North Staffordshire History

Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands

31 May 2023

England Expects

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'The Battle of Trafalgar' by William Clarkson Stanfield Source: Wikimedia Commons On 21 October 1805, a British fleet of 27 ships co...
01 May 2023

Here Lies (bits of) The Younger Despenser?

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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...
31 March 2023

A Very Gruesome Football

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A startling and macabre discovery was made on Sunday 29 December 1907 on the farm of Mr Bassett, of Trentham, next to the Staffordshire esta...
26 March 2023

Boots! Boots! - A Potteries World Premier

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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...
16 March 2023

In Grateful Memory of Timothy Trow

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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...
01 May 2022

The Man Who Missed Isandlwana

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British Mounted Infantry and Zulus at the Battle of Gingindlovu Newspaper accounts of the local soldiers involved in the battle of Isandlwan...
28 February 2022

In Glorious Biocolour

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In the early to mid 1920s, a pioneering film maker Claude Friese-Greene and his assistant, drove a car from Land's End to John O'Gr...
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