North Staffordshire History

Elijah Fenton Elijah Fenton, poet, biographer and translator, was born at Shelton on 25 May 1683. His father John Fenton, an attorney a...

One of the least known literary associations with Staffordshire, is that of Charles Kingsley's novel Alton Locke. Tailor and Poet , ...

During the First World War, the action for the most part took place along a line of trenches stretching from the. Belgian coast, down to th...

Through the efforts of potters such as Thomas Whieldon, Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Spode and many others less well known, between 1750 and 1800...

On the afternoon of Sunday 9 May 1943, 40 year old colliery maintenance worker Joseph Boulton of 12 Blake Street, Burslem, was engaged with...

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...

Image reproduced with kind permission of The British Newspaper Archive ( www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ) Late in the eve...