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An Address to the Public in Answer to the Case of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

Controversial Proposals The Trent and Mersey Canal Company has recently issued controversial proposals to build a reservoir and extend a branch canal to Leek. This pamphlet, sent to Enoch Wood's ...

An Anglo-Saxon lord, Codsall 1086

The earliest mention of Codsall is in the Domesday survey of 1086 [first 3 lines of the extract above]. It is written in abbreviated Latin and begins, ‘ In Seisdon Hundred Cynewin holds from the King ...

AN IMITATION Of one of "Moore's Melodies" - Broadside ballad sheet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

A call to the INDEPENDENT FREEHOLDERS OF STAFFORDSHIRE This song urges local freeholders to vote for a candidate named Dent. The 'Dent' mentioned, who used the tune from Moore for his song, was John ...

An Old Footpath, Moddershall. Photographed by William Blake.

Woodland scene taken at Moddershall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

An Oven Opened. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide looking into a hot oven. The stacked saggars can be seen inside. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire ...

An Oven Opened. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide looking into a hot oven. The stacked saggars can be seen inside. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire ...

Anchor Road, Adderley Green. Photographed by William Blake.

Street scene with a view of Anchor road, Adderley Green, Nr. Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The left hand turning is Gladstone Street, which is now called Bambury Street. The Railway Hotel ...

Ancient Corn Pot. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide of an ancient corn pot. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A small folder containing ...

Ancient Corn Pot. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide of an ancient corn pot. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A small folder containing ...

Anderton Carrying Company - document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

In the spring of 1838, James Macintyre, Agent for the Anderton Carrying Company, wrote this confident letter to Staffordshire's pottery manufacturers to celebrate his canal company's success. He announced ...

Annscroft Cottage, Hilderstone. Photographed by William Blake.

Village scene with a view of Annscroft Cottage, Hilderstone, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire.

Annual General Meeting of the Manufacturers of China and Earthenware - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

During the career of Burslem pottery manufacturer Enoch Wood (1759 - 1840), industry bosses frequently gathered to discuss pressing issues and find common solutions to particular problems that they faced. 1812: ...

Anti-Slavery petition to be organised in Stoke-on-Trent - A notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

Once Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1804-5, a new organisation known as the African Institution tried to maintain the momentum of the anti-slavery movement. Now they called for other countries ...

Armistice Day Ceremony, Cannock Chase

Leonora, Countess of Lichfield, and Patrick, 5th Earl of Lichfield laying a wreath at the annual Remembrance Day Serice at the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase.

Arnold Bennett's grave in Burslem Cemetery

Burslem Cemetery was consecrated in 1879. It lies between Hanley Road, Leek New Road and the grassed over spoil tip of Sneyd Colliery. The cemetery chapel was demolished in 2008. Arnold Bennett died ...

Arnold Bennett's House and Museum, Cobridge, Stoke-upon-Trent

The house at 205 Waterloo Road, Cobridge that was once the home of Potteries writer Arnold Bennett and later, for a short time, the Arnold Bennett Museum. Arnold Bennett's father, Enoch, who was a solicitor, ...

Arthur Mainwaring

Arthur Mainwaring (1668-1712, here spelled Manwaringe) of Ightfield, near Whitchurch, Shropshire. he was a poet, editor and Whig politician. An engraving by I. Simon after a painting by Sir Godfrey ...

Arthur Scargill at a miner's strike demonstration, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent 1984.

Arthur Scargill was President of the National Union of Mineworkers during the 1984 - 1985 miner's strike and became a household name. He attended rallys and demonstrations throughout the country including ...