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Staffordshire city, E of Newcatle-under-Lyme.
The name is now used to describe the six towns in Staffordshire that came together in 1910 for administrative purposes. The area had already been dubbed "The Potteries" and comprised of Stoke-upon-Trent (note the "upon"), Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Fenton, and Longton. It has been the centre for clay and pottery working from Roman times, and before. The settlement of Stoke-upon-Trent had been merely a village until the Industrial Revolution.
The novelist Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote about the Staffordshire Potteries in his novel The Frobishers.
The Potteries most famous literary son is Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) who was born in Hanley and lived at various places in and around Burslem. Many of his novels feature the area, often with thinly disguised place names.
The poet, translator and editor Charles Tomlinson (1927- ) was born in Stoke-on-Trent. In his poem At Stoke, from The way in (1974), he describes the town as being "Too desolate, diminished and too tame to be the foundation for anything".
The novelist, poet and literary critic John Wain (1925-1994) was born in Stoke-on-Trent and attended Newcastle-under-Lyme Grammar School
Location map of Stoke-on-Trent courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
Page created 1 October 2002 and last updated 3 November 2006
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