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This pamphlet, entitled Inland Navigation, outlines the contribution of the Trent and Mersey Canal to the relief of the poor in Stoke-...
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In the early 1800s the Parish of Burslem was responsible for organising poor relief for the townspeople.
Local printer John Tregortha regularly ...
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This document provides an account of benefit payments in Burslem at the end of January 1813.
In 1811, the town's population had been 8,625.
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This list, compiled by Burslem's Parish Churchwardens, reveals some of the town's unemployment problems in the period around Christmas 1815 and Jan...
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This document provides an account of benefit payments in Burslem at the end of January 1813.
In 1811, the town's population had been 8,625.
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This meeting was held on Tuesday 18 February 1794 to discuss the possibility of building a House of Industry to administer relief to the poor of Bu...
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Family historians may relish this revealing booklet, which reports on the poverty suffered by the residents of Wolstanton, in Newcastle-under-Lyme,...
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'Almshouses at Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire,' showing the front of the building facing the street, with a classical double doorway and a path rail...
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'Bagot's Arms Houses (sic), Abbots Bromley,' showing a view looking up the street on the left. The gable end of a timbered house is on the right h...
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'Old Houses in Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire,' showing timbered houses with two gables, located on the corner of land leading to church. The almsh...
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View of the Market Square, which until 1953 was used as a car park.
In the centre is the Shire Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building to its left.
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Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house privat...
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