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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.
[1] [2] However, as the number of court cases in the Stoke-on-Trent area grew, it became necessary to commission a more modern courthouse. The site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department , on the east side of Bethesda Street, had accommodated a series of rows of terraced housing (John Street, Vine Street and Mollart Street) before the ...
[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]
A Stoke-upon-Trent Borough Council was established in 1874 when the town was made a municipal borough. On the federation of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910, it merged with the five neighbouring towns of Burslem , Fenton , Hanley , Longton and Tunstall and became a county borough . [ 4 ]
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]
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.
Potteries Shopping Centre (formerly Intu Potteries) is an indoor shopping centre in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, in the Staffordshire Potteries. Stores and facilities [ edit ]
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 ...