Memories of the Staffordshire Potteries
Memories of the Staffordshire Potteries
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Summary
A nostalgic look back at the county's pottery industry with first-hand accounts, anecdotes and stories. Includes chapters on Bottle Ovens, Life in a Pottery town, Smoky Stoke and Potbank Humour.
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Memories of the Staffordshire Potteries by Mervyn Edwards
The bottle ovens of Stoke are a familiar sight and a reminder of an era when thousands of local people were employed in the pottery industry. There were over 2,500 coal-fired ovens and kilns in operation before 1936 and 'Smokey Stoke' earned its soubriquet from its billowing clouds of black smoke. Net curtains never stayed white for long and mothers, putting babies outside for 'fresh air' found prams and their contents covered in a thin layer of soot within minutes. Before the memories are lost forever author Mervyn Edwards has taken the time to talk to the local people who lived and worked in the Potteries. With firsthand accounts and a fascinating collection of contemporary photographs.
Edwards, Mervyn: - Mervyn Edwards is the author of many published books on North Staffordshire history and is a weekly columnist for the Sentinel's The Way We Were nostalgia magazine. He has appeared on BBC TV's The One Show and Twenty Four Hours in the Past, and is a familiar voice on Radio Stoke. He was a local history tutor for the Workers' Educational Association for eight years and helped to develop the education department at the now-defunct Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum, where he often acted in period drama for school groups. Mervyn runs an annual history programme in North Staffordshire. He is also MC of Burslem History Club and a member of the Potteries branch of the Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846741715 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846741718 |
| Title | Memories of the Staffordshire Potteries |
| Author | Mervyn Edwards |
| Series | Nostalgia |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Countryside Books |
| Year published | 2009-10-22 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |