The piece opened at the Theatre Royal in Hanley, England on 16 October 1899 and then toured extensively.
Alfred William Goldie (December 10, 1920, Coseley, Staffordshire – October 8, 2005, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) was an English Mathematician.
Whittington, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, the home of the John Downie crab apple, holds an annual apple day fair on the third Saturday in October, with tastings, juicing, games and apple produce.
In 1933 had a house built for himself on a hill at Ecton in Staffordshire, about 12 miles from the town of Leek.
They met at Hopton Heath and were attacked there by the Royalists, whose force consisted of about 1,100 cavalry, 100 foot and artillery, including a large artillery piece called "Roaring Meg".
Later he went to a more hilly area, possibly near Ilam, where he died.
During his time there, he attended Crown Point Elementary School and then Fletcher Middle School before attending Madeley High School in Madeley, England.
If his ceramic work from the 1860s onwards (for firms such as Mintons, Wedgwood, Royal Worcester, Watcombe, Linthorpe, Old Hall at Hanley and Ault) is considered, he must be amongst the most influential ceramic designers of any period.
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire.
Herod was born in Basford and joined Stoke City in 1940 from local non-league side Trent Vale United after impressing the watching Bob McGrory in the final of the Sentinel Shield.
The principal promoter was Lord Dudley, and the route ran from Dudley to Stourton on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire.
Enville, Staffordshire, England, a small rural village with a population of about 489
Frederick Arthur Challinor was born on 12 November 1866 at Longton, Staffordshire and died on 10 June 1952 at Paignton, Devon.
He founded the Longstaff Cycle Centre in Chesterton near Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1982 and soon established a reputation as a builder of high quality bikes.
When this project collapsed, he went to work for the dowager Lady Gerard at Sandon, Staffordshire as steward, auditor and secretary (1670–72).
The line had originally enabled passengers from the DerbyTamworth, Kingsbury, Whitacre, Shustoke and Coleshill areas to make connections at Hampton for other parts of the country, because at one time the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway had stations side by side at Hampton, at the point where the two lines met (called Derby Junction).
Haptopoda is an extinct arachnid order known exclusively from only eight specimens from the Upper Carboniferous of Coseley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington, London, to Charles James Dale, a pottery manufacturer from Staffordshire, and his wife, Frances Anne Hallett, daughter of a furniture manufacturer.
Hugh Bourne was born on 3 April 1772 at Ford Hayes Farm, Ford Hayes Lane, Bucknall, now within the present-day boundaries of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
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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.
The fight, watched by an audience of about 50, occurred at an old inn at Hanley, Staffordshire, in a large guest room, its windows closed and its floor covered in sawdust, with the ring cordoned off by a line.
Moores was born in Chesterton, Staffordshire and learned to play his football for the Staffordshire County Boys' Team.
Born on February 18, 1871 in Huntington, Staffordshire, England, James Simester was converted at age fourteen and called to preach when sixteen.
In June 1411, along with others including John Mynors (MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire), Hardhead was arrested for a murder in Featherstone, Staffordshire and armed assaults against many people in Wolverhampton.
Cook was born as Joseph Cooke to William and Margaret (née Fletcher) Cooke in Silverdale, a small mining town near Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Joshua Parlby (born 1855 in Longton, Staffordshire) was an English football manager who managed Manchester City in the 1890s.
Manley Hall, Staffordshire, a partly demolished country house near Lichfield
From Coventry the community moved to Bristol, where several schools were placed under their charge, from there they went to Longton, the last of the pottery towns in Staffordshire.
In 2007, Asha lived in the village of Chesterton with his wife and young son Anas, and worked as a junior neurosurgeon at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.
Philip Aston, 6th Lord Aston of Forfar, was probably born at his ancestral seat of Millwich in Staffordshire, England.
Oil paintings in public ownership in Staffordshire,The Public Catalogue Foundation, Sonia Roe, 2007, ISBN 9781904931348
On 17 August 1953 52 year old Air Vice-Marshal William Brook, the AOC of 3 Group, took off from the base in a Gloster Meteor, and crashed into a Dutch barn at Bradley, Staffordshire.
Fryer's grandfather, also Richard (b. 22 July 1698), was a descendant of the Fryers of Thornes, near Shenstone, where the family seat was an old hall surrounded by a moat.
He was the second son of Edward Greene (later Sir Edward Greene, 1st Baronet) of Nether Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and Anne Elizabeth née Royds of Haughton, Staffordshire.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the county boroughs of the Black Country and the Aldridge-Brownhills Urban District of Staffordshire became, along with Birmingham, Solihull, and Coventry and other districts, a new metropolitan county of West Midlands.
The brick is made from the local red clay, Etruria marl, which when fired at a high temperature in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere takes on a deep blue colour and attains a very hard, impervious surface with high crushing strength and low water absorption.
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Staffordshire blue brick is a strong type of construction brick, originally made in Staffordshire, England.
Staffordshire County Museum is housed in the Servants' Quarters of Shugborough Hall, Milford, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
However, the boom came after the discovery in 1720 by potter John Astbury of Shelton, that by adding heated and ground flint powder to the local reddish clay could create a more palatable white or cream ware.
The ground is in the hamlet of Stourton set amongst the Staffordshire countryside on the very outskirts of the town of Stourbridge.
The Old Recreation Ground was a football stadium, located in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent and home to Port Vale for almost 40 years.
Henry III of England requested the marriage of Theobald to Rohese de Verdon, daughter of Nicholas de Verdon of Alton, Staffordshire and Joan de Lacy, and the widow of William Perceval de Somery.
He also purchased the estate at nearby Ranton, Staffordshire, where he built Abbey House and developed the estate into a great sporting centre.
On 27 July 1578, with other dignitaries of the university, he visited the queen at Audley, and for a second time read a Latin oration in her presence.
In later years Horsfall owned and resided at Bellamour Hall, Colton, Staffordshire.
He was headhunted for a musical while appearing in Cinderella at Hanley, near Stoke-on-Trent.
The china clay train from Cliff Vale (Stoke-on-Trent) – St Blazey (Cornwall) is limited to 60 mph, so it is a class 6 train.
The Trentham Park Branch Line was a 1¼-mile railway line that ran through the Trentham area of Stoke-on-Trent.
Uttoxeter Road (also known as Four Trees) is a cricket ground located along the Uttoxeter Road between the villages of Lower Tean and Checkley in Staffordshire.
Nearby is Wedgwood Hall, and the station also serves the village of Trentham, near Stoke-on-Trent.
Manley Hall (also known as Thickbroom Hall) was an English Tudor-style country house which at one time stood in a 1200 acre estate on the western outskirts of the village.
Based at Shenstone, in Lichfield, Staffordshire, it is the UK operations arm of Dubai-based Freij Entertainment International.
Little is known of his background, although his name suggests a connection with Rudyard, Staffordshire.
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By the late 1960s the college was awarding degrees accredited by the University of Birmingham, and had successfully resisted a proposed merger with the larger and co-educational Madeley College, based near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, which would have entailed the closure of the Chester Road premises.
This first show premiered Wednesday, October 13 at 11:30 PM, ET/PT and showcased Margera, Dunn and skateboarder Tim O’Connor doing the “The Tough Guy Challenge” in the Perton, Staffordshire, near Wolverhampton, England.
The first Baron's father, Thomas Lister, grandfather, Thomas Lister, and uncle, Nathaniel Lister ( of Armitage Park, Staffordshire), also represented Clitheroe in the House of Commons.
BBC West Midlands, the BBC English Region covering the West Midlands metropolitan county, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and parts of Northern Gloucestershire
He was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham, the eldest son of Rann Kennedy (1772–1851), of a branch of the Ayrshire family which had settled in Staffordshire.
One of his Staffordshire team-mates was the great bowler Sydney Barnes, whose last match for Staffordshire was in 1935.
He was the second son of Andrew Giffard of Chillington, in the parish of Brewood, Staffordshire, by Catherine, daughter of Sir Walter Leveson, was born at Wolverhampton in 1642.
Burslem railway station was a station on the Potteries Loop Line that served the town of Burslem, Staffordshire.
Until the end of deep Coal Mining in Staffordshire during the 1990s, Cheadle was still very much a mining town with a lot of men working at Florence and Hem Heath Collieries and, regular Buses were laid on by British Coal to transport the Cheadle Miners to work in the Potteries Coalfield.
Each year the Adventure Farm helps 3,000 children aged 4 to 16, coming from all over the North West, with people coming from Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, North Wales and Derbyshire.
He was born at Castle Bromwich, West Midlands (then Warwickshire), England on 10 September 1856, the only son of Edwin Cresswell Perry who became vicar of Seighford, Staffordshire, in 1861 and where Perry spent his early years.
The name Dilhorn is believed to be a reference to Loton's home town of Dilhorne, Staffordshire.
The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.
A ward manager role in orthopaedic and trauma nursing at North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary was followed by a move to the Accident and Emergency Department to become part of the developing M6 motorway accident team.
He was a DL and JP for Staffordshire and Lord High Steward of the Borough of Stafford.
The son of a miller and confectioner from Willenhall in Staffordshire, Frederick Rushbrooke initially established himself in business as a wholesale ironmonger in Birmingham.
Great Wyrley F.C. was a football club based in Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, England.
One of his daughters, Clara, won the Staffordshire ballroom dancing championship in 1937 with her partner, Basset Riseley, whose father was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent.
By the mid-nineteenth century the extended Philips family held properties and businesses throughout Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the family seat in Heybridge, Staffordshire, which Herbert inherited from his father Robert Needham Philips, M.P. for Bury.
Hilton Hall is an 18th-century mansion house now in use as an Office and Business Centre at Hilton, near Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire.
Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities in water polo while a student at Lancaster University, where he earned a BSc in Biological Science.
Sir John Bowyer, 2nd Baronet (1653–1691), English MP for Warwick and Staffordshire 1679–1685
Born at Bilton, Warwickshire (at that time in Staffordshire), he emigrated at an early age with his parents to South Australia.
The Midland District was the chief centre of these opinions, and fifteen of the clergy of Staffordshire formed themselves into an association of which Joseph Berington was the leader, the primary object being to stand by their bishop, Thomas Talbot, who was partly on that side.
Joseph Crowther Smith was born on 26 September 1818 in Rushall, Staffordshire, the son of wealthy miller, Joseph Smith of Rushall Mills, and Ann née Crowther, of Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire.
Williamson was married to Dr. Robert Gordon Williamson (1931-2012, Oxley, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England), an anthropologist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan.
The museum is located on the south side of the market square on the second floor of St Mary's Church in the centre of Lichfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.
She was educated in the Benedictine convent at Caverswall, in Staffordshire, and, when she was nineteen, her father founded the convent of Our Lady of Mercy at Handsworth, near Birmingham.
The Minnie Pit disaster was a coal mining accident in Halmer End, Staffordshire, UK in which 155 men died.
Needwood Forest, large area of ancient woodland in Staffordshire, England which was largely lost at the end of the 18th century
Old Hill was historically in the urban district and later county borough of Rowley Regis, and in the county of Staffordshire.
On 25 December 1357, she married Sir John de Sutton III (1339 – c. 1370 or 1376), Knight, Master of Dudley Castle, Staffordshire.
Beyond this literary work, he caused two schools for boys to be opened, one at Standon Lordship, later represented by St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, and the other at Sedgley Park, in Staffordshire.
Clifton was the son of Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet and his second wife Marianne Swinfen, daughter of John Swinfen of Swinfen, Staffordshire.
He was made a baronet on 7 December 1868, of Newfield and of Stallington in the county of Staffordshire, and of Dunlosset, Islay, the county of Argyll.
He was wounded at Vermelles on 13 October 1915 during the attacks made by the Territorial Battalions of the North and South Staffordshire Regt.
The name of Stackton Tressel is based upon the village of Acton Trussell in Staffordshire, birthplace of Patrick Fyffe.
The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society Garden is a feature within the National Memorial Arboretum, the UK national site of remembrance at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire.
He was born in Stafford gaol, one of the younger sons of William Macclesfield of Chesterton and Maer and Aston, Staffordshire; William Macclesfield was a Catholic recusant, condemned to death in 1587 for harbouring priests, one of whom was his brother Humphrey.
The track by the side of the lake used in many of the programmes is at Sir Anthony Bamford's estate at Wootton Lodge in Staffordshire
Yarlet School, a preparatory school in Staffordshire, United Kingdom