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 |  Eric Atkinson - born 1914 | | Joseph Higgins - born 1915 |  | | Eric still remembers being taken on a walk with his father.... Click on the link to hear this story | |  | | Joseph's brother was a boxer who took on the world champion. Click on the link to hear this story | | | Ethel Clewes - born 1916 | | Levison Wood - born 1917 |  | | Ethel's father raised eight boys and three girls. Click on the link to hear this story | |  | | Danny Daniels' chance discovery at the city archives! Click on the link to hear this story | | | Lewis Johns - born 1918 | | Constance Horton - born 1919 |  | | Lewis' brother opened one of the first newsagents in Stoke-on-Trent. Click on the link to hear this story | |  | | Constance's mother worked morning till night. Click on the link to hear this story |  | | | |
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| Joan Blackhurst - born 1920 | | Joanne - born 1921 |  | | Born at the Eadle Inn in Hanley Joan's family have connections with the area. Click on the link to hear this story | |  | | After her grandfather remarried Joanne had an Auntie who was more like a sister. Click on the link to hear this story | | | | | Sid Bailey - born 1922 | | Mary Davis - born 1923 |  | | A family Legend prompted Sid to find out more. Click on the link to hear this story | |  | | With nine siblings Mary always looked forward to Christmas.... Click on the link to hear this story | |
| Events between 1914-1923 | Europe (and later the World) is rocked by the outbreak of The First World War in 1914. The war would rage for another four years at a cost of millions of lives.
The Panama Canal opens to shipping for the first time.
The Brassiere is patented by Mary Phelps Jacob.
Stanley Matthews "The Wizard Of Dribble" was born in Hanley 1915. He played first class football over thirty years and maintained close contact with Stoke City F.C. after his retirement in 1965.
Tragedy struck in 1918 when the Minnie Pit Disaster in Halmerend claimed 155 lives. |
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