North Staffordshire Heritage

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Researching the history and architectural heritage of North Staffordshire and the Potteries.

Yes, Lee Was Put in the Pillory

Lee in the Pillory Yes, Lee was put in the pillory as were many others. We won't embarrass them by posting their photographs.

http://northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2024/01/08/yes-lee-was-put-in-the-pillory/

Yes, Lee Was Put in the Pillory

Lee in the Pillory Yes, Lee was put in the pillory as were many others. We won’t embarrass them by posting their photographs.

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Betty Being Put in the Pillory

Betty Being Put in the Pillory when Tunstall Market Celebrated its 200th Anniversary in 2017 David managed to avoid being put in the pillory. He was taking the photographs but we think Lee spent a few hours in it.

http://northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2024/01/08/betty-being-put-in-the-pillory/

Betty Being Put in the Pillory

Betty Being Put in the Pillory when Tunstall Market Celebrated its 200th Anniversary in 2017 David managed to avoid being put in the pillory. He was taking the photographs but we think Lee spent a …

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The Old Swan Inn, Hanley

In his Romance of Staffordshire (Published in the 1870s), Henry Wedgwood describes the Swan Inn, a coaching inn where stagecoaches to London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool stopped to pick up…

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Memory Lane – 20th Century Longton

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Memory Lane – Tunstall in the 1960s

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A Family Historian’s Dream

“Thanks to an abundance of local clays and coal, from the mid-seventeenth century, six towns in Staffordshire emerged as the centre of the British pottery industry, and one of the foremost po…

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The Schneider Trophy and the Spitfire

This video, made in 2016, shows how creating the planes that won the Schnieder Trophy for Britain helped Reginald Mitchell design the Spitfire.

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Aethelflaed - Lady of the Mercians https://northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2024/01/06/aethelflaed-lady-of-the-mercians/ #Aethelflaed, #AlfredTheGreat, #TheLadyOfTheMercians, #Vikings

Here we take a look at the career of the determined ruler of Mercia, Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred the Great, who battled Vikings, built forts and founded towns.

Aethelflaed – Lady of the Mercians

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Stagecoaches and Coaching Inns

A Red Rover Stagecoach In the 1830s, two mainline stagecoach services, the Red Rover and the Royal Express, that ran between London and Liverpool, passed through Tunstall. The coaches stopped at th…

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Food Prices in the 1850s

In his book Old Times in the Potteries (published in 1906), William Scarratt writes about food prices in Tunstall during the 1850s. He tells his readers that: “The domestic economy in the 185…

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