Date: 1909
Description: This is a film made by local film-maker and cinema owner George Barber, and it is Nash Peake Street in Tunstall in the Potteries. The street was identified by people from the public house which can be seen in the background in one shot. These are the dustmen. It’s very unusual to have these local domestic scenes filmed. Filming was usually reserved for special events and royal visits and so on. So this may be just to finish off the end of a film. It’s very valuable because it shows a scene down the ‘backs’ of the houses. Again, you can see what people were wearing and how children looked. This is looking across the valley at Sandyford – from Tunstall toward the other Pottery towns. Some tipping is going on. Here we see children standing in “the backs” as they were called – the back entries were “the backs”. And you will see someone throwing ash out of the back gate. It was a traditional thing – you threw the ash from the fire out of the back, so that ash was the main covering in “the backs”. And you just get a slightly longer view looking down the backs of Nash Peake Street in Tunstall to finish with.
This film also features in the documentary; “Stoke-on-Film, 1910-1930”, produced by Ray Johnson.
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