Vanished Landscape

Paul Johnson recalls, with warmth and affection, his childhood in the Potteries - and a unique industrial landscape that has now gone for ever

Paul Johnson, the celebrated historian, grew up in Tunstall, one of the six towns around Stoke-on-Trent that made up `the Potteries''. From an early age he was fascinated by the strange beauty of its volcanic landscape of fiery furnaces belching out heat and...