Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/16/3/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date1960
DescriptionExtracts of speech, various aspects of the pottery trade, from manufacturing pottery to living in Stoke and growing up around the pottery industry.

Track 1: Men speak about the creative forces involved in being a potter, 0.30 mins
Track 2: Man speaking about the work of pottery making, 0.22 mins
Track 3: Stoke as the "best place in England", 0.36 mins
Track 4 - 7: Men speak of the nature of potters and the pottery industry and the growth of Stoke out of the former towns.
Track 8 - 9: Man speaks of the art of pottery, "the nearest thing that Man has got to Creation".
Track 10 - 12 : Men speaks of the history of pottery design.
Track 13: Man speaks of the relationship between designers and the workforce, 0.43 mins
Track 14 - 15: People speak about items of pottery and the "pure creation" of the craft.
Track 16 - 18: Man speaks about how his family trade is pottery and then men speak about the processes of pottery making, with the "romance" and "poetry" of industry.
Track 19: Men speak about individuality in pottery and the pottery trade, 0.41 mins
Track 20: Man speaks about funerary practices in the Stoke area, 2.13 mins
Track 21: Man speaks of the skills necessary to be a potter, 0.36 mins
Track 22: Woman speaks of items of decorative pottery, then man speaks of glazing techniques and memories of being a potter, 2.20 mins
Track 23: Pollution caused by pottery making and other recollections of working as potters, 1.23 mins
Track 24 - 26: Men speaking of the regeneration of the towns of the Stoke area, and short extracts of speech.

Total: 28.39 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF54900495480
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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