North Staffordshire History
Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands
04 February 2024
Slaughter of the Innocents
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At about 10.10pm on the night of 28 May 1837 in Lane Delph, Fenton, on hearing a cry of ‘Murder’, a man in a nearby house and two customers ...
A Swedish Spy in the Valley of Crockery
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A portrait of R. R. Angerstein in 1755. Source: Wikimedia Commons A visitor to the mid-18th century Potteries was Reinhold R ΓΌ cker Angerste...
See a Fine Lady upon a White Horse
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Between 1697 and 1702, partly from a wish to improve her health and from an equally strong desire to see more of her native land, Lady Celia...
22 September 2023
The Ballad of Stevo and One-Armed Jack
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On 26 January 1895, 27 year old George Stevenson, a habitual petty criminal and deserter from the British army was shot and mortally wounded...
25 August 2023
The Lamppost of Beauty
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On 11 June 1956, 46 year old Arnold Machin and his 34 year old wife Pat of number 15 The Villas, Stoke, took a stand against the encroachmen...
18 August 2023
Hanley Goes to Hollywood
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Hanley Stafford, c.1945 Source: CBS Radio, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Alfred John Austin had been born in Hanley on 22 September 18...
06 July 2023
A Crime of Passion
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Brownhills Hall, from an engraving made some years later. Source: John Ward, The Borough of Stoke-Upon Trent (1848) In 1796 whilst visiting...
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