
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...
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...