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 |
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...
