Portal : Staffordshire/Did you know
...the Home Office initially refused to grant Stoke-on-Trent city status , but this decision was over turned when a direct approach was made to George V ?
...that from the reign of Queen Mary until 1888, Lichfield
...that Fascist MP Oswald Mosley (pictured ) Oswald Mosley Apedale Hall Newcastle-under-Lyme ?
...that the Diocese of Lichfield archdeaconries ?
...that according to historian Rev. H B Kendall Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor Staffordshire ?
... that George Speake Staffordshire helmet ?
... that Winton Square Stoke-on-Trent has been described as the best example of neo-Jacobean architecture in Staffordshire?
... that in medieval Tutbury , Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull
... that visitors can walk through Trentham Monkey Forest Staffordshire without any barriers between them and the 140 Barbary macaques that live there?
... that British police officer Suzette Davenport Staffordshire and intelligence in the West Midlands ?
... that the Four Counties Ring canal ring linking the English counties of Cheshire , Staffordshire , Shropshire , and the West Midlands ?
... that the Staffordshire County League (South) football club representatives at the People's Coffee House in Walsall ?
... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest Francis Mundy
...that according to historian Rev. H B Kendall , five Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor Staffordshire ?
... that Bethesda Methodist Chapel Hanley , Staffordshire , now redundant , has been known as the "Cathedral of the Potteries "?
... that the windmill in Werrington briquettes ?
