The Potteries Through Time

The Staffordshire Potteries, known for their ceramic manufacturing heritage, originally centered upon six towns. This latest volume explores the hills and hollows between the centers, offering new archive photographs of the main towns. The collection of archive photographs charts changing times and the shifting identity of the Potteries, and will be of immense interest to local residents, visitors, and all those with links to the area.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2022
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

The Staffordshire Potteries, renowned for their illustrious ceramic manufacturing heritage, originally centered upon six towns: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton, and Longton. The modern city of Stoke-on-Trent was created from these six towns and around fifty villages. In his book "The Potteries Through Time," author Mervyn Edwards presents a nostalgic visual chronicle of the towns and villages in the Potteries across the decades. In his previous "Through Time" books, Mervyn Edwards focused upon each of the six towns individually. This latest volume explores the hills and hollows between the centers while also offering new archive photographs of the main towns. We find shabby backstreets cowering in the shadow of enormous coal tips, the Potteries' own "black hills," and there are industrial hotspots and busy suburbs. Then there are the proud old chapels and pubs and the even prouder people that patronized them. Stoke-on-Trent was not a pretty place, as the proverb tells us, "where there is muck, there is brass," and the fascinating landscape came to be captured by all manner of writers, artists, and photographers. This collection of archive photographs is an engaging book that charts changing times and the shifting identity of the Potteries. It will be of immense interest to local residents, visitors, and all those with links to the area.

Weight: 280g
Dimension: 233 x 165 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398100480