In this episode I travel between the mines of the former working colliery at Apedale Heritage Centre and Middleport's Pottery museum, linking up with volunteers involved in proto-type project 'Pit to Pots' led by Middleport communications manager Sarah Nadin. The future hope of this venture is of engaging the communities of North Staffordshire and the Potteries with their heritage, through an interactive guided tour, and enabling people to see just how the industries of Mining and Pottery are entwined.Music by www.bensounds.com For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I catch up with Vera Grange and Ruth Shaw, two women who have been reunited after 75-year, listen to them tell their tale of life in the Clearing Banks in Trentham's Ballroom following the move from London of the nations finances.Sounds by www.bensounds.com For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I catch up with the cast of Claybody Theatre's latest local based production The D Road, and speak to its creator and writer Deb McAndrew, alongside director Conrad Nelson, about the inspiration which drove them to tackle such a divisive subject as the A500, which has continued to split a city decades after its creation. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this latest episode, hear veteran of the Second World War former Royal Navy Medic Vincent Orton talk about volunteering as an 18-year-old and touching down on Juno beach the day after D-DAY to tend to wounded troops as they made their way through France. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode catch up with Burt Turner, 95, who from a Volunteer for the RAF carved out a career as an engineer on board Stirling Bombers during WW2, here he recalls his involvement in the Operation Market Garden and beingshot down at the Battle of Arnhem 75-years on.Conversation in this podcast contains some brief references to battle and fatalities in WW2 which some people may find upsetting.Music by www.bensounds.com For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Stoke-on-Trent North Labour MP Joan Walley looks back on her journey to visit the region and people of Kashmir in 1991, following calls from her own local Kashmir community to help address the conflict and suffering of their families there.Backing music by www.bensounds.com For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The Way We Were podcast join me Adam Gratton as I chat to DJ, Musician and clubber Ben McManus about the lat two decades in clubland and his life behind the decks.Backing music by www.bensounds.com For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I hear from pupils at St Mary's school Tunstall, who in working on a WW2 project continued to dig deeper and in doing so learn about the heroics of Staffordshire's John BaskeyField. They have gone on to write letters in his memory thanking and hoping to track down members of his family 75-years on from D-DAY. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here me, Adam Gratton, talk to local North Staffordshire historian Mervyn Edwards about the picture houses and cinemas of the regions past as well as his own memorable encounters with the silver screens of the area. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the third and final part of our D-DAY commemorations, hear from WW2 veteran Daniel Harrison as he talks to Adam Gratton about his time in France following the Normandy landings For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices