Barratt Gardens, Abbey Hulton
Barratt Gardens is on the northern edge of Carmountside Crematorium and Cemetery. It's a crescent of old people's homes and a community centre which dates from the mid-1950's. The bungalows owe their ...
Making food parcels for miners' families, Florence Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent 1984
The miner's strike of 1984/1985 saw many miner's families experience hardship as no money was coming in either through wages or benefits. Womens action groups set up food centres which packaged donated ...
Sutton Dwellings Trust Estate Office, Sutton Drive, Stoke-on-Trent
The Sutton Trust estate Office managed the housing estate built by the Sutton Dwellings Trust on the Stoke Lodge estate in the mid 1920s. The office was at the northern end of Sutton Drive, just beyond ...
Women's Society, Burslem - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
'On the basis of charitable principles,' 28 Burslem women announce their plan to bring relief to the town's poor.
They include the wife of pottery manufacturer Enoch Wood and local printer J. Tregortha. ...