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3 unusual facts about Burslem


Hugh Bourne

Bourne's conversion at the age of twenty seven led him to join the local Wesleyan society at Burslem, one of the historical six towns of the City of Stoke-on-Trent.

Industry and the Eglinton Castle estate

Selina Higgins was born in Glasgow, with parents from Burslem in England, and she lived in the Five Roads area, married to a Mr. John Bannerman, a miner who worked at Ladyha Colliery in the 1930s.

The Card

It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley (a fictitious town based on Burslem).


1990–91 Port Vale F.C. season

All of the money raised from Jepson's sale went on bringing Dutchman Robin van der Laan to Burslem from Wageningen.

1997–98 Port Vale F.C. season

Rudge's "Valiants" battled to a goalless draw with Arsène Wenger's "Gunners", to take the Londoners back to Burslem.

Burslem railway station

Burslem railway station was a station on the Potteries Loop Line that served the town of Burslem, Staffordshire.

Burslem School of Art

Reginald George Haggar, who was Minton's art director in the 1930s, was the Master-in-Charge of the Burslem School of Art from 1941 to 1945.

Ditchfield

Jimmy Ditchfield, 19th century football player for Burslem Port Vale F.C.

Enoch Hood

Hood was a lay preacher and member of the Burslem Brotherhood (a Christian social group).

Hugh Bourne

One notable achievement of this revival was the religious conversion of Burslem-born William Clowes (1780-1851), the other joint founder of Primitive Methodism.

A chapel was established at Harriseahead and, by 1804, the religious ‘revival’ Bourne began in his new village had spread to the northern Potteries towns of Burslem and Tunstall and into south Cheshire.

John Lockwood Kipling

He met his wife Alice MacDonald while working in Burslem, Staffordshire, where his designs can still be seen on the façade of the Wedgwood Institute.

Kennerley

Mitchell Kennerley (1878–1950), American publisher, born at Burslem, England

Magnificat Meal Movement

The Magnificat Meal Movement International (MMMI) was formed in 1986 as a “missionary” off-shoot of the ‘Celtic Corma Adoration’ group of Australia, which was founded in Melbourne in 1976 by J. Phelan, F. Eaton, D. Burslem and E. Burslem.

Norwich Over the Water

After this experiment launched further pilot schemes in Burslem, Windsor and Haddington.

Titanic Brewery

The brewery was founded in Burslem Stoke-on-Trent in 1985 and takes its name from the ill-fated steam liner Titanic.

Wedgwood Memorial College

There is also a similarly named building in Burslem, the Wedgwood Institute, which is sometimes called the "Wedgwood Memorial Institute".


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