North Staffordshire History

A Royal Marine private in 1815 Source: Wikimedia Commons In the pages of M. H. Miller’s interesting compilation, Leek: Fifty Years Ago , ca...

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

On 1 April 1852, the writer Charles Dickens wrote a letter to his wife Kate informing her ‘We think of going on tonight from Birmingham to S...

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

Hanley Stafford, c.1945 Source: CBS Radio, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Alfred John Austin had been born in Hanley on 22 September 18...

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...

In the 1970s, the jumbled bones of a man, minus a skull, several vertebrae and a thigh bone, were unearthed at Hulton Abbey. That they had b...

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...

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...

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...

Colin Melbourne's statue of R. J. Mitchell outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley. In 1911, long before he went on to desi...

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