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Crown Works,
Newcastle Street,
Burslem

Photo of the week

Where is it?

a copy of the pamphlet (and a transcription) accompanying the opening of a new Co-operative 'Emporium' in Burslem in September 1932.

The 1932 opening of the Co-operative Emporium in Burslem

Brownhills High School
- Fred Hughes' Local History Blog -

Another Grand Tour of the Potteries
No 14. Burslem & District Co-op

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

Chapter 21 - 'An Out' to Trentham at Tunstall Wakes

'City-Limits'
Walks & articles around the city

Blurton - hunting land for the Dukes of Sutherland

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

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

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.

"BURSLEM, an ancient town... the mother, as it is the metropolis, of the Staffordshire Potteries."

"Hanley, the most populous town in North Staffordshire, is generally described as the capital of the Potteries"

"STOKE-UPON-TRENT, as its name implies, is pleasantly situated upon that river.... in 1874, it was made a municipal borough by Royal Charter."

"LANE DELPH and FENTON are small places, but contain some extensive pottery works"

"As early as 1756, a manufactory of English porcelain was established here, and ware of great lightness and beauty was produced."