Another Grand Tour of the Potteries
Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding area

This section of the Potteries web site is based on an itinary which takes in all the districts of the City of Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding area.

It follows the format of the original 'Grand Tour' which Neville Malkin published in the Evening Sentinel between March 1974 and August 1976. In that time he drew a wide variety of the buildings of the Potteries. As in the original there are 110 sections, 82 within the city boundary and 28 outside - some sections revisit the places that Neville Malkin included in his tour. [see Neville Malkin's original Grand Tour]

Another Grand Tour is conducted by David Proudlove and Steve Birks. [see David Proudlove's articles on the heritage of Stoke-on-Trent]

 


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Section titles shown in bold are available - others will be added regularly.

 

North of the City - part 1

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1.

Elm Tree House, Packmoor

2.

Brindley Ford First School, Brindley Ford

3.

Chatterley Whitfield Colliery

Tunstall

[ location map ]

4.

Tunstall Park/Victoria Park Road

5.

The Boulevard - War Memorial Gardens, Victoria Institute/Public Baths

6.

Tunstall Town Hall

7.

Forster Street

8.

Oldcourt Pottery

Burslem

[ location map ]

9.

Vale Park 

10.

1/1a Queen Street (Kismet Indian restaurant) 

11.

Royal Doulton, Nile Street 

12.

Ceramica Pavilion 

13.

Old Post Office

14.

Former Co-op Emporium 

15.

Chelsea Works

16.

Price Street

17.

St John’s Square

18.

Fountain Court 

19.

St Joseph’s RC Church 

20.

Hill Works

21.

Overhouse Chambers

22.

Old Liberal Club

 

Longport / Middleport

23.

Ivy House/Topbridge Works

24.

Longport Station

25.

Duke of Bridgewater

26.

Longport Wharf

27.

Terraced Housing  - Port Street, Maddock Street, etc.

28.

Anderton Boatyard

 

Cobridge

29.

Waterloo Road Housing (Camoys Terrace, Grange House.)

30.

Moorcroft Pottery

31.

Former Little Sisters of the Poor

 

Hanley

32.

Old Town Road (Falcon Pottery, Former Spiritualist Church, The Golden Cup)

33.

The Place

34.

Man of Fire

35.

Former Sentinel Building

36.

Jovial Forrester’s

37.

Reginald Mitchell Theatre

38.

Regent Theatre

39.

The Unicorn

40.

Former Meat Market (The Tontine)

41.

Free Trade Buildings (Webberley’s)

42.

Victoria Hall Extension

43.

Potteries Museum and Art Gallery

44.

Hanley Library

45.

Smithfield Pottery

46.

The Coachmakers

47.

Johnson Brothers Bottle Ovens

48.

Terraced Housing (inc. Stanley Matthews’ House, Hole in the Wall Oatcake Shop)

49.

Eastwood Works (Emma Bridgewater)

50.

Jasper Street (Sacred Heart RC Church, Jasper Terrace, etc.)

51.

Hanley Mosque, Regent Road

 

Shelton

52.

Terraced Housing (Snow Hill, Shelton New Road, Havelock Place) , Bell & Bear

53.

Masonic Hall

54.

Pinfold Estate (Norfolk Street, Chatham Street, Wellesley Street, Richmond Terrace)

55.

Lock Keeper’s Cottage, Stoke Road

56.

Scrivener’s Villa, Howard Place

57.

Cemetery Road (Lodges, Cemetery Chapels, Villas, etc.)

 

Stoke

58.

University Quarter (inc. new buildings and Stoke Rep theatre)

59.

Dolby Pottery

60.

Brook Street

61.

Glebe Hotel

62.

Kings Hall

63.

Falcon Works

64.

The Villas

 

Fenton

65.

A Walk Around Fenton (Albert Square War Memorial, Christchurch Street: Lloyds Bank/The Arcade/Old Athenaeum, Fountain Street, Baker’s Housing, Foley Place, Location of Fenton Hall, Fenton Library, Christchurch Street Housing)

 

Longton

66.

Boundary Works

67.

Longton Railway Bridge

68.

Red and White Houses (follow-on from original Grand Tour)

69.

St James the Lesser

70.

St James’ School (Hothouse; link to original Grand Tour – Hothouse Phase II at Sutherland Institute which Malkin visited)

71.

Commerce Works

72.

Sutherland Works

73.

Enson Works/Short Street

74.

Aynsley China Works (Prince of Wales and Sydney Ranges)

75.

St Mary’s Works

 

Dresden

76.

A Walk Around Dresden (Peel Street, Ricardo Street – inc. Moneta House – also, Queens Park)

 

Trentham Lakes

77.

The Britannia Stadium

 

Penkhull and Hartshill

78.

Penkhull Garden Village

79.

St Christopher Avenue

80.

A Walk Around Hartshill (Minton Cottages, other housing, North Staffs Royal Infirmary, Stoke Cemetery)

 

Newcastle-under-Lyme

81.

New Victoria Theatre

82.

Georgian Newcastle (King Street, etc.)

83.

Lancaster Buildings

84.

Keele (University Complex and Keele Village)

 

North of the City - part 2

85.

Wedgwood Monument (Bignall Hill)

86.

Newchapel Observatory

87.

Mow Cop Castle

 

The Cheshire Set

88.

Horseshoe Inn, Newbold Astbury

89.

Little Moreton Hall

90.

Bosson’s Mill, Congleton

91.

The Counting House, Congleton (Wetherspoon’s)

92.

The Lion and Swan, Congleton

93.

Georgian Congleton (Moody Street, etc.)

94.

Congleton Town Hall

95.

Congleton Viaduct, North Rode

96.

Wincle Post Office Tower

 

Into the Moorlands

97.

The Big Mill, Leek

98.

St Edward the Confessor, Leek

99.

Clerk Bank, Leek

100.

The Foxlowe, Leek

101.

Nicholson War Memorial, Leek

102.

Ash Almshouses, Leek

103.

Pugin Country (From Alton Station: Alton Castle; Hospital of St John; St John’s Parish Church, etc.; Alton Towers; St Giles’, Cheadle)

 

Biddulph

104.

Old Biddulph Hall

105.

Biddulph Grange and Gardens

106.

Biddulph Arms Hotel

107.

Biddulph Town Hall

108.

The Villas

109.

Knypersley Crossroads

110.

Warder’s Lodge, Knypersley Pool


 

 

Related pages..


Neville Malkin's original Grand Tour

David Proudlove's articles on the heritage of Stoke-on-Trent