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...

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

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...

Mow Cop Castle from the Staffordshire side. To the north of Stoke-on-Trent and standing smack on the Staffordshire-Cheshire Border, the...

The memorial to the men lost in the disaster. At 7.50 am, on 1 January 1942,  a devastating explosion took place 800 yards below ground at...