Another Grand Tour of the Potteries
Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding area

This section of the Potteries web site is based on an itinary which takes in all the districts of the City of Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding area.

It follows the format of the original 'Grand Tour' which Neville Malkin published in the Evening Sentinel between March 1974 and August 1976. In that time he drew a wide variety of the buildings of the Potteries. As in the original there are 110 sections, 82 within the city boundary and 28 outside - some sections revisit the places that Neville Malkin included in his tour. [see Neville Malkin's original Grand Tour]

Another Grand Tour is conducted by David Proudlove and Steve Birks. [see David Proudlove's articles on the heritage of Stoke-on-Trent]

 

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Section titles shown in bold are available - others will be added regularly.

4.	Tunstall Park/Victoria Park Road
5.	The Boulevard - War Memorial Gardens, Victoria Institute/Public Baths
6.	Tunstall Town Hall
7.	Forster Street
8.	Oldcourt Pottery

Burslem

[ location map ]

9.	Vale Park
10.	1/1a Queen Street (Kismet Indian restaurant)
11.	Royal Doulton, Nile Street
12.	Ceramica Pavilion
13.	Old Post Office
14.	Former Co-op Emporium
15.	Chelsea Works
16.	Price Street
17.	St John’s Square
18.	Fountain Court
19.	St Joseph’s RC Church
20.	Hill Works
21.	Overhouse Chambers
22.	Old Liberal Club

 

Longport / Middleport
23.	Ivy House/Topbridge Works
24.	Longport Station
25.	Duke of Bridgewater
26.	Longport Wharf
27.	Terraced Housing  - Port Street, Maddock Street, etc.
28.	Anderton Boatyard

 

Cobridge
29.	Waterloo Road Housing (Camoys Terrace, Grange House.)
30.	Moorcroft Pottery
31.	Former Little Sisters of the Poor

 

Hanley
32.	Old Town Road (Falcon Pottery, Former Spiritualist Church, The Golden Cup)
33.	The Place
34.	Man of Fire
35.	Former Sentinel Building
36.	Jovial Forrester’s
37.	Reginald Mitchell Theatre
38.	Regent Theatre
39.	The Unicorn
40.	Former Meat Market (The Tontine)
41.	Free Trade Buildings (Webberley’s)
42.	Victoria Hall Extension
43.	Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
44.	Hanley Library
45.	Smithfield Pottery
46.	The Coachmakers
47.	Johnson Brothers Bottle Ovens
48.	Terraced Housing (inc. Stanley Matthews’ House, Hole in the Wall Oatcake Shop)
49.	Eastwood Works (Emma Bridgewater)
50.	Jasper Street (Sacred Heart RC Church, Jasper Terrace, etc.)
51.	Hanley Mosque, Regent Road

 

Shelton
52.	Terraced Housing (Snow Hill, Shelton New Road, Havelock Place) , Bell & Bear
53.	Masonic Hall
54.	Pinfold Estate (Norfolk Street, Chatham Street, Wellesley Street, Richmond Terrace)
55.	Lock Keeper’s Cottage, Stoke Road
56.	Scrivener’s Villa, Howard Place
57.	Cemetery Road (Lodges, Cemetery Chapels, Villas, etc.)

 

Stoke
58.	University Quarter (inc. new buildings and Stoke Rep theatre)
59.	Dolby Pottery
60.	Brook Street
61.	Glebe Hotel
62.	Kings Hall
63.	Falcon Works
64.	The Villas

 

Fenton
65.	A Walk Around Fenton (Albert Square War Memorial, Christchurch Street: Lloyds Bank/The Arcade/Old Athenaeum, Fountain Street, Baker’s Housing, Foley Place, Location of Fenton Hall, Fenton Library, Christchurch Street Housing)

 

Longton
66.	Boundary Works
67.	Longton Railway Bridge
68.	Red and White Houses (follow-on from original Grand Tour)
69.	St James the Lesser
70.	St James’ School (Hothouse; link to original Grand Tour – Hothouse Phase II at Sutherland Institute which Malkin visited)
71.	Commerce Works
72.	Sutherland Works
73.	Enson Works/Short Street
74.	Aynsley China Works (Prince of Wales and Sydney Ranges)
75.	St Mary’s Works

 

Dresden
76.	A Walk Around Dresden (Peel Street, Ricardo Street – inc. Moneta House – also, Queens Park)

 

Trentham Lakes
77.	The Britannia Stadium

 

Penkhull and Hartshill
78.	Penkhull Garden Village
79.	St Christopher Avenue
80.	A Walk Around Hartshill (Minton Cottages, other housing, North Staffs Royal Infirmary, Stoke Cemetery)

 

Newcastle-under-Lyme
81.	New Victoria Theatre
82.	Georgian Newcastle (King Street, etc.)
83.	Lancaster Buildings
84.	Keele (University Complex and Keele Village)

 

North of the City - part 2
85.	Wedgwood Monument (Bignall Hill)
86.	Newchapel Observatory
87.	Mow Cop Castle

 

The Cheshire Set
88.	Horseshoe Inn, Newbold Astbury
89.	Little Moreton Hall
90.	Bosson’s Mill, Congleton
91.	The Counting House, Congleton (Wetherspoon’s)
92.	The Lion and Swan, Congleton
93.	Georgian Congleton (Moody Street, etc.)
94.	Congleton Town Hall
95.	Congleton Viaduct, North Rode
96.	Wincle Post Office Tower

 

Into the Moorlands
97.	The Big Mill, Leek
98.	St Edward the Confessor, Leek
99.	Clerk Bank, Leek
100.	The Foxlowe, Leek
101.	Nicholson War Memorial, Leek
102.	Ash Almshouses, Leek
103.	Pugin Country (From Alton Station: Alton Castle; Hospital of St John; St John’s Parish Church, etc.; Alton Towers; St Giles’, Cheadle)

 

Biddulph
104.	Old Biddulph Hall
105.	Biddulph Grange and Gardens
106.	Biddulph Arms Hotel
107.	Biddulph Town Hall
108.	The Villas
109.	Knypersley Crossroads
110.	Warder’s Lodge, Knypersley Pool

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Related pages..

Neville Malkin's original Grand Tour

David Proudlove's articles on the heritage of Stoke-on-Trent