Memory Lane

1

For what boyhood feat is 18thcentury soldier Lord Clive of India best remembered in his native Market Drayton?

2

Tennis stars Fred Perry and Dan Maskell played an exhibition match in North Staffordshire in 1949. Who hosted the occasion?

3

Which group of musicmakers rose to national fame under three brothers named Mortimer who moved to South Cheshire in 1924?

4

Where was Shelley’s Laserdome, a mecca for clubbers in the 1990s, situated?

5

In which year was Webberley’s Bookshop, in Hanley, founded?

6

Which factory at Crewe gave its name to a Grimsby trawler that became the champion minesweeper of the Second World War?

7

Who was Port Vale’s top scorer in the 1971-72 season?

8

What was the original name of The Sugarmill, in Brunswick Street, Hanley, pictured?

9

Scelfitone was the name of which Potteries parish in the Domesday Book?

10

What small recreational item used mainly by men was made at Newcastle for 200 years up to around 1850?

ANSWERS

1

As a schoolboy, Lord Clive of India climbed the tower of Market Drayton Parish Church.

2

In 1949, Fred Perry and Dan Maskell played an exhibition match at Basford Tennis Club.

3

Fred, Harry and Rex Mortimer were three brothers who moved to South Cheshire in 1924 and raised Fodens Motor Works Band, of Sandbach, to national fame.

4

Shelley’s Laserdome was in Edensor Road, Longton.

5

Webberley’s Bookshop, in Hanley, was founded in 1913 by Longton-born Alexander Webberley.

6

The Rolls-royce factory at Crewe gave its name to a Grimsby trawler that was the champion minesweeper of the Second World War.

7

Bobby Gough was Vale’s top scorer in 1971-72.

8

Live music venue and nightclub, The Sugarmill, in Brunswick Street, Hanley, was first opened in 1994 as The Stage. It was renamed The Sugarmill in 1999.

9

Scelfitone was the name given to Shelton.

10

For two centuries up to about 1850, Newcastle had a small industry producing clay pipes.