Dave
Burton Stores Hanley This list was very interesting to me as I have been researching my ancestors and unable to get information further than the 1901 census. Albert Owen who ran the Burton Stores in Broad St was my great uncle and my great aunt (Emily Owen) was married to D Appleby who ran the one in Parliament row. My grandfather William Owen was brought up there with the Appleby family from the age of 3 after his mother died.

Hazel Nickisson
I would be interested to hear more about Thomas Nickisson of The New Inn, 146 Broad Street or indeed any Nickisson's as I'm researching my family name. (The BBC is unable to post email addresses on it's messageboards - if people have information contact BBC Stoke Online)

JEvans
I can remember the Angle in High street Hanley had peace of glass stuck across one of its plate glass windows My Grandfather told me that it was from one of the fairs held in market square he said that the Cocoanut shy was there and one man threw one of the wooden balls through the canvers sheet and through the glass window and he lived on High Street. His mother and sister had milliners in the high streetjust below the church.

Ellen McConnell
My ancestor Sarah Barhtolomew was the licensee of the Star Inn, Marsh St in the 1860s and 70s. I would like to know something of this history if anyone can help.

Anne Hunt
Maypole dancing at Alexandra Infants School , Normacot. Still takes place every year. Led by Anne Hunt and Chris Winkle.

mrs carolyn hunt
My great grand father Joseph Twigg was the proprieter of the Three Crowns Inn in Hope Street, and appears on the 1901 census. It was then taken over by his son (my Grandfather, also Joseph Twigg), who was in residence in 1913, the year of his marriage to Florence Millward. My father (also Joseph Twigg) was born in the Three Crowns but I don't know when the family moved. I don' ever recall seeing the pub, but know that it was demolished several years ago when the road system was altered. My mother has a photograph of the Three Crowns which shows the family standing outside. However typically, since I began to trace my family history, it has disappeared! Incidently if anyone has any information on the Trent Tavern which was on the Longton Road (and maybe still is but I've yet to find out), I'd be very interested as it was run by my great great grandmother and her 2nd husband John Ratcliffe.

Harry Powell
Refers to the Three Tuns Inn, 9 Bucknall New Road, which my family ran from about 1935 to 1959. This was under the licencee's name of Percy Samuel Powell, my grandfather. A couple of stories about the pub might be of interest. The first, topical for 2005, is that we had a record, in the form of a ticket, of a Ball held there in 1805 to celibrate "Nelson's famous Victory". So the pub was built prior to that date. The second relates to the stables which were at the rear of the pub, accessed through the double gates and archway. These, before the 2nd War, were used to house the elephants for the Circus, possibly Chipperfield's, when it visited Hanley. The boy who tended the elephants was supposed to sleep in the stables with them but we used to let him sleep on the third floor in the staff's/servant's quarters - much to the annoyance of his boss. The elephants used to troop out "trunk to tail" every day to walk to the circus tents - which I seem to recall were pitched on open ground off Regent's Road, Hanley - or was that the fairground?.....

ADE AMLWCH
I ONCE HAD A BOOKING IN UPTON I TURNED UP ON DECEMBER THE TWENTY FOURTH AND LEFT IN MARCH

ADE AMLWCH
HELLO THE SALLEST PUB THAT I EVER USED WAS TWO FOOT BY TWO FOOT AFTER A NIGHT OF FUN AND FROLICKS I WAS LATER INFORMED I HAD SPENT THE NIGHT IN THE TOILET ALL THE BEST VADE

tony williams
on the good times programe, you were i believe looking for nominations for a traditional pub in Longton, i would like to nominate THE GARDENERS REST on trentham rd, when you were on the F AND G section it was the only one left. thanks, they work hard do John and Pat and are due to retire any time now so it may be the last time its seen in its old ways. its the type of old smokey pub where a man could leave the allotments and call for a pint, or go next door to the bookies, place your bet then come back and watch the race with a pint. dood lod fashioned landlord and lady trained by a brewery correctly, not many around now.

Roy from Blurton
Some years ago my best frend gave me some cassette tapes he had made about his childhood for me to put down on paper i made copies of them ,but it was several years before i actually did put them down on paper, my mate has since unfortunately passed away.In recent months my daughter has nagged me to get the papers out so she can type them out (there are 60 A4 )pages.As Terry Walsh is doing Pubs of Longton on his Sunday program I thought the following may be of interest:- there was a pub by the name of the California Inn ,and it was known locally as "the bull& bush" and in the stables at the back, a couple of chappies stabled their horses and we would go down there and work the chopping machine, that was a machine with two large blades on it and you stuffed the hopper with hay and pushed it down with a stick and two of us lads would turn the handle and it cut up into short lengths to feed the horses with, in those days these carters certainly looked after their horses, my own experience was of a chappie we knew as Roughdog and he would turn out at 4 oclock in the morning to start work, he came down with his own food....and he feed his own horse..groomed him and made sure that his horse had a full belly to start work and he didnt have to be at work until 7 oclock in a morning, but he said that nobody can work on an empty belly and he ensured that this applied to his horse having a full belly to go to work..these carters were like this ..they were religious in cleanling the brasses and harnesses and some of these horses were really spectacular to look at and there seemed to be a bond between horse and owner. I have another story about Roughdog which I will tell later.....Roy

Sandra Rowe
Dous anyone have information relating to The Angel Inn, Park Street, Fenton?I believe it dates back to 1746.

Michael Rowley
Apparently their used to be a street in Hanley called Antelope Street which was where one of my ancestors used to live. i have tried and failed in finding out where exactly that was but i imagine it could have been Trinity Street becuase of the name of the Antelope Hotel listed above. Anybody got any ideas if i am correct?