India Cottage on the corner of Market Place and Westport Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

I’d like to welcome new visitors to a small selection of buildings to the north of St John’s Square in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. It’s hard to picture how much these streets have changed over the last century but The Vanished Landscape by the historian Paul Johnson gives a great insight into life growing up in the Potteries with ‘the strange beauty of its volcanic landscape of fiery furnaces belching out heat and smoke‘.

A few of the old buildings remain, in between later additions and here is the latest in the Burslem street series, archiving each building in turn.

The New Inn, 50 Market Place, Burslem

Ideal Homes Furnishing, 48 Market Place, Burslem

Robert Stone, 44 Market Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

John E Keenan, chartered surveyor,  and Halifax….no sign of them here now

Hog Noggin, 38 Market Place, listed grade 2, 18th century

Kentucky Fried Chicken, 36 Market Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Listed grade 2, 18th century.

Thanks for reading,

Ronnie