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 | 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...
by Site Admin | Dec 6, 2013 | History & Memories |
David Bourne came across this recitation by Thomas Tomkinson while researching his family history and as kindly shared it with us. If you click on the poem you can view a larger image. This framed copy was kindly loaned to us by the Communtiy...
