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boo 3 Buffalo Bills visit to Stoke in 1891

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If anyone reading this can remember the film  Annie Get Your Gun,  then you are in for a treat as you read all about the visit of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show with three circus rings, hundreds of indians visiting Boothen to see this incredible show and a chance of a life time to see this increible part of live  witness.

The story explains how many purpose-built trains carried not only performers, including Annie,but all the horses and the props to the hamlet of Boothen. I great read of a grest piece of history never to be witnessed again. Including protographs

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Stoke public baths
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bat 2 Stoke Public Baths – its origins from a donation of £500 by Mr. Herbert Minton.

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This is the only account of the building of a new public swimming baths in the town of Stoke. It fully describes all the difficulties of first finding the right site, the additional funding and the huge several events that were imployed to finishing off the baths to add to the donation of £500 made by Mr. Herbert Minton the head of the factory in London Road Stoke.

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boo 1 Barnum and Bailey elephant strangled 1904.

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On its UK tour in 1904, Barnum and Baily circus visited Stoke-on-Trent and located the show at Boothen Meadows, just where the Michelin Type Co. was built.
The story taken directly from parts of the press reports of the day describes its opening parade from Stoke Railway Station to the site and in particular one large elephant becoming uncontrollable. So, it was decided that this elephant had to be destroyed for safety reasons. This article covers all aspects of this, and importantly what happened to the elephant following its death.

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