Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
28 December 2024

Little Gypsy Girl

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Of all the famous names who have hailed from the Potteries, few in their lifetime gave more honest, unalloyed pleasure than Gertrude Astbury...
11 April 2021

Ken Ray's Soldiers: Private Philip Yates

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Ken Ray, a long-time researcher into the lives of local soldiers has assembled an impressive list of North Staffordshire men who served in t...
02 February 2021

Elizabeth Smith and the Mason Connection

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In the early 2000s I was contacted by Ernie Luck a collector and researcher of Mason's pottery who had been looking into a vague connect...
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...
09 November 2018

What the Potteries Gave to Basketball

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The Trenton basketball team 1896-97. Fred Cooper is bottom left with the ball, his friend Al Bratton is bottom right. In 1896, Frederi...
26 March 2018

A Titanic Engineer

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Stoke-on-Trent's best known connection with the Titanic disaster is of course the ship's venerable skipper, Captain E. J. Smith, ...
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...