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Stoke City were relegated from the Premier League in 2018. [106] The club and the city's most famous player is the late Sir Stanley Matthews, who began and ended his playing career with Stoke City, sandwiching 14 years at Blackpool where he played in what became known as the Matthews Final. [107] He also managed Port Vale from 1965 to 1968. [107]
Nos. 1 & 2 The Villas Nos. 3 & 4 The Villas 18 The Villas 15 The Villas. The Villas, Stoke-on-Trent, is an estate of 24 Victorian houses in Stoke-upon-Trent, England.Originally a distinct settlement set in green fields, it now merges with the late 19th- and early 20th-century suburban sprawl along London Road below Penkhull village on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent and within the ward of ...
The ST postcode area, also known as the Stoke-on-Trent postcode area, [2] is a group of 21 postcode districts in England, within six post towns. These cover much of north and central Staffordshire (including Stoke-on-Trent , Stafford , Leek , Newcastle-under-Lyme , Stone and Uttoxeter ), plus very small parts of Cheshire and Derbyshire .
Originally, it consisted almost wholly of social housing, managed by Stoke City Council. The Right to Buy brought in by the Conservative government of the 1980s led to many of the semi-detached houses that make up most of the housing stock in the area being bought by their tenants, so that now approximately 25% of local houses are privately owned.
The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1874. In 1910 the six towns federated to become the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent and later the City of Stoke-on-Trent. Since federation in 1910 it has been the seat of the city's council, although the city centre is regarded as being in nearby Hanley.
[1] [9] The town hall became the headquarters of the new county borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910 and King George V and Queen Mary visited the town hall and announced the town's advancement to city status on 5 June 1925. [10] The rock band, the Beatles, performed at a concert in the King's Hall on 26 January 1963. [11]
“To me, and I’ve lived here since 1971, Raleigh’s mayor and City Council have lost their collective mind,” said one Hayes Barton resident.
Cobridge is an area of Stoke-on-Trent, in the City of Stoke-on-Trent district, in the county of Staffordshire, England.Cobridge was marked on the 1775 Yates map as 'Cow Bridge' [1] and was recorded in Ward records (1843) as Cobridge Gate.