Memory Lane
1
What is the name of the Potteries-born television personality who became a PE teacher before getting his big break on TV?
2
Where in North Staffordshire did brothers John and David Elers make red earthenware, which revolutionised early potterymaking?
3
In which shared building did the BBC set up Stokeon-trent’s first radio station?
4
Which company set up The Victoria Theatre, below, at Hartshill in 1962?
5
Which king stayed at a house in Uttoxeter while seeking recruits for his army?
6
Who scored nine goals for Port Vale in two successive home games?
7
In 1937, the Wedgwood company bought a country estate at Barlaston to build a factory. Was it 125 acres, 270 acres or 382 acres?
8
Which principal thoroughfare in Stafford was once known as Cow Street?
9
Which Stoke-on-trentborn actor graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1983?
10
Who was the first West Indies Test cricketer to play as a professional in the North Staffs League?
ANSWERS
1
Nick Hancock became a PE teacher before switching to a career in entertainment.
2
Red earthenware was made by John and David Elers at Bradwell Hall and Dimsdale Hall, Porthill
3
The BBC set up the city’s first radio station in 1924 in the Majestic Buildings at Stoke, sharing it with a cinema.
4
The Victoria Theatre was set up in 1962 by the Studio Theatre Company, based at Scarborough and run by Stephen Joseph.
5
The English king was Charles I.
6
Andy Jones scored nine goals for Port Vale in two successive home games. He scored five in a 6-1 win over Newport in the last home game of the 1986-87 campaign and netted all four goals in the first home game of the following season when Vale beat Aldershot 4-2.
7
The country estate at Barlaston bought by Wedgwood in 1937 to build a new factory extended to 382 acres.
8
Cow Street is now called Gaolgate Street.
9
Neil Morrissey graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1983.
10
Manny Martindale who played for Norton and Great Chell.