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Staffordshire / Re: Pub in Hanley / Shelton 1900
« on: Thursday 11 October 12 20:15 BST (UK)  »
No 5 was the Blue Bell Inn which was named after the Blue Bell Pottery at the rear - now the site of the museum.  The pottery closed and was demolished in the 1950's and the pub went the same way in the early 1960's.  A licensee in the early 1950's was Neil Franklin who played football for Stoke City and England who later moved to the Bell & Bear on Snowhill at Shelton.
Broad Street was a continuation of Piccadilly and my number of 22 pubs is for both of these.

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Staffordshire / Re: Pub in Hanley / Shelton 1900
« on: Thursday 11 October 12 16:12 BST (UK)  »
Do you have a house number?  I have a list of 22 pubs once in Broad Street, and it isn't  a very long street, and some have house numbers.  It was one of those streets where if you tried to have a half pint in every pub only the dedicated drinker would reach the end.

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Staffordshire / Re: strays on the canals
« on: Monday 02 July 12 20:07 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks.  I had come across the 1891 entry before but wasn't sure as they had no connection with Audley and there is no canal there.  With regard to the other two census returns I thought that I had tried all variants of the name but wouldn't have thought of the recorded surnames in a hundred years. 

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Staffordshire / Re: strays on the canals
« on: Sunday 01 July 12 13:57 BST (UK)  »
Members of the Buttress family worked the canals between Oakamoor (Staffs) and Oldbury and Liverpool throughout the 1800's; the ones on the Liverpool run later became known as Butters.  I can find William Buttress (b.1835) and his wife Elizabeth (b.1836) (not to be confused with William and Harriet who were of similar ages) at Oldbury in 1851 and 1861 but can't find them again until 1901 when they left the canals and appear in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.  They only had one child, William James (b.1876) who again I can't find in a census return until 1901.
Can anyone help?

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