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photo walk around Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent |
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Fenton 'Athenaeum' High Street East (now City Road)
location 4 on the map |tour map|
next: Crossroads at the Royal Oak
previous: 'The Arcade' Christchurch Street
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On the right at the corner
of Church Street (now Christchurch Street) can be seen the corner of the
Fenton 'Athenaeum' built by William Baker IV in 1853 with a newsroom, In 1865 part of the building was leased to the Manchester & Liverpool District Banking Co., Ltd. and later the National Westminster Bank - it was demolished in 1977 and replaced by a modern bank building. The houses on the right
were built for the workers at Bakers potworks these are long gone and
the area is now the site of a car park.
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