Discovering Local History 

Housing in Stoke-on-Trent

 

Living Conditions for the working class

 

The photographs below show reconstructions of the inside rooms of typical working-class housing in the Potteries

Figure 1 shows the interior of a living room. Note its 'bare' apparent and the utilitarian nature of it's furniture

 

Figure 1 Reconstruction of a Living Room 
(Potteries Museum and Art Gallery)

 

Figure 2 shows the interior of a wash room. Only the better off working class would have had separate wash rooms.

 

Figure 2 Reconstruction of a Wash Room 
(Potteries Museum and Art Gallery)

 

These pictures show two fairly typical working-class street scenes in the early years of the twentieth century. John Street was just a stone's throw from the centre of Hanley.

 

John Street, Hanley

 

 

 

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