News of an assassination - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This is how news of an assassination spread across Staffordshire on 29 June 1800 - together with the offer of a generous £20 reward for information.
Notices like this one would have appeared in public ...
Notice banning the sale and use of fireworks in Burslem
The Burslem authorities get tough on firework and firearm abuse on Guy Fawkes' night, 1819
(Document owned by the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke-On-Trent)
Notice from Ralph Wedgwood - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Glazes and Ovens
Printed notice from inventor Ralph Wedgwood.
He claims to have devised a way of recycling waste pottery to make glaze.
The glaze is touted as being of superior quality to lead ...
Notice on weights and measures - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During the early 1800s, people in the Potteries grew very wary about the use by dishonest traders of false weights and measures on market day.
Rip-off
It was the big 'rip-off' scandal of its time, ...
Notice regarding anti-social behaviour - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This notice warns locals that "riotous and disorderly" behaviour will not be tolerated in Burslem - especially on Sundays.
Bathing in the canal is another offence mentioned.
At a time when the church ...
Old Fire Station, Burslem
The old fire station was in Fountain Place at the top of Westport Road just along from the entrance to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Pottery. At the time of the photograph it was occupied by Edwin Longmore's ...
Old Fire Station, Hanley
In the foreground is Hanley Fire Station and behind the premises of Webberley Ltd, printers, stationers and booksellers. The camera is looking down Parliament Square towards Percy Street.
The Fire ...
Old Leek Town Hall and Lock Up, Market Place, Leek
View of the Old Town Hall, which was built in 1806. It was bought by a Mr Flower in 1872, who used some of the masonry on his home, Portland House in Rosebank Street. The stone pillars were placed on ...
Old Police Station, Longton
The old Longton Police Station on Sutherland Road. this photograph is taken looking towards the junction with Anchor Road and Market Street. The Heathcote Hotel is the building with the round tower on ...
Old Road, Upper Tean
Old Road looking south towards the High Street. On the left is the police house.
Postcard courtesy of Ivy Shore, nee Farmer.
Old stocks, Cheddelton
Stocks built into churchyard wall opposite the Black Lion, Cheddleton. They are believed to be old stone stocks and are set into the churchyard perimeter wall, opposite the Black Lion Inn. Since this ...
Old Town Hall, Stafford,
There has been a shire building in Stafford since the 1280s, used as a meeting place for the County Court and later for other civic meetings.
The Old Town Hall building was built in 1586. In 1795 ...
Old Water Conduit, Stafford,
An old water conduit unearthed during roadworks on Lichfield Road.
The lock-up can be seen on the left, used to temporarily detain local drunks and vagrants.
The public house is the White Lion.
Both ...
Opening up the fashion floor, Bratt & Dyke Department Store, Hanley
Builders working to add the third floor to Bratt and Dyke's Hanley Department Store.
Draper Oliver Dyke opened a shop in Hanley in 1890 with the financial support of Northwich draper and entrepreneur ...
Oulton, near Stone
Looking north-east through the village. The Police House (with the village policeman), the Wheatsheaf and the Brushmaker's Arms can all be seen on the right hand side.
This postcard view was published ...
Ox Roast on Market Square, Stafford
The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square.
Children sang the National ...
Ox Roast on Market Square, Stafford
The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square.
Children sang the National ...
Ox Roast on Market Square, Stafford
The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square.
Children sang the National ...