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Dale Hall / Dalehall
Dalehall - a district of Burslem, arranged either side of Newcastle
Street. Nowadays Dalehall, although preceding it in antiquity has
been subsumed into the general area known as Middleport.
Dale Hall and the Burslem Family:
The Burslem family were living at Burslem by the end of the 13th
century. By the end of the 16th century their Burslem house was Dale
Hall, by 1616 they had moved their Burslem home to the Overhouse on
Burslem Bank, and on the division of the family estates in that year
the Overhouse and Dale Hall were assigned to Thomas Burslem, his
younger brother Robert taking the Park estate.
When Thomas died in 1628 both the Burslem properties passed to his
younger daughter Katherine and her husband William Colclough.
The location of Dale Hall:
Dale Hall, in the tenure of a
Thomas Robinson in 1666, passed on Katherine Colclough's death in
1669 to Burslem Wedgwood, her great-nephew. He may have been
living there in 1673, but the hall had evidently been abandoned by
the early 18th century. The site is thought to be in the built-up
area south-east of St. Paul's churchyard.
The development of Dale Hall:
By 1832 there were several streets of houses off Newcastle Street in
the Dale Hall area. Union Buildings in Newport Lane had been erected
by 1817; Mount Pleasant Buildings in Reid Street dated from 1819;
and Fountain Buildings in Newport Lane were built by Enoch Wood's
workers in 1824.
In the late 1830's Church Square, Newport Lane north of Newcastle
Street, and Lyndhurst Street were being laid out around St. Paul's
Church, Dale Hall (built in 1828–31).
Longport, however, remained distinct from Burslem, even in 1851 when
Dale Hall stood isolated between the two places. In the third
quarter of the century streets were constructed on both sides of
Newcastle Street, and the area around Longport station, opened in
1848, was developed. The streets laid out over the Davenports'
Longport Hall estate were being planned by 1885.
By the late 1950's several of the terraces off Newcastle Street had
been demolished or abandoned, and a new estate was being built on
the site of those in the area around Port Vale Street.
Toll gates:
The line of the road from Burslem to Trubshaw Cross was altered
so that it became the present Newcastle Street, and in 1828 the old
road was sold.
A toll-house and gate was erected in Newport Street at Dale Hall
between 1848 and 1851 to cover traffic using Port Vale Wharf
A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8 (1963)
Dale Hall in 1898:
1898 OS map of the
Dalehall area
St. Paul's parish church is clearly seen in the top right centre
of the map.
Adjoining the church and marked in dark blue is the Dale Hall Brick and Tile
Works
the green lines are Dale Street and Hall Street - indicative of the name of
the district
To the left the purple area is Portland House
The Pottery works of the Dale Hall Pottery and
Dale Hall Works are marked in light blue and red
adjoining the Dale Hall Works on the Trent and Mersey Canal is the Albany
Works
In the bottom right centre is The Newport Street Works of Wood & Sons
Dale Hall in 2008:
Google Maps 2008 map of the
Dalehall area
St. Paul's parish church can easily
located - unfortunately the "large and handsome Gothic edifice" of 1828
shown in the 1898 map was demolished in 1974 and replaces with a uninspiring
shed of a building.
marked in dark blue is the location of the old Dale Hall Brick and Tile
Works
the green lines show the still existent Dale Street and Hall Street -
indicative of the name of the district
To the left Portland House is still existent
and marked in purple
Steelite now occupy the three pottery works of
the Dale Hall Pottery, the Dale Hall Works and the Albany Works
In the bottom right centre the location of the now demolished works of Wood
& Sons is shown in yellow
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