by Site Admin | Jul 12, 2018 | History & Memories |
Smallthorne, along with Sneyd Green, are two of Stoke-on-Trent’s oldest villages, and as befits such a status, the inhabitants of places of such long-standing demonstrate certain characteristics, such as loyalty, longevity and permanence, qualities which are not...
by Site Admin | Oct 22, 2017 | History & Memories |
The relaunch of a book by a 19th-century poet has fired up his descendants to discover more about their ancestor, writes Colette Warbrook “The family of the ‘original Smallthorne poet’, Thomas Tomkinson, know little of the 19th-century writer. Born in...
by Site Admin | Sep 9, 2017 | History & Memories |
My Memories of Smallthorne by Lesley Clubman Seville (nee Knox) We moved to Nellan Crescent in 1965. I think of it has being the first real home as a family as before we moved into the house we had lived in a flat in Bentilee and with my grandparents in Fenton, where...
by Site Admin | Aug 9, 2017 | History & Memories |
Further to “Village Changes – A Tribute to Thomas Tomkinson” by Barry Ashley, being, published, direct descendents of Thomas have decided to find out more about the man and his family. The Book, Village Changes, reprinted the poems found in the original book, simply...
by Site Admin | Aug 9, 2017 | History & Memories |
Gertrude Mary Astbury was born on 28th December 1887 at 7 Shirley Street, Longport. Her mother Lavinia was a school teacher. William, her father worked in a pot-bank. She began her stage career at the age of four with a Potteries-based entertainment act called...
by Site Admin | Aug 9, 2017 | History & Memories |
You can take the man out of Smallthorne but you can’t take Smallthorne out of the man. or From Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent to Smallthorne Tasmania Further to Publishing “Village Changes – A Tribute to Thomas Tomkinson” some of Thomas’s descendents have been...
