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Stoke-on-Trent was a world centre for fine ceramics—a skilled design trade has existed in the area since at least the 12th century. In the late 1980s and 1990s Stoke-on-Trent was hit hard by the general decline in the British manufacturing sector.
The company was founded in 1926 by John James Wright making pies from the front room of his terraced house in Stoke-on-Trent. The company now operates three manufacturing sites situated in Crewe and remained family owned until December 2021 when it was sold for an undisclosed amount to The Compleat Food Group.
Stoke was located where the upper reaches of the Trent meets the Fowlea Brook. The later Roman road through Stoke remained the basis for local road transport long after the Roman occupation. The Anglian name given to this ancient place of meeting and worship was the 'stoc' (meeting place) on the Trent.
The Church of England parish church of Basford is St. Mark's Church on Basford Park Road in the deanery of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. [4] There is also a Seventh-day Adventist church on Victoria Street which was registered for worship in 1948. [5] Basford had a Wesleyan Methodist chapel opposite St. Mark's Church on Basford Park Road ...
The works were opened in Shelton's Lower Bedford Street, under the ownership of the British Gaslight Company, to supply Hanley and Stoke in 1825. The British Pottery Manufacturer's Federation Club, a large private member's club in Federation House opposite Stoke-on-Trent railway station , was established in 1951, and still operates.
Cresswell is a hamlet in Staffordshire, England.It is approximately one mile SE of Blythe Bridge and has a population of approximately 300. From the 2011 census the population of this hamlet has been included with Draycott-in-the-Moors.
Kingsley is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands near to Cheadle, and situated on the A52 from Stoke on Trent to Ashbourne. The civil parish population taken at the 2011 census was 2,204. [1] Nowadays Kingsley is a quiet rural village, but until the early 20th century it was the centre of the Churnet Valley iron mining industry.
Milton is an area of Stoke-on-Trent, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is mainly situated between the A5009 and A53 roads. It shares its borders with Light Oaks, Baddeley Green, Sneyd Green and Abbey Hulton. Milton is part of the Baddeley Green, Milton and Norton ward of Stoke-on-Trent City Council. [2]