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exe 3 The Execution of Dr William Palmer.

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ByRichard Talbot

The final essay records in graphic details the activities of Dr. Palmer known later as the Rugeley murderer, a prolific murderer whose case has been well documented in the press, in books and TV series and the last recorded in a run of thee in this series of executions at Stafford is that of Dr William Palmer of Rugeley, one of the most prolific mass murderers of his time attracting national notoriety
Palmer first started to work as a dentist but changed to that of a Doctor. The major issue was that he was a prolific gambler and would do anything to clear his debts. and forged his mother’s signature to pay off creditors and took out an insurance policy on his wife, his brother Walter and a friend George Bate.
Throughout his trial, even up to his time at the gallows with the prison Chaplin he would not admit to murder. A great story and certainly one worth reading.

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far 1 Lease for Penkhull Farm – to Josiah Spode.

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For many decades Penkhull Farm situated in the centre of Penkhull Village was in the ownership of Mr. Harvey Boulton but in 1831 passed onto Josiah Spode III, his father Josiah II died suddenly in July 1827 four years prior to the lease of the farm.

This document is of significant importance as for an historian it gives several packages of relevant information. Firstly, there is a full description of the property especially referring to the demolition of several parts of the old farm and the building of other parts.

Secondly, and importantly it describes all the land attached to the farm by measurement, name and location and thirdly it provides a list of the fitments, fittings and furniture in the property and finally it lists both the agricultural equipment and in terms of quantity the animals that Harvey Boulton held at the time of the lease. Its a facinating document for the study of social and economic history.

This document therefore contributes well for an historical perspective and to the student a most valuable source of information of farming life at the time. Ideal for those interested in early 19^th century farming, land occupation and its use and social and economic history.

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far 2 Penkhull Farm – Its life from the time of Domesday.

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ByRichard Talbot

Penkhull Farm was the largest of five farms that covered the area of Penkhull. This farm which has formed the basis of a major study of its life from the time of Domesday 1086 all of which is included in a ninety-minute video of its history from Domesday to the 1960s, but also and importantly of the last farmer in Penkhull, Doug Jarvis and his wife Betty. It is probably one of the largest essays available on this site amounting to twelve pages of well researched documents and interviews with photos on this site.

The farm situated in Garden Street, formally Farm Lane and previous to that Tittensor’s Lane and was listed as one of the ancient messuages in 1714 manorial survey. It went then by the name of Drarwell and was occupied by the Dale family. The Hearth Tax returns of 1665 refer to a Roger Dale, having property with five hearths. Roger died the same year, leaving the farm to his son, Thomas, a bachelor, aged thirty-two. He later married Margeria Townsend, daughter of a wealthy local farming family, in 1672 which was not uncommon at the time. The parish listings of 1701 confirm a Thomas Dale, yeoman, as living in Penkhull aged sixty-nine. In the list of 1714, his son, also named Thomas, occupied the farm but died four years later in 1719, aged forty-five. His estate was left to his sisters, Elizabeth, and Maria. Between the years 1720 and 1781, both the farm and considerable copyhold land attached passed to the Alsager family of Alsager Hall, near to Congleton.

Almost every possible bit of historical information has been researched to provide a twelve-page essay of over seven-thousand words. To achieve this, the information from Manorial Surveys, extensive Manor Court Rolls covering many centuries have been utilised to the full, tithe schedule, reeve books, census returns, parish registers and other documents far too many to list here, a massive undertaking.

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hea 1 Bucknall Isolation Hospital – its history.

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ByRichard Talbot

The Potteries, as an industrial conurbation consisting mainly of tightly knit groups of hovels, no sanitation, no clean running water and loads of cesspits plus the constant pollution caused by its native industry. Smallpox became almost a never-ending pandemic with no cure, the problem with the sick and dying became an unsolvable problem and the cause then still a mystery. It was not until 1798 that Edward Jenner discovered that a vaccination could prevent smallpox, but the reality was to get people, especially children vaccinated in the 19^th century.

Stoke-on-Trent did not escape the infections, in fact it suffered badly because of its poor cramped accommodation, mostly owned by pottery manufacturers for their workers. For the vast majority of those infected the only accommodation was the workhouse where accommodation was limited to just a few wooden huts with a limited number of beds separated some distance from the main buildings. Care was provided by the odd female inmate who had suffered the disease previously and therefore immune from in getting it again. For this they would receive a payment of a few shillings or a half-bottle of gin. However, the one thing both had in common as the only way to stop its advancement was isolation.

So, from this position came the thought of Isolation Hospitals and the towns of Fenton, Stoke and Hanley combined to solve the problem. Longton did not join them. From this came the search for land isolated which was the all-important factor and finally accepted a large plot in Eaves Lane, Bucknall.

Through the years it treated thousands of patients for the districts who supported it. Later it became a hospital that catered for infectious dieses and finally a hospital for elderly people. Now it has become a large housing estate and all signs of its previous life no longer exists.

An important study for those researching early medicine and treatments in industrial towns.

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hea 10 The Parish Hospital at the Spittals Workhouse – 1842.

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ByRichard Talbot

The title of the building over the entrance door reads – Parish Hospital of Stoke-upon-Trent 1842 and thousands must have passed its doors every day without a glance in that direction. Now the building is a listed Grade II to ensure its preservation as part of the original workhouse complex.

It was built because of the need for a hospital, not just for inmates of the workhouse, but also the people of Stoke who had nowhere to go for any form of treatment. It is now used as offices. An advertisement was placed for tenders in the Potteries Mercury to build a hospital, the first to be erected in the Borough of Stoke. The article gives a whole list of items require in the specification. During the first world war it was set apart as a military hospital and a number of photographs have survived of this time and included in the article.

Full details of its early life and the types of treatment offered is well worth a read and as such an interesting piece for the early years of hospitals.

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hea 11 Causes of death 1789 – Stoke-upon-Trent.

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This is an Excel sheet listing all known diseases of the time, the number of deaths and their ages.

An important contribution to life and death in the 18^th century listing then all known diseases and how many people died as a consequence. It’s a good study for listing the main causes of death in different areas which in many cases was a direct result of either living or manufacturing conditions. A useful document to study for humanities subjects.

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hea 12 Causes of death in Biddulph 1839.

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This again is presented in Excel format of Biddulph deaths recorded but in addition to cause and age it also lists the occupation of those who died, an important feature for any analysis.

An important contribution to life and death in the early part of the18^th century listing then all known diseases and how many people died as a consequence. It’s a good study for listing the main causes of death in different areas which in many cases was a direct result of either living or manufacturing conditions. A useful document to study for humanities subjects.

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hea 13 Chloroform trials at N.Staffs. Infirmary – Etruria.

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ByRichard Talbot

I discovered that it was only a matter of months that chloroform was demonstrated for its properties on humans in 1847 by Scottish obstetrician, Sir James Young Simpson. The report stated that Simpson was the first to demonstrate chloroform, most likely to an audience of his peers. It was described as “this new and important anaesthetic agent – the peculiar powers of which produced insensibility to pain and used widely from the early 1850s.

However, my research proved that it was first discovered, not in Scotland as reported in medical papers but in Etruria at the Peoples Dispensary for the sick with a 15-year-old girl in 1848. Skill and care were required to differentiate between an effective dose (enough to make patient insensible during surgery). In fact, in December 1846 the Potteries Mercury which pre-dates the official published date of the discovery in 1847.

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hea 14 Cholera deaths in Newcastle under Lyme.

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Two hundred and forty-one known deaths in the town of Newcastle under Lyme are recorded in an Excel spread sheet. The record identifies age, occupation, address, rateable value, property owners name, death notice, gravestone and if left a will or not. This is a tremendous document that for the student studying Victorian pandemics it would provide all the necessary information to a valued interpretation of the stats of the effects of such a damaging pandemic on the community and its economic problems it caused.This is presented on an Excel spreadsheet which can be used to extract many different statistics that may interest a student at College or University.

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hea 15 The first use of Ether in the UK – at Etruria in 1842.

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ByRichard Talbot

This three-page document records a significant part that Ether played at the for North Staffs Infirmary at Etruria before which those requiring amputations went through the most agonising surgery with only alcohol as a way of lessening the pain as no anaesthetic had been discovered. Whilst searching the pages of the Staffordshire Advertiser for a totally different subject I came across a most interesting article relating to the first use of ether vapour as an anaesthetic for performing pain free operations as early as 1846 at what was the first North Staffs Infirmary at Etruria before the new one was built in Hartshill in1866.

This story tells how it was a dentist who observed a fellow dentist use nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas,” as aesthetic for a medical demonstration. Unfortunately, the patient awoke while under the aesthetic and he was booed off the stage. After Morton observed this, he consulted a fellow a chemist who suggested using sulfuric ether as anaesthesia for surgery.

For those studying medicine this is a factual story of its very first recorded use at Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent.

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hea 2 Health Report for Newcastle under Lyme 1872.

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ByRichard Talbot

Filthy, unsanitary areas of Pool Dam and Seabridge of Newcastle like in 1872? describes areas of Newcastle under Lyme as filthy, unsanitary areas of Pool Dam and Seabridge perhaps of Newcastle like in 1872. Mainly small cottages and hovels all occupied at the time and occupied by the poor population of the town. It was reported to be entirely neglected by the Newcastle authorities with a filthy sewage stream or brook about ten feet wide running through the area of Pool. In time of flooding the water from the stream rose at least eighteen inches to flood nearby properties and in some of the adjoining houses together with the condition of the cesspools and privies loaded with excrement, leaking and horribly offensive, give rise to a large number of complaints from many of the inhabitants and classed as disgraceful.

The water supply was from wells sunk into the ground along saturated with the filth of generations upon generations of inhabitants. Some of these wells are said to be dry many times during the year. The attention of the Newcastle Corporation was reported as paying no attention to the area nor enforcing the rules regarding sanitation etc.

The main problem was that from 1738 the populations of the district had increased causing additional issues of water and sanitation. The areas covered for the stats are:- Tunstall, Burslem, Sneyd, Rushton Grange, Hanley and Shelton, Penkhull, Boothen, Stoke, Fenton and Longton and Lane End.

This report is a perfect study for colleges or people interested in Social History. Three x A4 pages.

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hea 3 Longe Report 1862 employment of children – Potteries.

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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 4 Measles in the Potteries in the 19th century.

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ByRichard Talbot

For children of measles, mumps and rubella in the middle ages and Victorian times caused considerable concern to medical professionals who rightly feared a major outbreak with terrifying consequences including the loss of life. Since 1796, when Edward Jenner an English country doctor introduced a vaccine for smallpox it has saved more lives worldwide than any other vaccine to date. However, in the case of measles in was not until 1963 that a vaccine became available to protect mainly children but also adults.

The use of historical data used in this article helps us to evaluate and understand this importance of vaccination today. It shows that every town in the potteries was affected by measles in epidemic proportions every few years during the 19^th century.

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hea 5 Medieval Leper Hospital St. Lloy at Trentvale

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ByRichard Talbot

The first century Saint Giles’ lived from about 650 to about 710 and was also known as Giles’ the Hermit and is the patron saint of lepers. This fact could in many ways have led to the possibility, that the church in Newcastle, dedicated to St. Giles’, was the founding body that created the hospital of St. Lloy only a mile south of the town situated at Trent Vale on the area of the A34. Sadly, there is no written confirmation of its connection because until 1807, St. Giles’ was little more than distant chapel of ease in the ancient parish of Stoke-upon-Trent and it’s that church of St Peter-ad-Vincula, which is recorded and not St. Giles’. Reecords state that it was the responsibility of the Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, St Peter ad Vincula,

The location is now occupied by the University Hospital teaching buildings. It is here that once stood a hospital dating from around the middle of the 13th century. Documentary evidence of the hospital of St Lloy has been known for many years, but the exact location remained a mystery until 1985 when excavations to the west of the new hospital wards was being under taken. Here were two skeletons uncovered together with stone foundations and a few sherds of medieval pottery. No serious archaeological work was carried out and the site was covered over to enable a car park to be established. From this time, whatever secrets these finds held were to remain hidden for a further sixteen years.

Little written evidence no longer exists but what there is has been well studied and form the basis of this essay. Great read.

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hea 6 North Staffs Infirmary – from 1802 the one at Etruria.

ByRichard Talbot

The first hospital hospital for Stoke opn Trent was situated in the area known as Etruria from 1802. There is a detailed account of how the hospital met the needs of the area discussed and number of working classes families requiring treatment. Much of the research carried out for this article proves a good insight to medical treatment as well as the hospitals function and finances and the important role that Mr Wedgewood played throughout its life. Wedgewood played throughout its life. Like many properties nearby the hospital started to suffer badly with subsidence which created some urgency in locating a new site away from the industries of the area.

A informative account of its life until it was replaced by a totally new facility with a new name Royal Stoke University Hospital.

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hea 7 Sanitary conditions of the Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent 1872.

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ByRichard Talbot

The inspectors reports identified Penkhull where several privies, were imperfectly covered with stone slabs and full and overflowing, the liquids running over the ground or down the gardens.
Stoke town complained of the water supply of Penkhull was also a serious problem because of its height and reported that it had little pressure to work the pumps in the case of a house fire. Other parts of the township are included such Boothen which is described as entirely neglected with regards to the removal of nuisances, and the drainage is defective. Privy nuisances abound everywhere throughout the hamlet.

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