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a row of "Gold Coin" bricks
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the end of the local pub?


2nd September 2008
The Hulton Monks & Sneyd Green

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

Mow Cop - the birthplace of Primitive Methodism

 

 


There was one a railway loop line through the Potteries towns.

 

 

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."