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Market Square
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Arnold Bennett.
Enoch
Arnold Bennett
was born on 27 May 1867 at 90 Hope Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
In 1889 he left the Potteries to make his home in the capital where for a time he worked as a
solicitors clerk. By 1893 he had become a journalist and within three
years he was the editor of a London periodical .
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Sir Stanley Matthews.
One of the Potteries greatest sportsmen. Stanley Matthews was born on
February 1st 1915 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Matthew's began his professional career in
1931 He made his debut at the age of 17 for the local First Division
professional team Stoke City.
His subtle body swerves,
acceleration and superb ball control unsettled virtually every defender he
faced. At the age of 41, Matthews won the first-ever European Player of
the Year award. In 1965 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, becoming
the first active football player ever to receive the honour.
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Captain John Smith (of the Titanic) |
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Etruria
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Lord of the
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| Bagnall, Esq. of London, is lord
of the manor, and holds a court baron once a year; the King, as
Duke of Lancaster, holds also a court baron once in the same
period; and a court is held once a fortnight, for the recovery
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Meat market
"The Man of
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"HANLEY a large modern town
and chapelry, in the parish of Stoke, is about two miles east by
north of Newcastle, and ranks next to Burslem in size, extent
and opulence. The town is in an elevated situation, and the
streets forming which are irregular, but many of the houses are
well built. The chapelry contained, in 1821, 5,622
inhabitants."
1828 journal
"Hanley, the most
populous town in North Staffordshire, is generally described as
the capital of the Potteries, a title to which it has certainly
the greatest pretensions; ........ it has during the present
century made such strides in the art, as to overtake and pass
all competitors. At the census of 1891, the population of the
municipal borough reached the total of 54,846; and such is the
prosperity of the district, that at the present time this number
has been very largely increased.
1893 journal
Following on from Tunstall and Burslem, Hanley dominates the next hill on
the road south and was an important mining town surrounded by colliery
spoil tips which have now been landscaped and reclaimed, (The main area
being 'Central Forest Park').
Hanley became the main
shopping centre of the Potteries when, in 1910, it became a federated city
with the merger of all six towns.
Nowadays the town boasts a
large shopping centre and the city's Cultural Quarter comprising two
splendidly refurbished theatres, the The Regent, along with one
of the country's best concert venues, the Victoria Hall
Amongst some of the famous
people born in Hanley are football legend Sir Stanley Matthews and Captain
EJ Smith, the captain of the ill-fated Titanic.
The centre of Hanley retains its 'village roots' and is made up of
"an archipelago of island sites". It is the main shopping area
with many 'high street' names both in the town streets and shopping
centre.
On the site of the old Bell pottery stands
the Potteries Museum which houses one of the largest and most important
ceramics collection in the world. The museum also contains a Spitfire
airplane - a tribute to the designer Reginald Mitchell who was born in the
City.
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located in the town
include
Masons Ironstone ware which was made in the early nineteenths century factory
not far from the town centre. Nothing
is left of many other memorable Hanley pottery manufacturers such as New
Hall, Neale &
Wilson, Meigh or
Brown-Westhead and
Moore.
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Dates in the
history of Hanley & district
1227 - Hanley
known as 'Hanlih'. The name means either a high wood, or a
clearing in that wood.
1297 - References to coal mining at Shelton.
1685 - Thomas Miles of Shelton was producing white stone
ware.
1766 - Josiah Wedgwood I purchased the Ridgehouse Estate
and built a new factory there (opened on 13 June 1769). This
factory was the nucleus of an industrial village which he called
Etruria.
1769 - Josiah Wedgwood I opened his factory in Etruria
(on the side of what was to be the Trent and Mersey Canal).
1770 - Josiah Wedgwood I completes the building of
Etruria Hall.
1825 - Earliest gas works in the Potteries opened in
Shelton's Lower Bedford Street, under the ownership of the
British Gaslight Company, to supply Hanley and Stoke.
1857 - The townships of Hanley and Shelton, forming a
portion of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, were incorporated to
constitute the municipal borough of Hanley.
1869 - The Queen's Hotel in Albion Street Hanley build to
the design of Robert Scrivener. It was acquired by the Hanley
County Borough in 1888 and became the new Town Hall.
1888 - The Queen's Hotel in
Albion Street, Hanley converted by Hanley County Borough for use
as Hanley's Town Hall. The Victoria Hall, built on the rear was
opened. Victoria Hall was built to the designs of Hanley's
Borough Surveyor, Joseph Lobley to commemorate Queen Victoria's
Golden Jubilee.
1891 - The population of the municipal borough of Hanley
was 54,846.
1905 - Birches Head and part of Sneyd Green were added to
Hanley.
1911 - Population- Hanley: 66,255.
1986 - National Garden Festival held at Etruria on the
site of the old Shelton steel works.
Hanley's ring road the 'Potteries Way' opened in October 1986.
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Facts about
Hanley from old journals
Hanley forms the north-eastern
and highest part of town, and from it and Earl Granville's Coal
and Iron Works, an old tram road, now worked by a locomotive
engine, extends down to the Trent & Mersey Canal, at
Etruria, where it now also forms a junction with a station on
the North Staffordshire Railway. The houses have a neat
appearance and some of them are spacious and elegant, there
being here many of the most wealthy and extensive china and
earthenware manufacturers in the Potteries, and in the suburbs
are several coal and iron works.
It is well placed for
transit purposes, being quite close to the Cauldon branch of the
Trent and Mersey Canal, and occupies a healthy situation upon an
eminence overlooking the whole district.
The streets are wide and well
paved, being admirably lighted by the British Gas Light Company
Limited; while there is an excellent water supply by the
Staffordshire Potteries Water Works Company. The drainage system
has been carried out upon the most improved principles, the
configuration of the district admirably lending itself to a
perfect system of sewage; and the death rate of the borough is
remarkably low for an industrial town.
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Hanley from W. Yates' A Map of
the County of Stafford, 1775
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Hanley
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