North Staffordshire History

For the soldiers, the end of the fighting in the Crimean War, came with the fall of the Russian port of Sebastopol on 5th September 1855. T...

On 9 July 1908, the Longton Park Fête was in full swing and as well as the numerous stalls, funfair rides and other amusements put on to ...

The Trenton basketball team 1896-97. Fred Cooper is bottom left with the ball, his friend Al Bratton is bottom right. In 1896, Frederi...

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

By the late 1700s, slavery, most notably the trade in African slaves, was being increasingly seen by many in Britain as a great mora...

Standing outside of the Brampton Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme is a large black-painted cannon, mounted on a cast-iron limber. This wa...

Railways, or at least horse-drawn or gravity drawn railroads, running to or from canal wharfs, had been employed on a small scale by local ...