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The school was officially opened on 18 April by the chairman of the Hanley School Board, [1] Mr T W Harrison. The school building, known as Central Hall [2] in the middle of Hanley, was designed by the architect Mr Scrivener, at a cost of £17,500 for the building and equipment, and with considerable misgivings by local ratepayers at increase in rates to pay for the school [3] The school ...
In 1910, along with Burslem, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent it was federated into the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. Hanley was the only one of the six towns to be a county borough before the merger; its status was transferred to the enlarged borough. In 1925, following the granting of city status, it became one of the six ...
Birches Head Academy (formerly Birches Head High School) is an 11–16 mixed, secondary school with academy status in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is part of the Frank Field Education Trust. [3]
Stoke-on-Trent is a city located in Staffordshire, England. The city is a linear conurbation of six constituent towns (Burslem, Fenton, Longton, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent and Hanley, with the latter being regarded as the city centre). Stoke-on-Trent is considered to be the home of the pottery industry in England and is commonly known as the ...
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.
It is owned by Reach plc and based at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. [2] It is the only newspaper delivering daily news and features on professional football clubs Stoke City, Port Vale and Crewe Alexandra. The Sentinel also operates a website with sections on news, sport and entertainment, as well as a comprehensive directory of local businesses.
Stoke-upon-Trent market: part of the surviving frontage to Church Street. Stoke has held markets in various locations in the town since 1818. A market was set up within the newly built town hall in the 1830s, but this did not prove popular with the market traders of the time and in 1845 the market moved to Hide Street (the building can still be ...
The museum opened on its current site in 1956 as the Stoke-on-Trent City Museum & Art Gallery. [1] [2] The building was designed by the city architect; J. R. Piggott.[1]The museum's Spitfire, was received from the Royal Air Force in 1972. [3]