North Staffordshire History
Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands
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15 March 2025
His Superb Fighting Spirit
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Lance-Sergeant J. D. Baskeyfield VC Operation Market Garden, launched on 17 September 1944, was an Allied attempt to seize a series of strat...
18 August 2023
Hanley Goes to Hollywood
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Hanley Stafford, c.1945 Source: CBS Radio, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Alfred John Austin had been born in Hanley on 22 September 18...
26 March 2023
Boots! Boots! - A Potteries World Premier
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Probably at some point in early to mid July 1934, Burslem hosted the world premier of the first film of an up-and-coming star, when, accordi...
28 February 2022
In Glorious Biocolour
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In the early to mid 1920s, a pioneering film maker Claude Friese-Greene and his assistant, drove a car from Land's End to John O'Gr...
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