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George Robins Booth 
George Robins Booth was an earthenware manufacturer and miller of refined pigments for use in the pottery industry. He is also described as an 'Engineer and Furnace Builder, Dealer & Chapman'

 

 

Stoke-on-Trent is a unique city in England.

It made up of six distinct towns: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton - collectively known as "THE POTTERIES".
where  is Stoke-on-Trent?
 Bottle Kilns
 Facts and Figures
the six towns
Arnold Bennett's 5 towns
 timeline
key dates

 


Simeon Shaw

"History Of The Staffordshire Potteries ....."

 

  
Where is it?


When I was A Child - the story of an old English Potter in the 1840's


This cyclecar was manufactured by The Menley Motor Co. in Stoke-on-Trent in 1920
articles on districts in and around Stoke-on-Trent:
Adderley Green
Bank Top
Bentilee
Bradwell
Brownhills
Burslem - packhorse lanes
Church Lawton
Cobridge
Etruria
Foley
Hanley
Hanley to Burslem
Harecastle tunnels
Howard Place & Snow Hill
 Lane Delft
 Lane End
 Lower Lane
 Meir
Normacot
Red Street
Stoke
Sytch
Trubshaw Cross
Tunstall
Winton's Wood
Wolstanton

 

towns of the City of Stoke-on-Trent,
North Staffordshire

  

Tunstall

Burslem

Hanley

Stoke

Fenton

Longton
Tower Square, Tunstall
Tunstall is the most northern town of the city.  Historians have found that iron was being produced in the town as far back as 1280.		 Wedgwood's "Big House", Burslem
 "BURSLEM, an ancient town... the mother, as it is the metropolis, of the Staffordshire Potteries." 		 "The Man of Fire" statue, Hanley
 "Hanley, the most populous town in North Staffordshire, is generally described as the capital of the Potteries"		 Minton's library c.1878, Stoke
 "STOKE-UPON-TRENT, as its name implies, is pleasantly situated upon that river.... in 1874, it was made a municipal borough by Royal Charter."		 Town Hall and War Memorial, Fenton
 "LANE DELPH and FENTON are small places, but contain some extensive pottery works"		 Gladstone Bottle Kilns, Longton
 "As early as 1756, a manufactory of English porcelain was established here, and ware of great lightness and beauty was produced."

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