What is Stoke-on-Trent?
[[Image:EnglandStoke.png|right]] '''Stoke-on-Trent''' is a city in [[Staffordshire]] in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] region of [[England]]. It is also a [[unitary authority]]. Stoke-on-Trent was the home of the [[pottery]] industry in the [[United Kingdom]]. It was a very important exporter in the late 18th, the 19th and up to about 1960. It is commonly known as [[The Potteries]]. The industry was killed off by cheap Chinese pottery after the [[Second World War]], and by the even cheaper plastic homeware. [[Coal mining|Coal]] was its other employment. The furnaces of the [[kiln]]s needed coal. Coal was also a commodity which was exported from the area. The city is unusual in that it is made up of a cluster of six towns {{ndash}} [[Longton]], [[Fenton]], Stoke ([[Stoke-upon-Trent]]), [[Hanley]], [[Burslem]], and [[Tunstall]]. Stoke-on-Trent is known for the [[Supermarine Spitfire]], [[pottery]], [[Staffordshire oatcake|oatcakes]], the [[spark plug]], Sir [[Stanley Mathews]], [[Robbie Williams]], [[slash (musician)|Slash]], [[Arnold Bennett]], [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Captain Smith]] and [[Stoke City F.C.]] (Stoke City is the second oldest professional football club: it was founded in 1863). ==Other websites== * [http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ Stoke-on-Trent City Council] * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/ BBC Stoke website] * [http://www.thepotteries.org/ The Potteries] * [http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/ Local Information from ''The Sentinel'' newspaper] * [http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/ Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922025439/http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/ |date=2007-09-22 }} * [http://www.exploringthepotteries.org.uk Exploring the Potteries] {{English Cities|nocat=yes}} {{multistub|geo|UK}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Stoke-on-Trent| ]]