North Staffordshire History

In late August 1908, the Sentinel and numerous other papers up and down the country carried the story that an engineer, Mr A. T. Richenson....

Norman Saunder's illustration  showing the Time Traveller  rescuing Weena from the Morlocks in The Time Machine . (Wikimedia Commons) I ...

On 11 June 1956, 46 year old Arnold Machin and his 34 year old wife Pat of number 15 The Villas, Stoke, took a stand against the encroachmen...

Buffalo Bill and some of the Red Indians in 1890 Source: Wikimedia Commons On 17 August 1891, former hunter and US army scout turned impresa...

Some of the unusual and dangerous practices indulged in by teenage girls to make themselves look attractive, were highlighted in 1901 in the...

During a spate of UFO reports across North Staffordshire, a large number of witnesses around Beverley Drive and Wendline Close in Bentilee r...

Occasionally, stories related to the Potteries appeared in newspapers both in Britain and abroad that either cannot be proven (at least not ...

A startling and macabre discovery was made on Sunday 29 December 1907 on the farm of Mr Bassett, of Trentham, next to the Staffordshire esta...

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...

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

When he paid a visit to the Potteries in the summer of 1874, journalist James Greenwood noted that Hanley was a town full of dogs: ...

Standing outside of the Brampton Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme is a large black-painted cannon, mounted on a cast-iron limber. This wa...