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ent 14 The Newcastle & Potteries Theatre, 1788 to 1957

ByRichard Talbot

That’s entertainment is not a history of the building, it’s a complete package of several disciplines’ which will attract local inhabitants, students of theatre history and development, social history of the period and how this addressed itself in theatre attendance. Not only that, but Dr. Talbot also expands his work by using examples within the limits of theatre development at the time. For most shows they consisted of several short plays followed by community singing. Many stars of the day also appeared at the theatre in a wide range of acts from opera to recitations but also included a two nights performance of Paganini, the international violinist in 1833.
The study of the early theatres captures the moment by illustrating the type of acts which trod the boards in its early years, then, gradually, to the demands of society moved forward towards music and even promenade concerts and the involvement of local musicians and minstrels even attracting the Sutherlands from Trentham as Patrons. It is also a fine example how the class-society of Newcastle, a weathy professional town operated and how servants were treated.

This study illustrates the challenges of competition and how that was tied into the social fabric of the town, followed by improvements in transport from the mid-1900s. In fact, it is a complete social history combining theatre, localities, social habits, and class distinction which was an integral part of society for most of the theatres existence.

A5 size 76 pages and loads of photographs includes the price of UK postage

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George

man 28 1727-1760 George II

£5.00

ByRichard Talbot

The time of George 11, the court rolls become far more interesting and importantly in many cases recognizable to their location.
This record for the first time mentions Josiah Spode, the potter who was purchasing copyhold land in the centre of Stoke town with full descriptions of buildings and layout etc.
This applies to many other entries in this ten-page document and is a value for those who not only wish to trace the origins of the pottery industry, the development of the town of Stoke but also follow the lines in families.
This is certainly a worthy document which brings study right up the mid-8th century.

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man 31 1831-1837 William IV

£5.00

The period of these manorial courts 1831-37 covers a period of huge interest to the historian as not only containing wills, but death also etc. it moves on in 13 pages to describe properties that can be identified clearly where they once stood or still do. It also lists occupations, maltster, shop keeper, manufacturer etc. What’s interesting are the number of buildings included, The Grove, Elm Tree House, the old Parish Workhouse a public house. But not only are they identified but also what was there previously and the owner making the surrender to the courts. I have on a few made notes for the purchasers benefit in identification. This document will provide much evidence that can help to create a picture of the village of Penkhull at that time. Good for school projects or individuals with a keen interest on the history of Penkhull and early rural development.

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man 44 Manorial Courts – how they were administered.

£5.00

ByRichard Talbot

From the outset for those readers who are not familiar with the term Manorial Court, its functions, and responsibilities it is necessary to first refer to its function as not to confuse any reader with the functions of a Crown or Magistrates court. I know that even some local amateur historians have failed to grasp the basic difference and as ‘fools rush in’ they have gone into print only to prove just how little they know of the subject. The manor court was the lowest court of law in England, feudal law and governed those areas over which the lord of the manor had jurisdiction
These courts dealt with copyhold land transfers, managing the open fields, settling disputes between individuals and manorial offences. There was, in addition, a twice-yearly court leet, held after Michaelmas and after Easter, which all residents of the manor were obliged to attend. Business included a view of frankpledge, at which all men over the age of twelve were bound to appear and make their “pledge” to keep the king’s peace.
I hope that this fraction of what is found within the transactions is sufficient to stimulate interest and like myself have gained an invaluable knowledge of the area. A great subject to study.

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Longe

hea 3 Longe Report 1862 employment of children – Potteries.

£6.00

The Longe Report is in context with the earlier Scriven report of 1843 on the same subject but updated. It’s a comprehensive report covering all the large pottery manufacturers in the potteries for their employee comments on how children are treated within pottery manufactories.

Also, and importantly many children are interviewed on how they are treated by their masters, the education, hours of employment and their meals and importantly from what age and their living accommodation.

It’s an important work for any study on the potteries area.

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hea 8 Stoke and Wolstanton workhouse population 1851-1891.

£6.00

ByRichard Talbot

Stoke and Wolstantion workhouses population. A study of the trends within the inmate population of both Stoke and Wolstanton workhouses and their causes.

This essay is twenty-seven pages long and containing nearly twelve thousand words. It is one of my major studies on the poor law of Stoke-on-Trent with two workhouse one at Stoke south, the Spittals operated under the Stoke upon Trent Poor Law Union and the other in the north under the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union called Chell workhouse. The statistical information is extracted from the census enumerators returns and is an important ingredient into the study of Poor Law and for the purpose of an accurate analysis. The data extracted presents statistical information upon which conclusions are drawn on each workhouse illustrating areas of conformity and the differences found. Each entry was meticulously copied from census enumerators returns directly into spreadsheets where an analytical approach gives up their secrets to identify facts, figures, and trends. This contextualised data provides the means of assessing both the social history perspective and the influences of the Local Government Board and guardians of the poor placed into their care.

The period reflects that of six decades for the Stoke and Wolstanton Workhouses (1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901) providing a prospective between two locations situated six miles apart but serving one industrial conurbation. The findings will be evaluated for the relevant years (1871-1901). The 1851 census will be used as a benchmark for this data. Stafford and Newcastle-under-Lyme workhouse figures for 1881 will be used as a comparison. It is argued by Goose that despite the census returns are only factual once in every ten years that in fact variations during that period can be considerable producing a very different set of figures:

The Census returns provide us with information at one fixed point in time a perfectly valid historical perspective in its own right but one that masks the considerable coming and goings that the admissions register reveal, either through seasonal fluctuations or because of the activities of incorrigible individuals. As the census will capture higher proportions of long-term residents, it will undoubtedly tend to understate the proportions of individual working age, which feature in greater numbers in the admissions registers but who individually remained in the workhouse for much shorter periods.

This is a short evaluation of what it is all about, not only is it an insight to life in the workhouse system of the time but the basis for a student to formulate their own conclusions of what trends and qualities that each workhouse shared etc. Make a great project for a local history club.It is a perfect example for 6th form or university humanities studies. Also a great asistance to tutors.

This essay is ten pages long and a huge word count of over 12,000 words.

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Manor of Newcastle

man 36 Reeve’s Book 1676-1826

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This transcribed copy of the Reeve book from 1676-1826 is a great asset to the researcher. It gives in detail the years of the Reeve in office and lists of all the 18 original homesteads listed in 1086 with a full description of the plot and the current tennent. From this record a full account of the occupant each year. From this document a complete profile of Penkhull may be achieved with the information given.

Ten x A4 pages long

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pen 1 Penkhull Cottage Homes – A full and moving account of life.

£6.00

ByRichard Talbot

This contribution is a full account of the history of what was known as Penkhull Children’s Homes situated off Newcastle Lane in Penkhull dating from the early 19^th century. The first reference of a cottage home records the pressing need for home for children away from the workhouse community which was not conducive to a good upbringing for young children. It covers every aspect of home life, from accommodation, punishment, food, education, religious worship, birthdays, Christmas, V E Day celebrations, Muster Community Hall, brass bands and their importance, and lastly what happened to the children when they reached sixteen years of age. It’s a huge contribution to social history, never previously attempted in North Staffs being the children’s largest home in the area.

Thirty-two x A4 pages and pictures

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pop 4 Stoke and Chell Workhouse Populations a study.

£6.00

ByRichard Talbot

This study studies the details of both Stoke and Chell workhouses from 1871-1901. It is a major piece of research listing not only the percentages of ages, family status, gender, occupation and place of birth. Each subject is supported by percentages to enable an immediate indication of the severity in both workhouses and the year covered making comparatives between the two possible. Surnames are listed first, then second names and their relationship with the head or other status such as lodger are given.

The objective of this study is to ascertain the causes, implications and consequences of each set of figures which presents a wide view of what was happening within the whole of the potteries. For example, a large number of inmates in workhouses is a compelling sign that the economy and employment levels the potteries are at a high and order books low, hence unemployed with no income at all therefore the poor had to seek poor relief or starve. But if the numbers resident in workhouses were lower at various times, the indication is that employment within the district is doing well.

There are various permutations to each category, each of which the author offers his knowledge in explaining as to why. A further important study and is a perfect contribution to social, economic research as well as that of expanding the technique of making accurate findings for debate and also family research.

Eleven x A4 pages

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Longe report

pub 17 Longe Report – employment of children in the potteries 1862.

£6.00

This is an updated version of the Scriven Report of 1843 and the layout, and contents are the same, but different people have been interviewed with different results. This, like the Scriven report presents a unique, well documented comprehensive report of children working in the pottery industry. In many of the testimonials of young children it’s a moving testimony of life and to read just how children were treated by their masters, some even whipped with a clay cutting wire. The home life was a form of existence and the only opportunity to learn to read and write was at a church Sunday School frequently of the Methodist tradition but also the Anglican church without which there would be nothing. This report is a valuable contribution to the social and economic life in the potteries and would make an ideal study for students or local history groups to assimilate. This is a major source of original documented evidence.

ninty-seven pages

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Rawlinson Report Cover 1

pub 18 The Rawlinson Report – sanitation conditions of Stoke-upon Trent 1850.

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The Rawlinson Report – sanitation conditions of Stoke-upon Trent 1850. Little is known of this report therefore as a result the information contained within has remained almost hidden away and yet it is the most important eighty-five-page report into the sewage, drainage, supply of water and the sanitary conditions of the inhabitants of the Potteries.

Within this document there are summaries of mortality in five towns of the potteries from 1839 to 1848. It also includes population statistics as well as calculations between male and female. But the reports continue with how much is pain in out-relief per week to the poor and other reports.

Each of the five towns have a separate report on its health, graveyards, poor law expenditure by district, water supply, drainage, sewage, slaughterhouses, outside privies etc. by Mr. Rawlinson but with it he lists reports from many important residents including Doctors on the consequences to the health with killer diseases in the water and poor sanitation. My view is that this report is a snapshot of the pottery towns for the 1840’s and it does make an excellent read of actual life in the potteries in the 1840s.

This document is a perfect item to analyse, to debate and to draw conclusions from and certainly an extraordinary piece of work for 6^th form colleges, university students, as well as local history classes. This is probably the most informative documents every published as to the state of the potteries in 1850.

Eighty-five pages

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Scriven Report Cover

pub 19 Scriven Report – employment of children in the potteries 1843.

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The Scriven Report on the Employment of Children within the Potteries is a well-used report over many years for students of economic and social history as well as many local history classes and quoted frequently in books of the early years of the ceramic industry in the potteries when child labour was at its highest. Contains many statistics as well as report from children themselves as young as six on the hours of work, their pay and importantly how they were treated by their employer. In addition, it refers to the health of the children, home existence food and certainly the lack of any education except Sunday School at one of either the Methodist or Anglican churches, that’s if they had decent clothes to go in. A remarkable asset to any study of the potteries.

PDF 228 pages

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Enter

pub 22 That’s Entertainment –Newcastle and Pottery Theatre 1788-1957.

£6.00

ByRichard Talbot

Dr Richard Talbot, MBE, F.R.Hist.S., is one of Staffordshire’s leading historians having studied history from the age of eighteen, first gaining a Master of Philosophy degree at Keele University, followed by a PhD at Leicester. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, well-known broadcaster, documentary producer, lecturer, and regular contributor to the local media.

That’s entertainment is not a history of the building, it’s a complete package of several disciplines’ which will attract local inhabitants, students of theatre history and development, social history of the period and how this addressed itself in theatre attendance. Not only that, but Dr. Talbot also expands his work by using examples within the limits of theatre development at the time.

This study illustrates the challenges of competition and how that was tied into the social fabric of the town, followed by improvements in transport from the mid-1900s. In fact, it is a complete social history combining theatre, localities, social habits, and class distinction which was an integral part of society for most of the theatres existence.

The Newcastle and Pottery theatre was the first purpose-built theatre in North Staffordshire and its interior design based upon the Olympic Theatre in London, and a fine example of provincial theatre architecture of the period.

A5 format 76 pages inc photographs. Good presentation booklet Price £6 inc postage to clear remaining stock.

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saxon church

rel 1 A brief history of the Parish of Stoke upon Trent.

£6.00

ByRichard Talbot

The history of St. Peter’s Church, Stoke-upon-Trent dates from at least the sixth century as a Saxon Cross still stand high in the churchyard. In fact, it was the wealthiest parish in the UK in 1296 because of all the glebe land it owned. Not only was there a Saxon church but also a Norman Church, the arches of which were rebuilt in the late 19th century exactly on the spot of the original Norman Church.
By the late 17th century, the population of the pottery towns started to expand with workers coming in from the countryside. Slowly it became impossible for the church at Stoke to serve such a large parish. As a consequence, the church was divided into a number of separate Rectories with Glebe to support the Rector of the new parishes.
By the early 19th century, the old church in Stoke became totally inadequate to accommodate the demand, and the decision was taken to erect a new church on glebe land to the north of the existing churchyard. It was dedicated in 1834 with a capacity to seat over 2,000 worshippers.
This essay continues to expand on the churches origins near to the Trent and Fowlhey Brook and covers subject like the Rectory water Mills on the Trent, the list of rectors from the 12th century although the church was listed at the time of Domesday in 1086. A number of rectors were appointed by the Crown for services rendered, in fact, one never set foot in England but was in receipt of the church tithes. Interesting facts are also discussed from the church registers and the In Memory of tiles that surround the church interior walls which make fascinating reading.
Thirteen pages packed full of information and photos

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Church Warrilow 2

rel 3 Church or Chapel – how two denominations developed together in Penkhull.

£6.00

ByRichard Talbot

It was in 1832, when the first move was made to provide an Anglican Church in Penkhull, a village ion the top of a hill. The parish church of St Peter-ad-Vincula was situated around one mile away in the valley below. It was used weekdays as a school and Sundays for worship and situated in what is now the north side of the present churchyard. In 1842 the present church of St. Thomas was built to accommodate and expanding congregation.
Probably as a direct result and with the predominant number of working people in the village, the first Primitive Chapel was erected within a stone’s throw from the one in the churchyard although many were worshiping in houses by that time. The new chapel was opened in 1836 (still standing) but there were serious financial issues almost from day one to finance the building.
Following the establishment of the church in 1842, by 1844 the church established a National School just across the road. Then in the 1850’s because of the high number of children wishing to attend the Primitive church, an additional separate but attached Sunday School was built.
The story continues to include the parish registers and many different views between the two denominations which went on for years. This twenty-seven-page essay places both church/chapel within the national framework and far much more. This is an important essay for students of religious worship and community relationships of the time.
twenty-seven pages with photos

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Manor of Newcastle

man 42 Courts throughout Reginal years

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This extensive document containing twenty-seven pages was a huge project in extracting from the court rolls entries between the year 1414 and 1806.
The variety of court cases that appeared before the manorial courts – first at the castle at Newcastle and then at what is now the Greyhound Inn, Penkhull is fascinating and here just a few of the items covered as an example: Frankpledge Reports for each of the areas within the manor, names and details of the Open Fields within the former Manor of Penkhull, The Great Court entries, over-stocking the common, attempted murder, occupants of Shelton Mill, Village Stocks and the uses they were used for by law, The Commonwealth period and Maj. Gen Thomas Harrison and the rebel’s army and his home at Newcastle under Lyme, encroachment of cottages, the use of payne’s for fines for work not completed, Twyfords and the Greyhound in 1729.
This is not a complete list but illustrates just what is included and a perfect introduction for manorial studies for schools, colleges and universities.

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