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from..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'

 

Stafford Lane 
(23, Percy Street)

—Here is Crown Bank—

 

OLD POST OFFICE BUILDINGS.

1 "Potteries Sporting News" Office 
Props., H. Austerberry and G. Whittaker 

2 Cooke, George, artist

3 Empire Typewriter Co ., Ltd.
Manager, C. H. Jones 

4 Bennett, S., designer and modeller 

8 Nixon, George, auctioneer &
certified bailiff 
Wilson, C. M., horse, carriage & harness repository 

 

—Here is Back Stafford Lane—

 

12 Lucas, Mrs. A ., coal dealer 

16 Plant, William, potter 

18 Sant, Mrs. Selina 

20 Hawthorne, Mrs. E.

—Here is Tontine Street-

 


 

Septimus Bennett working at 4 Stafford Lane as a designer and modeller was the brother of Enoch Arnold Bennett the writer. 

Septimus was born in 1877. By 1897 he was working at James Kent's Old Foley Pottery ["This firm of general domestic potters, Old Foley, Longton, Was founded by James Aloysius Kent (born 1864 died 1953) with five workmen from the firm of Barker & Kent (including Arnold Bennett's brother Septimus Bennett, modeller) in 1897." Mankowitz & Haggar]. 

 

 


Stafford Lane, Hanley - 2011 Bing Maps
Stafford Lane, Hanley - 2011 Bing Maps

 

1898 map of Stafford Lane
1898 map of Stafford Lane

 

1898 map of Hanley town centre
1898 map of Hanley town centre


 

corner of Percy Street and Stafford Lane
corner of Percy Street and Stafford Lane

 

Related Links... 


The Bennett household in Cobridge

Sydney Richard Sanders - apprentice modeller to Septimus Bennett


 

 


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