Memory Lane

1

How is Ernest Beard, below,

best remembered by the radio listeners of Stoke-ontrent?

2

How did the actress Dorothy Cheston become associated with the Potteries in the 1920s?

3

Can you name the North Staffordshire couple who both competed in motor sport into their old age, driving vintage racing cars?

4

Can you name Leek’s three 1950s cinemas?

5

Which three Potteries MPS of yesteryear were known in the House of Commons as Stoke United?

6

Can you name the first pub run by Stoke City footballer Neil Franklin?

7

Which superstar-to-be performed in Hanley under his own name of Reg Dwight, in 1965 when he was virtually unknown?

8

Where in North Staffordshire did

Dick Francis compete professionally?

9

What was the disease known as potter’s rot, which used to be prevalent among pottery workers?

10

Which Welsh international joined Port Vale in 1958 after a career with Cardiff, Norwich and Birmingham?

ANSWERS

1

Ernest Beard became a film critic for Radio Stoke in 1968.

2

Dorothy Cheston met Five Towns novelist Arnold Bennett in the 1920s and became his common-law wife.

3

The couple were Bunty Scott-moncrieff and his wife Averil, who lived at Basford, near Cheddleton.

4

Leek boasted three cinemas in the 1950s – the Grand, the Palace and the Majestic.

5

The three Potteries MPS known as Stoke United were Harriet Slater, Barnett Stross and Ellis Smith.

6

The Blue Bell in Hanley was run by Neil Franklin.

7

A youthful Sir Elton John came to The Place nightclub with a group called Bluesology.

8

National Hunt meetings at Woore Racecourse attracted professional jockeys who later became famous. These included Dick Francis.

9

Potter’s rot was the colloquial name for the dust diseases of silicosis and pneumoconiosis.