Fifty Guineas Reward - notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This is how news of an assassination spread across Staffordshire on 29 June 1800 - together with the offer of a generous £20 reward for information.
Notices like this one would have appeared in public ...
Stoke-on-Trent Police Station
The photograph shows the front of Stoke on Trent Police Station on Hartshill Road. The building has changed use to become site of the Coroner's Court and Chambers. This was a substation of the city force ...
The Life, Trial, Character & Behaviour of Thomas Oliver - A local tragedy from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This is the tragic life story of 28-year old former apprentice surgeon Thomas Oliver, once of Stourbridge and Rugby, then of Burslem.
"A diligent, regular and humane young man..."
The people of ...