Llandudno is a popular seaside resort on the North Wales Coast. In the 20th century, many Potters and their families went to Llandudno during Wakes Week for their annual summer holiday. If you went to Llandudno for your summer holiday, please use the Comments Section to tell us about your holiday.
Daydreaming is Stoke-on-Trent College’s 2025 end of year art exhibition at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. A vibrant mixture of students’ work will take you into a world of surrealism, imagination and different perspectives.
Short films created by students will be shown. A presentation, “The Plastic Ocean”, will raise your awareness of plastic pollution and highlight its impact on marine ecosystems.
The exhibition runs until Sunday, 31st August.
“I enjoy history on every level imaginable, and this experience has only enhanced my adoration. This work experience was everything I hoped it would be and more, it showed me the ins and outs of running a history centre whilst giving me hands-on experience with actual artifacts and interacting with customers.”
In 1895, the first known women’s association football team, the British Ladies Football Club, was formed in London. Nettie Honeyball was the team’s captain, and Lady Florence Dixie (a Scottish aristocrat, writer and feminist) was the club’s patron.
Our photograph shows a ladies’ football team in the 1950s.
There were two sets of stocks in Tunstall in the 1840s. One set was in front of the steps leading to the market hall on the ground floor of the Courthouse in Market Square (Tower Square). The other set of stocks was outside the Police Station in High Street.
As a Museum Assistant who once got sent outsideof her primary school classroom for making a full stop too big, I am well-versed with just and fair punishment. With this in mind, this blog will be exploring the past use of stocks in towns and villages near Buxton to deter misbehaviour and facilitate punishment.
Derbyshire is home to several village stocks,scattered throughout its picturesque villages. The stocks at Chapel-en-le-Frith, for instance, are said to date from the Cromwellian period and are located on the town’s historic Market Place. The stocks currently viewable to visitors and residents, however, date from the eighteenth century. As the stocks are made from woodthey are naturally subject to decay and rotting, thus have been replaced overtime.
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A bookseller, James Strapham, opened Hanley’s first library in 1790.
Called the Pottery Subscription Library, the library was a commercial venture which James ran from his bookshop. He charged customers two guineas to join the library and a guinea a year to borrow books.
In 1796, James sold the bookshop and the library to John Allbut, whose son Thomas acquired them at the beginning of the 19th century. Thomas ran the library until he retired on December 31st, 1852 when its books were transferred to the Mechanics Institution’s library in Gitana Street.
Shortly afterwards, the Mechanics Institution left Gitana Street and moved to new premises in Pall Mall.
Sandra, who grew up in Tunstall during the 1970s, remembers Pickle Onion Entry. The entry ran on the north side of a pottery factory in Scotia Road to Wardle Street, a cul-de-sac leading to The Boulevard.
Sandra can’t remember the factory’s name. She recalls that Barbers Palace backed onto the north side of the entry which was long and straight with high walls on either side. If you can remember the entry or know how it got its name, please get in touch and share your memories.
Our email address is northstaffordshireheritage@outlook.com
The name Pickle Onion Entry must be unique.
Like Sandra, we should like to know how the entry got its name and look forward to receiving your emails.
Note: Sandra contacted us a year ago. Although people can remember the entry no one has been able to tell us how it got its name. Can you solve the mystery?
Labour claims the government undervalues the importance of cultural education. It asserts that the government’s policies are reducing the number of people qualified to work in Britain’s expanding cultural industries.
Last year, Sheffield Hallam University suspended its degree course in English Literature.
The government believes the “arts and humanities” are low-level courses. They think these courses do not lead to employment. As a result, universities have reduced the number of students taking these subjects.
Since 2010, the number of students taking arts GCSEs has fallen by 40%. The music industry contributed £4bn to Britain’s economy in 2021. Nevertheless, the number of students taking music has fallen by 27%.
Commenting on the government’s policy, the shadow arts minister, Barbara Keeley, is reported as saying:
“The government’s squeeze on arts, culture and creative subjects is self-defeating. The arts clearly help young people and the creative economy. Despite this, arts subjects and experiences have been systematically excluded. They have been downgraded within the state-funded education system.”
She stated that the government was denying young people the opportunity to reach their full potential. It was not right that these subjects were reserved for children whose families afford fee-paying schools.
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