What happened in April past?

April 1948
 
In April 1948 the British Ceramic Research Association was created by the fusion of the British Refractories Research Association, which had been in existence since 1920 and the British Pottery Research Association, which was founded in 1937.
The joining together of the two associations resulted from a realization that the ceramic industry might best be served by a single research organization.

3 April 1772
Hugh Bourne - the founder of Primitive Methodism, was born at Ford Hayes Farm, Bucknall, on April 3, 1772. He was a shy man who, until his conversion in 1799, lived with an intense fear of falling into hell.

13 April 1894
"Imagine the scene in 1894. In those days London Road was a cobbled highway, resounding to the screech of steam-trams as they slowed to a halt near this spot. Between pavement and water's edge were iron railings and a row of tall trees. As a tram drew close at 4 o'clock, one April afternoon, its young conductor heard screams coming from the canal. He looked up and, seeing a little girl, terrified and flailing desperately to stay afloat, wasted no time in vaulting the railings and plunging into the chill water to her rescue. By fate's intervention, he was tragically seized by a violent cramp and sank like a stone to the bottom. The child was later pulled out alive."

14 April 1958
Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret visited the the Adderley Green Factories of Richards Tiles Ltd. on Monday April 14th 1958. 
 

18 April 1894
A Higher Grade School was opened in Hanley on April 18th 1894. 
The school was renamed in 1905 as Hanley Municipal Secondary School and eventually Hanley High School with Grammar School status on the same site. Although a boys' school for many years it was mixed in later years. 

20 April 1914
Jointly funded by Stoke-on-Trent County Borough and Staffordshire County Council, the mining school was designed by the architects for the education committees of the two authorities, John Hutchings and S.B. Ashworth. It housed the Central School of Science and Technology, where pottery, mining and general science were taught from 1914.
 

23 April 1913
On April 23rd 1913, King George V and Queen Mary visited the Birchenwood coaking plant. They were shown the impressive new equipment that was turning 7000 tons of coal into 4500 tons of coke each week, and all the remaining by-products dealt with in the recovery ovens.
 

26 April 2000
After 159 tears of steelmaking the death knell sounds for Shelton Bar. Families have been left devastated by the closure of Shelton Bar steelworks. Stoke-on-Trent has lost a local institution, an industry and a part of its history.
Almost 300 workers have lost jobs and a way of life.
 

29 April 1969
Pit-head wheel at Central Forest Park -

Hanley Deep Pit was closed in 1962. Afterwards, the land was reclaimed and transformed into a public park, now known as Central Forest Park. The pithead wheel serves as a monument to the former use of the land for mining.

30 April 1836
A new Stoke-upon-Trent Poor Law Parish was formed on 30th April 1836, governed by an elected Board of 24 Guardians. The new Union had had a population of 37,220 in the 1831 census, and a poor-relief expenditure of £11,550 for the period 1833-5. The existing parish workhouse was taken over by the new administration.