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Green square
on the 1898 map
shows this location where the canal goes under Church Street (Campbell
Place) - there is still a rise in the road hear which points to the
tunnel hidden below.
Campbell
Place, Stoke (postmarked 1905)
This picture is taken
from London Road.
The Campbell Monument
(Statue of Colin Minton Campbell) can be seen in the background
and so can the full facade of the Wheatsheaf Hotel. In the right
hand foreground can be seen the wall below which the Newcastle canal
passed under Campbell Place on it's way to the nearby Trent and
Mersey canal.
The canal tunnel was drained shortly before the 1939 war and was used
as an Air Raid Shelter.
Colin Minton
Campbell Statue
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On
the three sides of the base are the following inscriptions:
'Colin
Minton Campbell, born August 27th 1827, died February 8th
1885'.
'A
successful manufacturer, a leading townsman and generous
friend'.
'High
Sheriff 1869, Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire
1874 to 1887, Thrice Lord Mayor of Stoke 1880-1883.' |
The statue was unveiled
by the Duchess of Sutherland at a public ceremony in January 1887. The
statue was originally in Campbell Place (as shown on this postcard)
but it was moved in 1954 to a site outside the nearby Minton factory
>> In 2002
the statue was moved to the new Royal Doulton headquarters site in
Forge Lane, Etruria.
The Minton works in Stoke were sold & demolished late 2002 to make
way for a supermarket - in March 2003 the statue of Colin Minton
Campbell was erected outside the main entrance of the Sainsbury's
supermarket.
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