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 5 May 2008 |
Bournes Bank Once part of a packhorse road which ran from Hanley through onto Church Lawton. Bournes Bank was originally called Church Street and was the main path down to St. John's Church and then on to Hanley. Many pottery and related industry buildings and businesses thrived on Bournes Bank. A school, an ice skating rink and two cinemas found their home on this unassuming road. |
| 17 April 2008 | |
| 15 April 2008 |
1763 - The potters petitioned Parliament to build
turnpike roads,
Wedgwood told them that the roads were "in very bad condition,
narrow in some parts, and in the Winter Season impassable in many
places". Parliament granted their Bill and turnpikes were
constructed. |
| 13 April 2008 |
new
summary page for Burslem -
the "mother of the potteries" seated
between Hanley and Tunstall. |
| 12 April 2008 |
Church Lawton - home of the Lawton family and Hall. The
Trent and Mersey canal and the Macclesfield canal junction is located nearby at Red Bull. |
 10 April 2008 |
Continuation of the walk along the 'old roads' of the city - this week .. James Brindley canal engineer |
 3 April 2008 |
continuation of Pevsner's architectural commentary on the Potteries towns... Stoke, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent Villages and Trentham Park |
 31 March 2008 |
Continuation of the walk along the 'old roads' of the city - this week ... Greengates and the Adams family - potters of Tunstall. |
 30 March 2008 |
There are two
Harecastle Tunnels, one of which is still in use today. The earlier
of the tunnels, built by Brindley, is now closed and disused. Yet
the Telford tunnel is used daily by canal boats coming to and from
the Potteries. Brindley's tunnel didn't have room for a towpath - the barges were legged through the tunnel and the horses taken over the hill along Boathorse Road. |
| 24 March 2008 |
Continuation of the walk along the 'old roads' of the city - this week .. Ladywell, Tunstall - 'a town of courts, wells and windmills'
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| 23 March 2008 |
Members of the
Adams family were Potters as
early as 1447. They rose to eminence in the trade in the eighteenth
century as Master Potters in Burslem and other parts of the Potteries,
working constantly side by side with the Tofts, Astburys, Daniels,
Wedgwoods. |
| 20 March 2008 |
Continuation of the walk along the 'old
roads' of the city - this week ..The young
surgeon, Dr Thomas Oliver, cut a pathetic figure as he was led to the
gallows at Stafford Gaol in 1797 for shooting dead John Wood of
Brownhills. |
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14 March 2008 |
Tunstall,
including its environs, is the pleasantest village in the pottery. It
stands on high ground and commands pleasing prospects. |
| 10 March 2008 |
Continuation of the walk along the 'old
roads' of the city - this week ...
Trubshaw Cross 'a Major gateway provides a glimpse into cities past'
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| 8 March 2008 |
"Brownhills
is situate upon the main Turnpike Road (from Burslem to Lawton,)
at the junction of the Branch which comes from Newcastle through Longport;
and is at nearly equal distances from the market-places of Tunstall and
Burslem; which are rather more than a mile apart. It is within the
township of Burslem, which extends, north-westward, as far as an inn
called High gate, close up to the town of Tunstall." |
 4 March 2008 |
‘Relics’ One of the most historically significant routes in the Potteries is Westport Road in Burslem, which links the Mother Town with Brownhills, just south of Tunstall, the route once being busy with export wagons en route to Liverpool (and on to the rest of the world) and the North. |
| 3 March 2008 | Continuation of the walk along the 'old roads' of the city - this week ..... Brad-Wall - a house on the western side of a large wood overlooking Tunstall and Burslem. |
 2 March 2008 |
Trubshaw Cross is the upper part of Longport, situated on the junction of Newcastle Street and Davenport Road - it was an important point on the packhorse lanes from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Burslem and Tunstall. |
| 29 February 2008 |
Continuation of the walk along the 'old
roads' of the city - this week
Dimsdale and the continuation of
the old Roman road |
 27 February 2008 |
Experts calculate that in the heyday there were up to 4,000 bottle kilns with as many as 2,000 still standing in the 1950's. The Clean Air Act sounded the death-knell for the smoky, coal fired oven. See photos of the 47 kilns still standing today - all are listed buildings
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 24 February 2008 |
Chris Oldham - photographic artist |
 18 February 2008 |
Cobridge - the Victorian suburb on route to Burslem A 'walk' around the old streets of Burslem - 'Packhorse Lane - the lifeline of the Potteries' |
 17 February 2008 |
Bradwell - the Hall, the wood, the tilery and the Eler brothers |
 16 February 2008 |
'The
Unknown Legends' Norton-in-the-Moors is where the city meets the moors, and has its roots in coal being home to Norton Colliery and a neighbour of Chatterley Whitfield. |
 10 February 2008 |
Significant packhorse lanes and later turnpike roads existed in Burslem - these were essential for the transport of raw materials into the town and the export of finished ware via Winsford and the River Weaver to the port of Liverpool. |
 9 February 2008 |
Photos of the remaining
Victorian Post Boxes in
Stoke-on-Trent (if you know of any others then please let me know) |
| 7 February 2008 |
- continuation of the 'walk' around the old
roads of Stoke-on-Trent .......
Hanley Lower Green |
Etruria |
Cobridge | |
 20 January 2008 |
Etruria has been created, nurtured and grown by men of local, national and international fame, without whom the story would never have been complete..... |
 16 January 2008 |
20 Snow Hill - The apartments are where Clarice Cliff lived from 1936 until she married her boss Colley Shorter in 1940. |
| 15 January 2008
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a "walk" around Station Road, the railway and North Stafford Hotel |
 15 January 2008 |
In the late
seventeenth century, Hanley consisted of two small hamlets known as Hanley
Upper Green (or just Upper Green) and Hanley Lower Green (or just Lower
Green). The centre of Hanley preserves the irregular layout of the late-18th-century village and in 1960 Mr. J. W. Plant the City Reconstruction Officer described it as 'an archipelago of island sites'. |
 12 January 2008 |
'Libraries gave us power' - each of Stoke-on-Trent’s six towns is blessed with its own public library, and each one is a major architectural statement. |
 10 January 2008 |
The history of part of Shelton - Stoke Road, Howard Place and Snow Hill |
 5 January 2008 |
Allan Chell's photos of the Granville Street / Waterloo Road area of Cobridge in the 1950's |
| 3 January 2008 | a "walk" around
Lower Lane, Fenton |
 3 January 2008 |
Complete section on Winton Square, its history and the listed buildings there. |
| 1 January 2008 | Entry on
Winton's Wood, Shelton - its history and current day
importance |