Showing posts with label Shelton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shelton. Show all posts
01 May 2022

The Man Who Missed Isandlwana

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British Mounted Infantry and Zulus at the Battle of Gingindlovu Newspaper accounts of the local soldiers involved in the battle of Isandlwan...
08 June 2021

The Great Storm of 1872

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B eing situated in such a hilly region, widespread flooding is a rarity in Stoke-on-Trent, but occasionally chance extremes of weather have ...
16 November 2020

A Disposition to Riot

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Between 1799 and 1801 food riots, brought on by scarcity and high prices which in turn had been caused by poor harvests and the effects of N...
30 August 2020

Up, Up and Away

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Balloonist Charles Green later in life. Charles Green was quite a celebrity when he arrived in the Potteries in early October 1826. A p...
13 March 2018

Elijah Fenton

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Elijah Fenton Elijah Fenton, poet, biographer and translator, was born at Shelton on 25 May 1683. His father John Fenton, an attorney a...

Thomas Cooper Sparks the Pottery Riots

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One of the least known literary associations with Staffordshire, is that of Charles Kingsley's novel Alton Locke. Tailor and Poet , ...
23 January 2018

The Curious Case of the Dwarf and the Bulldog.

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Brummy and Physic battle it out. Low Life Deeps . In a detailed and lurid article published on 6 July 1874 in the Daily Telegraph , inve...
22 January 2018

Last Stand at Isandlwana

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The Battle of Isandhlwana by Charles Edwin Fripp On 22 January 1879, a British force of over 1,300 men, mostly from t...