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Stoke City were relegated from the Premier League in 2018. [107] 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. [108] He also managed Port Vale from 1965 to 1968. [108]
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]
Hanley is one of the six towns that, along with Burslem, Longton, Fenton, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent, amalgamated to form the City of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The town is the main business, commercial and cultural hub of the wider Potteries area.
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 .
Potteries Shopping Centre (formerly Intu Potteries) is an indoor shopping centre in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, in the Staffordshire Potteries. Stores and facilities [ edit ]
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.
On 1 April 1910, the town was federated into the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. Longton and Lane-End are two townships, or liberties, forming one flourishing market town now commonly called Longton, and situated at the southern extremity of the Potteries , five miles South East of Newcastle .