North Staffordshire History

Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands

28 June 2023

Buffalo Bill Rides in... and Bows Out

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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...
22 June 2023

Victim of a Mineshaft

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Thomas Holland's demise as depicted on the front of the Illustrated Police News At about 6.50 am on 12 December 1903, Thomas Holland, a ...
20 June 2023

Vinegar and Vanity

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Some of the unusual and dangerous practices indulged in by teenage girls to make themselves look attractive, were highlighted in 1901 in the...

Murder in Mind

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During a visit to Liverpool, a financially insecure pottery manufacturer, Theophilus Smith of Tunstall, asked one of his creditors, a merch...
19 June 2023

Lights in the Night Sky

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During a spate of UFO reports across North Staffordshire, a large number of witnesses around Beverley Drive and Wendline Close in Bentilee r...
01 June 2023

Ghastly Relics - A Very Tall Tale of the Potteries

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Occasionally, stories related to the Potteries appeared in newspapers both in Britain and abroad that either cannot be proven (at least not ...
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...
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