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website to others and enter into discussion with other users.
Please submit your comment to museums@stoke.gov.uk
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Helen Green (sent 4th
August 2003)
Hello, discovered your site today and enjoyed browsing through it. One
suggestion that would be of tremendous help and interest to all of us doing
genealogy searches. If you could add the names on each of the war memorials to
the relevant page it could help some of us who can only use the internet to
search. I live in Canada but my father and his family for generations lived in
Hanley, Longton, Caverswall and Normacot. I found the name of a great-great uncle
who drowned on HMS Victoria in 1893 on a memorial site of Portsmouth and area.
No one remembered his Christian name and there it was! Yours truly Helen Green,
Vancouver Island, Canada
- Project team reply: Thanks for the suggestion. We are currently working on
the war memorials section and will be adding the names of soldiers featured on
the monuments. However, a number of the memorials in the area have no names
listed..
Mr. Mick Nugent (sent 4th
July 2003):
Very grateful to this site for the useful links it gave me to the coal mining
industry in and around Stoke-on-Trent. As I'm now living in Australia, sites
like this allow me to make the magic leap to the resources held in The Potteries
Museum and Art Gallery. I've gained lots of background information on the history
of my grandfather, who used to work as a miner at Chatterley Whitfield way back
in the late 1890's and early 1900's.
Memories of Silverdale from Mr. Kenneth Holland (sent 12th May 2003):
'I worked in the Silverdale Mine during the Second World War. I was enlisted as a
Bevin Boy and I remember being stuck in an Air Raid for eight hours with no
light, which was a moment I shall not forget. The manager Mr. Nickin demanded a
shilling for the broken lamp, which I refused to pay; fines like this were usual
and Mr. Nickin and I never got on. However I found the whole experience
interesting meeting many local people. We all did about six years of duty.'
Mr.Peter Henley (sent 14th
April 2003):
I've only just discovered this site after reading about it in The Sentinel and
its really GREAT. Even the map is excellent as you can zoom into every
street and road name. I've just sent an e-mail to my brother in New Zealand with
the web site details as I know he will want to visit it. WELL DONE.
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