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7 unusual facts about Tunstall


Alfred Edgar Wigg

His father, Edgar Smith Wigg (7 June 1818 – 15 October 1899) of Tunstall, Suffolk came to South Australia in May 1810, and founded the successful E.

Edgar Smith Wigg

Originally from Tunstall, Suffolk, he commenced work as a bank clerk and developed a book club for the benefit of his fellow workers.

Eleanor de Mowbray

Joan Mowbray, who married firstly Sir Thomas Grey (1359 – 26 November or 3 December 1400) of Heaton near Norham, Northumberland, son of the chronicler Sir Thomas Grey, and secondly Sir Thomas Tunstall of Thurland in Tunstall, Lancashire.

Hugh Bourne

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.

Tunstall, Staffordshire

Jabez Vodrey is a noted emigrant potter, the first English potter west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Jabez Vodrey (1795–1861) was the first English potter west of the Appalachian Mountains.

The Golden Torch, on Hose Street, was a famous Northern Soul club, founded by Christopher Burton, a contemporary of Ivor Abadi (founder of the Twisted Wheel club), and Russ Winstanley of the famous Wigan Casino.


Andrew Wolff

Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, Wolff moved at a young age to Tunstall Green, Suffolk.

Bird collections

Early scientific bird collections included those belonging to Pallas and Naumann in Germany, Latham and Tunstall in England and Adanson in France.

Drastic Fantastic

Some additional tracks features other unreleased songs such as Mothgirl, Bad Day and Journey, and during the Drastic Fantastic Tour, Tunstall covered La Vie En Rose, which is on the U.K Bonus tracks, My Sharona, The Bangles' Walk Like An Egyptian and Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody which features on the DVD.

Feel It All

On 29 May, Tunstall made an appearance on Later... with Jools Holland and performed the song as a teaser of the new album.

The video was directed by Isaac Ravishankara, who previously worked with The Lumineers and Ellie Goulding, and it shows Tunstall on the edge of a cliff, balancing on a board facing the desert.

James Tunstall

Tunstall married, about 1750, Elizabeth, daughter of John Dodsworth of Thornton Watlass, Yorkshire, by his wife Henrietta, daughter of John Hutton of Marske, and sister of Matthew Hutton, successively archbishop of York and Canterbury.

Santa Fe Ring

He, Dolan and Riley hired the Jesse Evans Gang and the John Kinney Gang, both outlaw gangs of the time, to serve the purpose of goading Tunstall into a fight.

Tiny the Terrible

The film's director Rod Webber bailed Tunstall out of jail, and Tunstall was subsequently committed to a mental hospital.

Tunstall railway station

Tunstall railway station was located on the Potteries Loop Line and served the town of Tunstall, Staffordshire.

Tunstall Reservoir

Until 2004, the reservoir supplied a water treatment works located immediately below the dam wall, but, with the opening of a new treatment works adjacent to Burnhope Reservoir at Wearhead, the Tunstall works was abandoned.


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