North Staffordshire History
Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands
28 February 2018
The Last Bottle Oven Firing
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The kiln used for the firing at the Hudson and Middleton factory, Longton. On 29 August 1978, t he last ever firing of pottery in a co...
27 February 2018
Death of a Lady Artist
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Image reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive ( www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ) Late in the eve...
31 January 2018
News and a Narrowboat
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On 1 September 1939, Tom Rolt and his wife Angela were travelling along the Trent and Mersey canal aboard their narrowboat, Cressy . Arrivi...
26 January 2018
Hannah Dale - The Child of Wonder.
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A wildly exaggerated publicity image of Hannah Dale c.1889. Author's collection. Hannah Dale, 'the Staffordshire Giantes...
24 January 2018
Captain Smith Tells a Tale
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Hanley-born Commander Edward John Smith is best remembered as the captain of the ill-fated White Star Line steamer RMS Titanic , which sank...
23 January 2018
The Curious Case of the Dwarf and the Bulldog.
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Brummy and Physic battle it out. Low Life Deeps . In a detailed and lurid article published on 6 July 1874 in the Daily Telegraph , inve...
22 January 2018
Last Stand at Isandlwana
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The Battle of Isandhlwana by Charles Edwin Fripp On 22 January 1879, a British force of over 1,300 men, mostly from t...
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