ATV Today: 07.01.1974: Esperanto Pub

Summary

Peter Green visits the Esperanto pub, 'La Verde Stelo' (the Green Star) at Smallthorne in Stoke on Trent.

Year:

1974

Duration:

0:04:32

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Peter Green piece to camera outside the Green Star pub and exterior views. Esparanto speaking drinkers inside the pub including Horace Barks. Interview with the Mayor of Stoke on Trent, Arthur Cotton, who is also the pub's licensee, concerning the sort of people who go to his pub. Interview with Alderman Horace Barks (Mayor of Stoke on Trent 1950-51) who was one of the founders of the Esperanto centre in the city. Includes a bust of L.L. Zamenhof, a Polish ophthalmologist who published the first book detailing Esparanto and a Stoke-on-Trent street sign: 'Esparanto Way'.


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