North Staffordshire Heritage

Our Annual Holiday northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2025/06/06/o... Staffordshire Heritage’s annual holiday starts today. The office will be closed until Monday, July 14, when we will resume posting.

North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape Merits World Heritage Site Status The Trent & Mersey Canal ‘kick-started’ the Industrial Revolution, making Britain the workshop of the world. The Harecastle Tunnels on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Kidsgrove Ther…

North Staffordshire's Industrial Landscape Merits World Heritage Site Status northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2024/10/15/w...
The canal and railway tunnels between Kidsgrove and Chatterley are significant feats of civil engineering. They merit World Heritage Site status in their own right.

A Date for Your Diary

Law Enforcement in Hanley northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2023/10/31/l... Pickpockets mingled with the crowds and robbers lurked in dark alleys waiting to pounce on their victims. Robbery and theft had to be tried in Stafford before the Assize Court or at Quarter Sessions.

AT LAST we can share this fantastic news with you! 🥳
Our next show is THE GRAND BABYLON HOTEL by Arnold Bennett - in association with the New Vic Theatre!

Adapted by Deborah McAndrew and directed by Conrad Nelson. If you enjoyed THE CARD, you'll love this!
www.newvictheatre.org.uk/productions/...

Can You Help Trace These Film Strips northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2024/12/23/c...
We hope to show a series of film strips during Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary Year. Local Schools made these film strips in 1960 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent’s creation.

Tunstall Market in the 1850s northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2025/01/12/t... In his book, Old Times in the Potteries, published in 1906, William Scarratt describes the scene in Tunstall’s Market Square. These scenes occur on Saturday nights during the 1850s.

Memories of Victorian Tunstall In 1935, Arthur Cotton shared his memories of late Victorian Tunstall with a Sentinel reporter. Arthur, who was born at Goldenhill in 1857, became an estate agent with an office in Market Square (T…

Memories of Victorian Tunstall northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2025/06/02/m...
"During the past 70 years or so, the district has changed beyond all recognition. The Tunstall of my boyhood days was an industrial town of small pottery factories. Many of them have long since disappeared..."

Stoke-on-Trent's Proud Heritage northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2024/10/22/s...
Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a proud heritage. Its history is a testament to people from the Potteries who have played significant roles on the world stage. The city council was one of the...

City of Fire and Beautiful Bricks’
Exhibition at The Glosthouse, Longton. Stoke-On-Trent.
www.theglosthouse.co.uk

An ongoing exhibition of Works both new, and never before exhibited. Painting : Drawing : Collage.
Poetry : @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social
#Stoke100 #SoT100

The Potteries at the end of the 18th Century northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2025/05/26/t...
Published in 1795, Dr John Akin compiled A Description of the Country From Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester. The book introduced its readers to Newcastle-under-Lyme and North Staffordshire’s...

Two of our upcoming workshops are now FULLY BOOKED - thank you for the amazing response!

But there’s still time to explore more of Arthur Berry’s world on Saturday 19 July, with two fantastic sessions:
✍️ Poetry
🎵 Music

Spaces are free:
👉 www.claybodytheatre.com/productions/community-events/