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March 1977
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, the
first mine in Britain to produce one million tons of coal a year closed in
March 1977, after 140 years
of continuous production.
March 1795
Thomas Whieldon dies - Thomas Whieldon of
Fenton Low (or Little Fenton), Stoke-on-Trent, was probably the leading
potter of his day and he had great influence on other famous potters.
4th March 1990
 The
jug, also known as Ozzie, can be used as a drinking vessel, as the head
comes off and forms a cup. Ozzie was first seen on an edition of the
Antiques Roadshow on 4th March
1990, and was bought by the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery soon
afterwards.
5th March 1808
 Smith
Child - born 5th March 1808
at Newfield Hall, Tunstall and died in Stallington Hall on 27th March
1896.
Sir Smith Child: "He contributed annually to the Staffordshire Infirmary,
served as president and vice-president of its general management committee
and was elected a patron in 1895. In 1877 he built and endowed the Smith
Child ward, originally intended for incurable patients but eventually
opened as a children’s hospital. Two years earlier he had founded the
North Staffordshire Incurables Fund, for sending . patients on holiday. He
also. supported, in Tunstall, the local Nursing Society and the Samaritan
Society, and at Longton the Cottage Hospital.
11th March
1765
"On Friday
last I dined with Mr. Brindley, the Duke of
Bridgewater's
engineer, after which we had a meeting at the
Leopard on the
subject of a Navigation from Hull.... to
Burslem" – Josiah
Wedgwood, 11th March 1765.
12th March 1780
William Clowes was born in
Burslem on March 12, 1780, a
relative of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side. William became a highly
skilful master potter, as well as a notorious drinker, gambler, womaniser
and fighter, but was remarkably converted at an evangelistic meeting in
Congleton in 1804, following what Hugh Bourne described as yet another
"extraordinary outpouring of the Spirit." Clowes was to become a powerful
evangelist and a leader in the revival."
14th March
1910
 Against
opposition Malkin pushed through the building of a new (Burslem's third)
town hall - it was hoped that this would be the municipal centre of the
anticipated federation (because of Burslem's position as 'The Mother
Town').
The foundation stone was laid by Alderman Malkin on 14 March 1910, however
by the time it was completed in 1911 it was redundant as Stoke had been
chosen as the civic centre.
Burslem's 'town hall' became the Queen's Theatre and was known as 'Malkin's
Folly'
23rd March 1733
Josiah Spode (1733-1797)
Founder of the Spode pottery
manufactory and known as Josiah Spode I even though his father was also a
Josiah Spode. Josiah I was born on 23rd
March 1733 - the only son of
poor parents in Lane Delph a village in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire,
England. When he was six, his father died and was buried in a pauper's
grave.
From the age of 16 in 1749, Josiah was apprenticed to one of the best
potters in the area, Thomas Whieldon.
27th March 1931
Arnold Bennett - the great Potteries’ man of letters was born in Hanley on
27th May 1867 and he died in London on 27th
March 1931. So is there a
bigger story about how the stonemason carved the date of his death as the
29th?
28th March 1963
The National Coal Board disclosed plans for
the closure of Mossfield colliery, one of the oldest in North
Staffordshire,
31st March 1910
 Federation
of the six towns on 31st March.
The county borough of Hanley, the municipal boroughs of Burslem, Longton
and Stoke together with the urban districts of Tunstall and Fenton now
formed a single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent.
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