Stoke Through Time

Stoke-upon-Trent, described as a village in 1795, grew rapidly from the 1820s and 1830s, by which time a new Anglican church had been built as well as new streets. Noted in a trade directory of 1829 as having ''many handsome houses, wharves, warehouses and earthenware manufactories'', it became famous for pottery manufactured by the likes of Spode, Copeland, Minton and Goss. However, Stoke is not ...