John Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

John Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Streets of Stoke-on-Trent | John Street |

John Street, Vine Street, Mollart Street and Jasper Street all ran from Lichfield Street to Bethesda Street in Hanley.

Some pottery manufacturers provided houses for their workers, such as Wedgwoods' Etruria Village (take a 'walk' around Etruria Village) and Penkhull Square provided by Josiah Spode. However these houses were only a small proportion of those built in the first decades of the 1900's.

Much greater activity came from speculators and building clubs, particularly the latter, which were not only responsible for some of the most fully planned developments and a very large number of terraced dwellings, such as those in John Street below, but led the way in providing a superior quality and type of house.

From: "Potworks, the industrial architecture of the Staffordshire potteries"

Building-club houses in John Street, Hanley - built 1807

Picture taken from halfway down John Street, Bagnall Street on the extreme right. The picture looks toward Bethesda Street where the public library now stands.

Photo: "Potworks, the industrial architecture of the Staffordshire potteries"