* The Underground ( Stoke concert venue ), a club / music venue based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Williams is a lifelong supporter of Port Vale, based in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent.

Williams has been the Patron of the children's charity the Donna Louise Trust based in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, for the last 8 years.

Stoke City Football Club are an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that play in the Premier League.

Stoke's local rivals are Port Vale, based in the Burslem area of Stoke-on-Trent.

They are based in Burslem, Staffordshire, one of six towns that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

Like neighbouring Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle's early economy was based around hatting trade, silk and cotton mills.

It is based north of the village of Alton in Staffordshire ( approximately east of Stoke-on-Trent, and not to be confused with the town of Alton in Hampshire ), in the grounds of Alton Towers, a semi-ruined gothic revival country house.

The company was based in Stoke-on-Trent and was nicknamed The Knotty ; its lines were built to the standard gauge of.

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It has two main campuses based in the city of Stoke-on-Trent and in the county town of Stafford, with other campuses in Lichfield and Shrewsbury.

Various faculty movements and further building work resulted in North Staffordshire Polytechnic being formed in 1971 with the merger of Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, North Staffordshire College of Technology ( both based in Stoke-on-Trent ), and Staffordshire College of Technology in Stafford.

* CERAM, a materials testing organisation based in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent

Until 2006, Tutbury Crystal, a manufacturer of high-quality cut glass products, was based in the village -- however production transferred to Stoke-on-Trent as the existing factory was very old and was thought to be too small for the modern company's requirements.

Stoke-on-Trent based Signal Radio assumed control of the station, following difficulties in its latter incarnation, and KFM became memorable almost solely for its 7: 00 p. m .-1: 00 a. m. Night-time KFM output.

Journalists are also based at newsrooms in Wolverhampton, Coventry, Hereford, Worcester, Stoke-on-Trent, and Shrewsbury.

Spode is a well-known English brand of pottery and homewares based in Stoke-on-Trent.

Spode is a Stoke-on-Trent based pottery company that was founded by Josiah Spode ( 1733-1797 ) in 1770.

Today Spode is owned by Portmeirion Group – a pottery and homewares company based in Stoke-on-Trent.

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The town ’ s library lies on Baker Street, and is based within the Carnegie library, the only such building in Stoke-on-Trent.

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In 2007, he made an appearance on an edition of Antiques Roadshow recorded in Stoke-on-Trent, talking about some of the items in his collection of football memorabilia.

Other nearby local attractions are the local football club Leek Town F. C., Alton Towers, the cultural and leisure facilities of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and the Peak District National Park.

The Britannia Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Stoke-on-Trent, England and the home of Premier League club Stoke City Football Club.

Sir John Robert Madejski OBE DL (; born Robert John Hurst on 28 April 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent ) is an English businessman, with commercial interests, spanning property, broadcast media, hotels, restaurants, publishing and football.

Denis Smith ( born 19 November 1947 in Stoke-on-Trent ) is an English football manager and former player.

* The Old Recreation Ground, a former football stadium in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England

The first Minor Counties side played a three-day match at Stoke-on-Trent against the South African cricket team that toured Britain and Ireland in 1912 and that took part in the Triangular Tournament.

He returned to Stoke-on-Trent to sign for Port Vale in August 1981.

* The china clay train from Cliff Vale ( Stoke-on-Trent ) – St Blazey ( Cornwall ) is limited to 60 mph, so it is a class 6 train.

Included are his Stoke-on-Trent poems, which are: At Stoke ; The Slag Heap ; Steel ; Canal ; Poem for My Father ; John Maydew ; The Hand at Callow Hill Farm ; The Farmer's Wife ; Black Brook ; The Question ; The Shaft ; After a Death ; Night Ride ; Gladstone Street ; Etruria Vale ; Penkhull New Road ; The Way In ; The Tree ; Midlands ; Portrait of the Artist I ; Portrait of the Artist II ; The Hoard ; Consolations for Double Bass ; The Rich ; Class ; The Hawthorn in Trent Vale ; Written on Water ; The Marl Pits.

309613 / 616 / 617 / 624 / 626 / 627, were quickly put to use on suburban passenger services from Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe and Stoke-on-Trent.

Otherwise their use was limited to summer relief services, particularly to Skegness often under the adopted title of The Jolly Fisherman starting from various places including Burton-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, Derby and Leicester.

Along the line between Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent, many stations are in use, but not served by rail services.

* World renowned ceramics collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museum Click on Quick Links in the right-hand column to view examples.

Williams was born to Peter and Janet Williams in Stoke-on-Trent on 13 February 1974.

In 1761, Josiah Wedgwood showed an interest in the construction of a canal through Stoke-on-Trent, the location of his Wedgwood pottery, as his business depended on the safe and smooth transport of his pots.

Six years before the complete opening of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1771, Wedgwood built the factory village of Etruria on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent, close to the canal.

There is also James Brindley Science College ( previously James Brindley High School ) in Chell, Stoke-on-Trent, and also, the Brindley's Lock pub on Silverstone Crescent, Stoke-on-Trent.

The mainline Stoke-on-Trent railway station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway ( NSR ) on 9 October 1848, replacing the temporary station sited at Whieldon road, which was constructed for the opening of the first NSR line on 17 April 1848.

Indie rocker Stephen Malkmus mentions Stoke-on-Trent in " Pink India ", released on his self-titled solo album, singing that the song's protagonist, Mortimer, is a " rook " in The Great Game, who " came from Stoke-on-Trent.

Peter Wyngarde, as the title character of Jason King, makes a quip about a " knicker salesman from Stoke-on-Trent " in the episode " Flamingos only fly on Tuesdays ".

The town was once served by the North Staffordshire Railway, its station being on a branch line from Stoke-on-Trent via Newcastle, Silverdale and Keele, to Market Drayton in Shropshire.

Newcastle was on the national canal network, but the canal, running from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Stoke-on-Trent to Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal has been disused since 1935 and most of it filled in.

An exploratory committee was established by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, chaired by Lindsay and supported by Alderman Thomas Horwood, Vicar of Etruria and leader of the Labour group on the City Council.

While he was engaged at Radcliffe, Sobers underwent emotional trauma after a road accident in September 1959 on the A34 near Stoke-on-Trent which resulted in Collie Smith's death.

It is on the River Tern, between Shrewsbury and Stoke-on-Trent, and was formerly known as " Drayton in Hales " ( c. 1868 ) and earlier simply as " Drayton " ( c. 1695 ).

On 29 September 2007, Lauder-Frost as guest-of-honour rededicated for another century the Burslem Golf Course & Club at Stoke-on-Trent, which had been formally opened on the same day in 1907 by Harry Lauder.

She appeared on stage as a cast member in Cinderella at the Regent Theatre Stoke-on-Trent in December 1999 and January 2000.

Rugeley Trent Valley lies on the West Coast Main Line, and now has a regular hourly service to London via Lichfield, Nuneaton, Rugby and Milton Keynes, and to Crewe via Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent.

Jenny Barker ( born December 29, 1974 ) was the drive time presenter on Cross Rhythms City Radio in Stoke-on-Trent in 2005.

He appeared at Fenton Magistrates ' Court on 9 June and was granted conditional bail until 16 June when he appeared at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.

Madejski was born Robert John Hurst on 28 April 1941, in Stoke-on-Trent, as a result of a wartime fling, being initially placed with a foster family.

It passes the leisure centre on the right, then veers right at a junction with the B5045 ( which continues on the main road ), where it enters the City of Stoke-on-Trent.