GERTIE GITANA - The Star Who Never Fails to Shine

GERTIE GITANA - The Star Who Never Fails to ShineBorn in Stoke on Trent, Gertie was one of our greatest Music Hall artists. She became "The Tommies' Favourite Songbird" during WWI The Forces' Favourite and some of her contemporary songs were popular among the forces at the Front when they adopted them and added their own lyrics (some of these songs feature in the stage play and film Oh What a Lovely War). Archive film footage helps tell her story, we then chart her career through to retirement in

Newcastle-under-Lyme

and the removal of Berry Hill pit tip in record time the pit still burning while the huge machines scraped it away

The Gypsies

Homemaker - 60th Anniversary

In addition

The route of the line is now a popular walking and cycling trail through the Manifold Valley

opened in 1981 - film of all the work on the scheme to completion

We are looking into some of the issues still being kept alive by experts and enthusiasts - a sounding out of further Echoes of Titanic

the Golden Torch and other nightspots opened and the City's nightlife boomed

but freight traffic never reached the high expectations of its prospectus

25 miles on a 2'6" gauge line from Waterhouses to Hulme End

theatre scripts