Miles bank is is a triangular area amongst the "island sites" in Hanley town center. It is bounded by Stafford Street and Fountain Square.

Opened in 1888 "close to the tram terminus, a few minutes wall from the railway station, and in the best business part of Hanley..."

From: A descriptive account of The Potteries (illustrated)
1893 advertising and trade journal. Page 35

Mr. Edmund Jones, Pharmaceutical and Dispensing Chemist,
The Medical Hall, Miles Bank, Hanley

on the journal