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Stoke-on-Trent - photo of the week
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Broad Street, Hanley in 1957
Broad Street, Hanley in 1957
in the centre is the tall chimney of Ashworths Pottery
to the left is the smoking bottle kiln of Alcock, Lindley and Bloor
photo: 1957 - kindly supplied by Stoke-on-Trent City Council
The same view of Broad Street
in 2012
the bottle kilns and pottery factorys have long gone
some of the buildings can still be identified from the 1957 photo
to the left is Sun Street and to the far right is the Victoria Inn
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| 1 | Victoria Hotel (in 1907 was the Jug Hotel) |
| 2 | in 1907 was Alcock's wholesale & retail confectioner |
| 3 | Gomersall's Pawnbrokers - in 1907 was Capper's grocers |
| 4 | Finney's drapers (both in 1907 and in this 1957 photo) |
| 5 | the chimney of Ashworth's pottery factory |
| 6 | Black Lion public house on the corner of St.James Street |
| 7 | Robson's Ropery on Robson Street (was originally Slippery Street) |
| 8 | smoke from the pottery works of Alcock, Lindley and Bloore |
| 9 | Rising Sun public house on the corner of Sun Street |
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from: 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'
closer view of Gomersall's
pawnbrokers and Finney's drapers
Gomersall's Pawnbrokers
(closed Aug 2nd 1986)
this photo: c.2000
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Gomersalls occupied the two cream and white painted buildings. Horace Gomersall opened two pawnshops in Hanley in 1906/7, of which this was one. At one time there were around 50 pawnbrokers in the Potteries |
closer view of the Sun Street
side - the entrance to Robson's can be seen and to the right is the Black Lion
pub
The Black Lion at the junction
of Broad Street and St. James Street
now demolished to make the extension of the Potteries Way ring road
past the Tesco development
photo: c.2000
contents: 2013 photos
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Related links... Broad Street, Hanley - originally this was High Street, Shelton (certainly in 1843) by the time of the OS map in 1898 the street had been re-named 'Broad Street' - presumably to prevent confusion with the High Street in the north of Hanley, which led to Sneyd Green. Alcock, Lindley and Bloore Ltd The Victoria Pottery - Alcock, Lindley and Bloore purchased the Victoria Pottery in 1925
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