History & Memories
Celebrating 100 years of the Salvation Army in Smallthorne (1923 – 2023)
Paul Dale has provided a fantastic document which celebrates 100 year of the Salvation Army in Smallthorne. Click the link to view the pdf document or right click and save as 100-Years-SA-in-Smallthorne.pdf
The Mountford Family by John Sheldon
The Mountford Family Living in and around Smallthorne As a child I remember being in Smallthorne with my father in the early 1950’s and him saying that half of the population of Smallthorne was named Mountford. We must have been visiting relatives as my father’s...
Coronation Procession at Smallthorne 1911
Never seen this image before, I date it to 1911 as there was a coronation that year and John Tellwright was trading at 11 Leek Road, corner for Fell Street looking down toward the Forresters and beyond. A Coronation Procession
Smallthorne from the air
A big thank you to photographer Pete Stonier for allowing us to share these superb aerial photographs taken from the 'Grenade Nutrition' hot air balloon which feature Smallthorne and the surrounding areas taken on 11 October 2020 [gallery columns="4" link="file"...
Bradeley Methodist Church Centenary 1884-1984
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Kevin Millward
This year (2019) I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Millward. Kevin contacted me as he had some Smallthorne related documents and photos from his family history. A post about Joseph Millward on the Smallthorne History Facebook group proved popular and generated quite...
History of St Mary’s Church by Mick Moran
This fine document has been collated by Mick Moran, which he has kindly agreed to share on the Smallthorne History Site. Click the link to view/download the pdf file - History of St Marys
Property and Mortgage Documents Circa 1903 to 1907
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...
Auction Brochure from 1909
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 between...
You can take the Boy out of Smallthorne, but you can’t take…… by Andrew Bramhall
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...
The Way We Were – Delving into the life of Thomas Tomkinson
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 Macclesfield in...
My Memories of Smallthorne by Lesley Clubman Seville (nee Knox)
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...