by Site Admin | Jan 12, 2019 | History & Memories |
Documents relating to properties and mortgages in Camp Road and Heath Street (now Robert Heath Street) at the turn of the last century circa 1903 to 1907. Note that Scragg were a family of landowners/builders and Orion Street was originally Scragg Street. A lot of...
by Site Admin | Jan 12, 2019 | History & Memories |
A large document with maps of land for sale, equivalent to a modern estate agents leaflet or auction brochure. This helps me build a timeline of the houses in the village. St Mary’s Church was built in 1905 and these plots of land were that side of Camp Road...
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...
