Market Place (52 to 36) Burslem

drawing of India Cottage, Market Place Burslem
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.

2 New Inn 50 market place burslem
The New Inn, 50 Market Place, Burslem
3 Ideal Homes market place burslem
Ideal Homes Furnishing, 48 Market Place, Burslem
4 Pearl Assurance market place burslem
Robert Stone, 44 Market Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
5 John Keenan market place burslem
John E Keenan, chartered surveyor,  and Halifax….no sign of them here now
6 Hog noggin market place burslem
Hog Noggin, 38 Market Place, listed grade 2, 18th century
7 KFC 36 market place burslem
Kentucky Fried Chicken, 36 Market Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Listed grade 2, 18th century.

Thanks for reading,

Ronnie

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