Tunstall Through TimeTunstall, it would seem, has always been a town of modernity and progress, from its developing industry of the late eighteenth century to the thriving market and impressive amenities that emerged in the nineteenth century. Indeed, in a little over a century, Tunstall went from being 'the pleasantest village in the pottery', to 'a town almost wholly of modern erection'. Here, Mervyn Edwards explores Tunstall's 'robust youth' and 'plucky' spirit as it continued to strive for forward-thinking and modernity through the twentieth century. This stunning collection of old photographs, many of which have never previously been published, and modern colour photography evokes happy memories of the past and brings Tunstall's fascinating history to life once more. |
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A. R. Wood back row Barber boiler house Bond Street Brenda Bailey Brownhills High School building Burslem Chatterley Whitfield Chell choir Christ Church Club coal compressor house congregation County Durham Date Unknown demolished Drummond Street early twentieth century Elaine Evans extreme left extreme right former front row girls Goldenhill Infants Hesketh shaft High Lane High School Pupils Jim Dutton Jim Hutchinson John Jubilee King Street Wesleyan ladies later Lily Everill Longport Madison Street Market Methodist Church Naylor Normacot opened Peter Sandham picture Pittshill Place Methodist Chapel Platt Gallery Platt Shaft pottery powerhouse Primitive Methodist Revd Robert Heath Sentinel shire horse Sneyd Arms St Mary’s Stoke Stoke-on-Trent Street Wesleyan Methodist Summerbank Superdrug Sutton Syd Bailey Tom Dutton tower town hall Tunstall Park Tunstall’s Turnhurst underground Victoria Street Vine Wesley Place Methodist Wesley Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Westport Lake Whitfield Colliery William Adams Winding House Winstanley Wolstanton Woolworths