North Staffordshire History

According to the tale told, in the 19th century the Etruria Grove, a copse planted on the orders of Josiah Wedgwood near to his factory alon...

At about a quarter past four on the afternoon of 13 April 1894, a three year old girl named Jane Ridgway who lived with her parents at Steel...

In early March 1783, the local economy was in decline and people were going hungry. A poor harvest the year before plus the knock-on economi...

Regular newspaper coverage of events in the Potteries only really started at the end of the 18th century with the advent in 1795 of the Staf...

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