1 388 STOKE-UPON -TRENT. STAFFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY 8 aow form one borough for all purposes of the " Munici d. 1688 ; and to the family of Fenton, 1782-97, and others: pal Corporations Act " and of the " Local Government in the churchyard are tombs inscribed to Sibil Clarke, d Act" of 1888, and for all other purposes. 1684, aged II2, and Henry Clarke, aged n2, and W Thoa. The name of the new borough, which was also con Machin, of Botteslow, d. 1747. The old parish church stituted a county borough for the purposes of the .Act was situated in the immediate vicinity of Rykenield street, of 1888, is Stoke-on-Trent, a.ud the charter for the at the confluence of two streams. The register dates fl'OIII incorporation of the inhabitants of the late county the year 165o. The living is n rectory, net yearly value borough of Hanley (granted 22nd May, 1857) was £8oo, including 3:a ecres of glebe, with residenee, in applied to take effect as if the inhabitants of the the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, and held since 1903 newly-constituted county borough of Stoke-on-Trent by the Rev. Prebendary Henry Venn Stuart :M.A, of were thereby incorporated, and as if the provisions of Caius College, Cambricl.ge, and rural dean of Stoke-on. the "Municipal Corporations Acts" wece thereby extended Trent. to the newly-oonstituted borough and to the inhabi The Mission chureh of St. Barnabas, built in 1897, and tants of such borough as incorporated by the name of added to in 1900, is a plain building of red brick con. "the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of sisting of chancel, nave and two altars; two of the Stoke-on-Trent. Every other charter creating a muni windows are stained : there are 6oo sittings. Rev. cipal borough or extending the provisions of the " Muni Benjamin Grimwood M.A. of St . .A.idan's and University -cipal Corporations .Acts " to a municipal borough, within College, Durham, has been curate in charge since 1910, the area of the present county borough, was annulled A parish room was erected in 1909. and ceased to have effect. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have established dia· The grantli of a separate Court of Quarter Sessions trict parishes in this extensive parish, at Hartshill, Eden· to be holden in and for the late borough of Hanley, on sor, Northwood, Penkhull, Trent Vale, Wellington,Etruria, the 16th November, 188o, and of a separate Commission Hope, Shelton, and Sandford Hill. Hartshill, Penkhull Uttoxeter and Tutbury; and the ing a row of shops fronting Church strePt, and on the Ohurnet Valley line, which extends from Uttoxeter to Leek south side is a tower with clock and Cambridge quarter and North Rode, is united to a branch from Stoke to chimes: the quadrangle is covered with a glaas roof, and Market Drayton v~ Newcastle-under-Lyme; a loop line, the market, as well as the shops, are the property of the with several minor branches, was opened in 1875 from Corporation. The market day IS on Saturday. Stoke to Kidsgrove. The Town Hall, enlarged I9IO-I2, at a cost of about The Steam Tramway, opened for traffic between Stoke £3o,ooo, C'omprises a large assembly hall to seat 3-250 and Longton in 1881, was laid down to Hanley in 1882, persons, known as the King's Hall; there are al80 a and in the same year it was extended to Burslem, smaller assembly hall to hold 1,400, a. council chamber, a distance altogether of si miles. In 1899 electricity police court and municipal offices. The county court was introduced, the overhead trolley system being offices, form~rly in this building, are now in separate adopted. The lines have been extended and connPc premises, in Lonsdale street. tions made between Longton and Normacot, Dre~den The School of Science and Art, in London road, was and Adderley Green, Hanley and Sneyd Green, Hanley erected in r856 as a memorial to the late Herberi and Newcastle, Silverdale and Chesterton, Hanley and Minton esq. FBnton, Burslem and Tunstall and Goldenhill, Bunllem The Free Library and Museum, in the London road, and Newcastle, Tunstall and Longport, Stoke and Trent was opened in r878, and comprises a library of 10,ooo Vale and Newcastle, the total length of the system being volumes, including the former .A.thenreum library, to· about 32 miles. Powers have been obtained for further get her with an extensive museum rich in geological speci extensiom. It is now worked by the Potteries Electric mens, and including also an important collection of ancient 'Traction Co. Limited. and modern pottery; the reading room is supplied with The town of Stoke, which is regarded as the centre of London and provincial papers and maQ'azines, and a the Potteries, contains some good modern houses and juvenile department was added in 1912: there is, various wharves and warehouses; it is lighted with gas besides, a loa.,l collect10n from the South Kensington and electricity from works belonging to the Corporation, Museum, changed annually, and c,omprising oil paintings, .and water is supplied by a company. photographs of works of art, European and OrientaJ The parish church of St. Peter ad Vincula, rPbuilt in pottery and other objects of mterest: the building is r826-29 on glebe land attached to the old churchyard, is open to the public from 9.30 a.m. to 10 p.m and an edifice of stone in the Early English stvle, from designs admission is free. by Messrs. Trubshaw and .Tohnson, of Haywood, and The North Stafford hotel, immediately facing the railway consists of chancel with vestries, rectangular nave with station, is a fine building f red l rick, with stone quasi aisles, and an embattled western tower of four dressings. stages, with crocketed pinnacles, and containing a fine The North Staffordshire Blind 'lnd Deaf School. at The peal of 8 bells : there are porches on either side of the Mount, was erected in 1897, and is the property of the tower, and the interior is surrounded on three sides by North Staffordshire Joint School Authority. composed of galleries : the east window and three others in the chancel representatives of the education committees of Stoke -are stained : the font, of fine Italian marble, was presented npon-Trent, Wolstanton, Unitrd Urban District and the by John Tomlinson esq.: in thA church are monuments Staffordshire County Council: it provides education, to J osiah Wedgwood F.R. S., F. S.A. d. 3rcl. Jan. 1795, with board and residence for 139 hlind and deaf children; hmt, hy Flaxman, and to Sarah, hi!! wife. d. r8r<; ; the there are at present (1912) 140 children. Verv Rev. John C. Woodhouse D.D. Dean of Lichfield, 17 Stoke is the centre of a district which produces speci· ye1rs rector and a grPat benefactor to the town and mens of the potters' art not excelled in any other part of church, d. 1833; John Tomlinson esq. patron, with b111t, the world, and which owes its renown not a little to the d. 183~; J osiah Spode esq. d. t827, and his son, Josiah, labours of Jnsiah Wedgwood and Turner and Spode; Mr. d. r8 jQ. with emblemati~ sculpture by William Behnes; Spode was the first English manufacturer who used bone John Ponlson, 22 years sacrist, d. I6gi, and Joan, his wife, in the preparation of the body of white china, but his
