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Walk along Caldon Canal
District of the week
Person of the week


 Another Grand Tour of the Potteries 
No 4. Tunstall Park


  When I was a Child - life as a Mould Runner in the Potteries in the 1840's

Chapter 16 - The Sunday School and My Young Life


 

 

'City-Limits'
Walks & articles around the city


Moddershall to me looks utterly timeless

Climbing to the top of Wetley Rocks is no easy task

Werrington starts to make sense: Armshead, Salters, Washerwall

Etruria: hard times they must have been in Etruria in those days 

Stoke-upon-Trent, is as it was, motionless

Mount Pleasant doesn’t fit as well today as it did

Bagnall still retains a strong Elizabethan quintessence  

Hanley got there first in size and quality

Norton - in the Labour fold

It’s an interesting town Kidsgrove filled with interesting people

Trent Vale, probably the most important place in Stoke-on-Trent 


 

Stoke-on-Trent is a unique city in England.

It made up of six distinct towns: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton - collectively known as "THE POTTERIES".
where  is Stoke-on-Trent?
 Bottle Kilns
 Facts and Figures
the six towns
Arnold Bennett's 5 towns
 timeline
key dates

 Regeneration & renewal - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats......

The future's bright

Friday 17th June 2011. Remember that date, because it is the day on which the foundations were potentially laid for a brighter economic future for Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire.

The Family Silver...  it is clear that there is a desire from within the Civic Centre to build a supermarket on the Spode site, but the Spode Works is the biggest opportunity in the city right now. It presents the opportunity for the city to turn its back on the wrecking ball and rubble approach.

High Street Blues - In the Potteries we are well acquainted with high street problems: we have them, but multiplied by six. 

 

 

 
 


an installation produced by Malkin Tiles
 where is it?


When I was A Child - the story of an old English Potter


John Livesley - was a Potteries man who fought in the American Civil War.
articles on districts in and around Stoke-on-Trent:
Adderley Green
Bank Top
Bentilee
Bradwell
Brownhills
Burslem - packhorse lanes
Church Lawton
Cobridge
Etruria
Foley
Hanley
Hanley to Burslem
Harecastle tunnels
Howard Place & Snow Hill
 Lane Delft
 Lane End
 Lower Lane
 Meir
Normacot
Red Street
Stoke
Sytch
Trubshaw Cross
Tunstall
Winton's Wood
Wolstanton

 

towns of the City of Stoke-on-Trent,
North Staffordshire

  

Tunstall

Burslem

Hanley

Stoke

Fenton

Longton
Tower Square, Tunstall
Tunstall is the most northern town of the city.  Historians have found that iron was being produced in the town as far back as 1280.		 Wedgwood's "Big House", Burslem
 "BURSLEM, an ancient town... the mother, as it is the metropolis, of the Staffordshire Potteries." 		 "The Man of Fire" statue, Hanley
 "Hanley, the most populous town in North Staffordshire, is generally described as the capital of the Potteries"		 Minton's library c.1878, Stoke
 "STOKE-UPON-TRENT, as its name implies, is pleasantly situated upon that river.... in 1874, it was made a municipal borough by Royal Charter."		 Town Hall and War Memorial, Fenton
 "LANE DELPH and FENTON are small places, but contain some extensive pottery works"		 Gladstone Bottle Kilns, Longton
 "As early as 1756, a manufactory of English porcelain was established here, and ware of great lightness and beauty was produced."

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