North Staffordshire History

Lance-Sergeant J. D. Baskeyfield VC Operation Market Garden, launched on 17 September 1944, was an Allied attempt to seize a series of strat...

Colin Melbourne's statue of R. J. Mitchell outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley. In 1911, long before he went on to desi...

On the afternoon of Sunday 9 May 1943, 40 year old colliery maintenance worker Joseph Boulton of 12 Blake Street, Burslem, was engaged with...

On 1 September 1939, Tom Rolt and his wife Angela were travelling along the Trent and Mersey canal aboard their narrowboat, Cressy . Arrivi...