What happened in June past?

1 June 1988

The £45 million Potteries Shopping Centre in Hanley opened on 1st June 1988


 

11 June 1953
Thomas Wedgwood is best known as a pioneer of photography - to commemorate this a plaque was made and presented by the directors of Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd of Barlaston. It was unveiled by Bertram Sinkinson, the President of the Royal Photographic Society. It was unveiled on the 11th June 1953

 

11 June 1991
The statue in Burslem Market Place, depicts Sir Henry Doulton wearing formal Victorian dress; his left hand holds his top hat, his right hand his umbrella, and he wears a flower in his button hole.
The sculpture was originally commissioned by Royal Doulton for the 1986 Stoke on Trent National Garden Festival in Etruria. It was re-installed in its current location and unveilled on June 11th 1991.
 

12 June 1851
Sir Oliver Lodge was born on June 12 1851 at 'The Views' Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.
From 1881 to 1890 he was a Professor of Physics at University College in Liverpool. 
He was knighted and made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1902. Lodge's original work in physics includes investigations of lightning, the voltaic cell and electrolysis, and electromagnetic waves.

13 June 1769
The Wedgwood Etruria Works, Etruria, Hanley were officially opened by Josiah Wedgwood I, who celebrated by the throwing of six ‘First Day’s’ Vases, on 13th June 1769. The land on which the factory was built, known as the Ridgehouse Estate, had been originally purchased by Josiah in 1767 for the sum of three thousand pounds. 
 

20 June 1834
The Church of St. James the Less in Longton (a Commissioners Church designed by J.Trubshaw) consecrated by the late venerated Bishop Ryder, on the same day as that of St. Mark's, Shelton (June 20th, 1834).
 

21 June 1854
T&R Boote SYDENHAM SHAPE, Tea Pot/Beverage server, with date mark of June 21,1854



 

27 June 1808
"Sing glory! hallelujah!. . .The Lord is with us still;
The little cloud's increasing. . .That arose upon Mow Hill."
this is the story of the Primitive Methodist Church - the Burslem Wesleyan Circuit Quarterly Meeting, who put Hugh Bourne out of fellowship on 27 June 1808, because of the camp meetings at Mow Cop, had no idea what they had started.

27 June 1964
Shelton Steel Works steel was to be continuously cast. Shelton chose to install a concast plant. Work began in 1961 with the clearing of two million tons of slag from the site before building work could begin, and ended with the first cast from the new plant on an historic 27th June 1964.