Longton, Stoke-on-Trent - Gladstone Pottery Museum - drawing a trial c.1930

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• Picture / Image:  Gladstone - the living and working Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire - shows a picture from 1930 of 'drawing a trial'
• Publisher:  the museum, c.1980s
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Longton is a southern district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, and is known locally as the ""Neck End"" of the city. Longton is one of the six towns of ""the Potteries"" which formed the City of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910. It incorporates Normacot.

Longton ('long village') was a market town in the parish of Stoke in the county of Staffordshire. The town still has a market housed in an attractively renovated market hall.

In March 1865, Longton and Lane End were incorporated as the Borough of Longton. On 1 April 1910, the town was federated into the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. By the end of 1910 the area was granted city status. One legacy of Longton's administrative independence from 1865 to 1910 is Longton Town Hall, a prominent landmark in the town centre. In 1986 Longton Town Hall faced demolition by Stoke-on-Trent City Council amid considerable local protest. Work on stripping the interior had already begun before an injunction was brought and the building saved.

Together with Rochdale, then in Lancashire, Longton was host to the first Workers Educational Association tutorial classes. R.H. Tawney, known as “the patron saint of adult education”,^[1] taught the classes for three years from January 1908. For a time, until he moved to Manchester in 1909, Tawney was working as part-time economics lecturer at Glasgow University. To fulfil his teaching commitments to the WEA, he travelled first to Longton for the evening class every Friday, before travelling north to Rochdale for the Saturday afternoon class.

Coal miners in the Hanley and Longton area ignited the 1842 General Strike and associated Pottery Riots.

Arnold Bennett referred to Longton as Longshaw in his novels centred on the Potteries towns.

The district has a long history as a base for the pottery industry, such as Paragon China and Aynsley, and several major manufacturers still have a presence, along with Gladstone Pottery Museum. Roslyn Works, which adjoins the latter, is now home to several small-scale manufacturers of ceramics.

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