Date:1940 - 1950 (c.)
Description:This photograph shows Mr and Mrs Tommy at The Albion Hotel, Market Square, Hanley at the premiere of The Card by Arnold Bennett. Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 at number 90 (now 92) Hope Street, Hanley. Educated at Burslem and Newcastle-under-Lyme, he left home in 1889 and went to London, eventually becoming a full-time author and journalist. His literary output was prodigious and uneven in quality. It comprised not only of novels and short stories but also essays, reviews, plays and films. Achieving considerable critical and financial success, he became a national figure. Much of Bennett's best work is set in the 'Five Towns', a thinly disguised depiction of the Stoke-on-Trent area as it was in his youth. He died in 1931 and his ashes are buried in Burslem Cemetery.
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