Showing posts with label Tunstall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tunstall. Show all posts
13 February 2026

Potters at Waterloo

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French cuirassiers charge a British square at Waterloo, painting by Felix Philippoteaux. Source: Wikimedia Commons After three days of fight...
20 June 2023

Murder in Mind

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During a visit to Liverpool, a financially insecure pottery manufacturer, Theophilus Smith of Tunstall, asked one of his creditors, a merch...
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 ...
27 September 2020

Peace Celebrations 1814

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Napoleon Bonaparte Author's collection On 6 April 1814, with the last of his armies defeated and Allied forces fast closing on Paris, Na...
08 January 2020

Soprano: The Musical Career of Lily Lonsdale (1)

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'If only to hear the remarkable singing by Lily Lonsdale, the entertainments given by the Royal Gipsy Children are well worth atten...
07 January 2020

Soprano: The Musical Career of Lily Lonsdale (2)

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The Queens Palace, Rhyl In the first few years on the road Lily and Ernie appeared in numerous venues up and down the country, includin...
15 June 2018

Mow Cop Castle

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Mow Cop Castle from the Staffordshire side. To the north of Stoke-on-Trent and standing smack on the Staffordshire-Cheshire Border, the...
15 April 2018

The Railways Come to Town

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Railways, or at least horse-drawn or gravity drawn railroads, running to or from canal wharfs, had been employed on a small scale by local ...
04 March 2018

Zeppelins over the Potteries

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During the First World War, the action for the most part took place along a line of trenches stretching from the. Belgian coast, down to th...