Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent is a city in Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England. It is also a unitary authority.

Stoke-on-Trent was the home of the pottery industry in the United Kingdom. It was a very important exporter in the late 18th, the 19th and up to about 1960. It is commonly known as The Potteries. The industry was killed off by cheap Chinese pottery after the Second World War, and by the even cheaper plastic homeware.

Coal was its other employment. The furnaces of the kilns needed coal. Coal was also a commodity which was exported from the area.

The city is unusual in that it is made up of a cluster of six towns – Longton, Fenton, Stoke (Stoke-upon-Trent), Hanley, Burslem, and Tunstall.

Stoke-on-Trent is known for the Supermarine Spitfire, pottery, oatcakes, the spark plug, Sir Stanley Mathews, Robbie Williams, Slash, Arnold Bennett, Captain Smith and Stoke City F.C. (Stoke City is the second oldest professional football club: it was founded in 1863).

Stoke-on-Trent Media

Restored bottle kilns, Stoke-on-Trent
Colorado Bouillons Regina and teapots, vitrified tableware by Dudson Brothers Ltd.
Porcelain teapot by Henry and Richard Daniel, 1830
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery
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The Dharmacakra, "Wheel of Dharma", a symbol for Bodhi Dharma… or Buddh'ism in the West
AUM, a stylised letter of Devanagari script, used as a religious symbol in Hinduism
The Star of David, the symbol of the Jewish faith and people. Also called Shield of David after the Hebrew Magen David
A symbol of Islam, the star and crescent, in a green. Created by Kbolino in Inkscape, who releases the image into the public domain for all intents and purposes.

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