Publisher's Synopsis
It was the decade of Teddy Boys and a new home entertainment called television. The Russians sent up the Sputnik space rocket and Stanley Matthews at last won an FA Cup medal. In the 1950s the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh came to Stoke City's Victoria Ground, the North Staffordshire University College (later Keele University) welcomed its first students and the last steam locomotive rolled out of Crewe Works.;These events and many more were pictured in the pages of "The Sentinel", the daily paper of the Potteries since 1873. Nearly 200 photographs from the 1950s have been put together in a collection which broadly reflects town and village life, people at work and many aspects of sport and entertainment. They represent the work of prominent photographers like Ernest Warrillow, Tom Woodward and Huston Spratt, all of whom spent their whole working lives on the local newspaper: "The Sentinel". Topicss covered include: the potteries; village life; people, parties and royals; out and about in Staffordshire and Cheshire; railways and emergency services; entertainment; and sport.
