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Lord mayors of Stoke-on-Trent (7 P) Pages in category "Mayors of Stoke-on-Trent" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Between 1910 and 1928 the Borough, and later, City of Stoke-on-Trent had a mayor rather than a lord mayor. The first Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent was Cecil Wedgwood of the Wedgwood pottery dynasty. [1] The title of Lord Mayor was first conferred on the City of Stoke-on-Trent by King George V on 10 July 1928.
Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England. It has an estimated population of 259,965 (as of 2022), [ 6 ] [ 7 ] making it the largest settlement in Staffordshire and one of the largest cities of the Midlands .
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.
Douglas Coghill (1855–1928), MP for Stoke-upon-Trent. Thomas Edwards (1838-1910) Trade Union Leader, last Lord Mayor of Burslem. William Taylor Copeland (1797–1868), Lord Mayor of London and Conservative MP. Mark Fisher (born 1944), Labour MP. John Forrester (1924–2007), Labour MP. Harold Hewitt (1899–1968), trade union leader.
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Location in the north of Stoke-on-Trent Excel Academy has a catchment from the neighbourhoods of Norton-le-Moors, Sneyd Green, Milton, Baddeley Green and Ball Green. Established in 1963 to accommodate 450 pupils the school has enlarged and established over the years and now accommodates over 1200 pupils aged 11–16.