can learn from people when you set your preconceptions aside. As for the be Proud....I was having an albeit,good natured,argument with some Chelsea fans in a bar in Worcester t'other day and they were in full smokey Stoke,insular industrial shithole diatribe mode,when I replied that despite the place and the people having their detractors,if I ever was unfortunate enough to find myself in the trenches,I'd only want Stokies to the Left and Right of me. |
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Post by yeokel on May 3, 2016 20:23:35 GMT
H G Wells - War of the Worlds,
Just after the Martians have zapped a train....
"There was a light down below the hill, on the railway, near the arch, and several of the houses along the Maybury road and the streets near the station were glowing ruins. The light upon the railway puzzled me at first; there were a black heap and a vivid glare, and to the right of that a row of yellow oblongs. Then I perceived this was a wrecked train, the fore part smashed and on fire, the hinder carriages still upon the rails.
Between these three main centres of light—the houses, the train, and the burning county towards Chobham stretched irregular patches of dark country, broken here and there by intervals of dimly glowing and smoking ground. It was the strangest spectacle, that black expanse set with fire. It reminded me, more than anything else, of the Potteries at night."
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Post by salopstick on May 3, 2016 20:30:07 GMT
1963 AA Book of Great Britain
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Post by cheeesfreeex on May 3, 2016 21:01:29 GMT
Still reading 'Anna' Arnold Bennettt, this from the intro struck me.
"Staffordshire until the end of the Eighteenth Century, had been as remote from the rest of England as any part of the country could be.
Roads were bad, the great ports were all far distant. Though coal was mined, and a little pottery made, the county had no great industry.
Defoe travelling through it early in the Century, had noted only that Staffordshire men ran powerfully, sold horses with skill and brewed good ale, and were beginning to make clothes... even Staffordshire pots were stay at home. The men of Staffordshire were self sufficient."
The author John Wain was a N-u-L lad.
Part of the 'Angry Young' Sillitoe, Braine 'Room at the Top' scene.
I havn't read 'Hurry on Down' for ages, it's about a young man returning home after studying away, and falling out with every one {as I recall}.
It's broadly biographical and is Stoke/Newcastle based, but I can't remember whether he changes the place names nominally like Bennett does.
Anyone.
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Post by marwood on May 3, 2016 21:05:34 GMT
The Silmarillion -Tolkein - not as accessible as LOTR but good background reading
In "The Tale of the Sun And The Moon", there is reference to the village of Tavrobel. Christopher Tolkien, JRR's son and literary executor, says this village is based on Great Haywood,Stafford.
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Post by stayingupfor GermanStokie on May 4, 2016 9:03:40 GMT
The Silmarillion -Tolkein - not as accessible as LOTR but good background reading In "The Tale of the Sun And The Moon", there is reference to the village of Tavrobel. Christopher Tolkien, JRR's son and literary executor, says this village is based on Great Haywood,Stafford. Sorry to skew the thread, but have you read the children of Hurin by Tolkien.... Brilliant story and would be a worthy film. |
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Post by tuum on May 7, 2016 11:22:38 GMT
George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier.
"The North does not start at Birmingham. Birmingham is quite nice. Without a shadow of any doubt the North starts at Stoke on Trent..it's a grim shithole"
I am paraphrasing of course.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 7, 2016 16:31:28 GMT
Ive just finished reading The War Of The Worlds last night for the fist time in donkeys years and I forgot that in the book The Potteries is mentioned. When the martians have just obliterated a few buildings H.G Wells describes the scene as total carnage and desolation with plumes of smoke rising in the distance.I can only describe it as like a scene from the Potteries. So not much has changed in the last 120 year or so then. I was wondering if we get any more mentions in books.Please dont say the Naughty forty book and the like. Take a trip to Hanley Bus Station and you'll soon see the martians never left! |
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Post by Boothen on May 7, 2016 16:41:24 GMT
Ive just finished reading The War Of The Worlds last night for the fist time in donkeys years and I forgot that in the book The Potteries is mentioned. When the martians have just obliterated a few buildings H.G Wells describes the scene as total carnage and desolation with plumes of smoke rising in the distance.I can only describe it as like a scene from the Potteries. So not much has changed in the last 120 year os so then. I was wondering if we get any more mentions in books.Please dont say the Naughty forty book and the like. I seem to recall that Trentham Gardens and Shelton Bar are mentioned in war of the worlds too. Wells lived in Victoria Street Basford for a short time in 1888. There is a plaque that marks this occasion on the house now. His stay also inspired the short 'The Cone'. Yup, that house is just a few doors down from my Grandparent's old shop. |
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Post by harryburrows on May 7, 2016 17:46:02 GMT
The Silmarillion -Tolkein - not as accessible as LOTR but good background reading In "The Tale of the Sun And The Moon", there is reference to the village of Tavrobel. Christopher Tolkien, JRR's son and literary executor, says this village is based on Great Haywood,Stafford. Chris Tolkien was parish priest at hartshill Catholic Church when I attended |
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Post by trentvale68 on May 7, 2016 17:56:12 GMT
A local author, Richard Ayres wrote a very good book called Waterloo Sunset; featured characters from Stoke and referenced The Greyhound in Penkhull
Its a cracking read btw
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So not much has changed in the last 120 year or so then.
