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North Staffordshire [2] Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church or Our Lady and St Peter's Chains Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. It was built in 1857 and designed by Charles Hansom. It is situated on Hartshill Road close to the junction with Shelton Old Road, south of Queensway, in the ...
Name and dedication. The dedication to St Peter ad Vincula means "Saint Peter in Chains". It is derived from the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. The church was formally renamed Stoke Minster in 2005 in recognition of its role in the civic life of Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire. The title "minster" is an honorific, sharing a ...
British Electric Traction incorporated a new company on 27 June 1898, called the Potteries Electric Traction Company. Its purpose was to extend the existing tramway through the towns of the Potteries. In payment of £152,410 to British Electric Traction the Potteries Electric Traction Company acquired four separate companies: [3] The contract ...
Since February 2010, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery has been the home of a number of artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard. 52,500 visitors viewed 118 items at the Potteries Museum during a 23-day exhibition in February 2010. [5] Since Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Stoke-on-Trent Museums have purchased the Hoard, items have been on ...
First Potteries now operates mainly urban services in and around Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and the surrounding towns and villages. Route numbers change & some buses have been repainted in the new livery as well as Wi-Fi being provided free of charge on newer buses.
The museum is located in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. It is also included in one of the regional routes of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. [2] Despite the name of the museum, it is a complex of buildings from two works, the Gladstone and the Roslyn. [3] The protected features include the kilns.
hide. Coordinates: 52°57′07″N2°12′07″W52.952°N 2.202°W. The service block of the hall in 2015. Trentham Estate in the village of Trentham, Staffordshire, England, [ 1 ] is a visitor attraction on the southern fringe of the city of Stoke-on-Trent.
Arms of the Lacy family, earliest known lords of the manor. Stoke on Turn was a substantial Domesday manor so well-established by at least the later 1000s. Roger de Lacy is recorded as holding it, and the presence of priest here in the 11th century suggest a church was already here and this was a principle manor for the Lacy's (and their successors the de Say and Vernon families).