| Description | Stoke-on-Trent was a County Borough of Staffordshire between 1910 to 1974. The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent was not styled as a City until 1925. Stoke-on-Trent was granted the right to call itself a City by King George V in 1925, this grant was renewed by Royal Charter in 1974 and 1997. Following Local Government Reorganisation in 1974 Stoke-on-Trent was no longer a County Borough, it exercised the powers of a District Council, until the Local Government Reorganisation in 1997 when Stoke-on-Trent City Council exercised the powers of Unitary Authority.
The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent continued the functions of Burslem Municipal Borough Council; Fenton Urban District Council; Hanley Council; Longton Municipal Borough Council; Smallthorne Urban District Council; Stoke-upon-Trent Municipal Borough Council and Tunstall Urban District Council, for earlier records please see the relevant Council records.
This Collection consists of the following Accessions, some of which are not yet catalogued (as indicated below):
Accession Number: D4467 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SA/CS (semi-catalogued - consists of city surveyors' maps, please ask staff for further details)
Accession Number: SA/LG (catalogued)
Accession Number: SA/ED (uncatalogued)
Accession Number SA/MT (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1001 (uncatalogued - consists of 4 items as follows: SD 1001/4: Sanitary legislation of 1890, relating to urban sanitary authorities; SD 1001/5: Financial statement for the year ended 31st March 1911; SD 1001/6-7 cash book and accounts ledger for County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent Central School of Science and Technology, 1912-1951)
Accession Number: SD 1003 (uncatalogued - consists of Stoke on Trent City Council Education Department files)
Accession Number: SD 1008 (uncatalogued - consists of bundle of documents relating to Stoke on Trent and District Social Service Emergency Council [1941])
Accession Number: SD 1009 (uncatalogued - consists of Stoke and Hanford Library reports [c 1951-1960], stockbook [1938-1960] and issues [1960-1974])
Accession Number: SD 1023 (part) (uncatalogued - consists of Chief Electrical Engineer's reports, 20th cent, and medical reports of the workforce (various departments), 1940s)
Accession Number: SD 1071 (uncatalogued - consists of County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent Burial Board, purchases of burial spaces in Burslem Cemetery, 1914-1915; County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent Burial Board, purchases of burial spaces in Tunstall Cemetery, n.d. [c1900s]; Fenton Cemetery wages books, 1887-1913; County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent letter book, 1904-1923; City of Stoke-on-Trent - city development plan, c1957-1959; City of Stoke-on-Trent - abstract of the accounts of the corporation, year ended 31 Mar 1939; County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent - information on hire of stalls in Longton Market Hall [c1900s]; Clearance area compulsory purchase orders, 1980s; housing clearance registers; Stoke annexation scheme map, 1930; Stoke-on-Trent extension bill map, 1931; Longton market rental ledgers, 1800s-1900s; Longton town hall lettings registers)
Accession Number: SD 1077 (uncatalogued - Lord Mayor's visitors book, 1925-1974)
Accession Number: SD 1079 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1086 (uncatalogued - consists of maps and plans relating to development plans, town centre redevelopments and land use, 1907-1976; predominantly plans of road improvement lines (road widening), also includes plan of new council chamber for the County Borough of Hanley, 1907). Draft list available on request.
Accession Number: SD 1094 (uncatalogued - consists of Hanley Library letter book, 1889-1921, Hanley reference library extraordinary queries book, 1946-1957 and Burslem Public Free Library catalogue, 1914. Hanley Librarian A J Milward bcame Chief Librarian on Federation)
Accession Number: SD 1103 (uncatalogued - consists of several rolls of maps and plans relating to the redevelopment of the city, c1940s-1950s, and clearance areas, 1978-1979; also 4 volumes from the Stoke-on-Trent City Architects, Planning and Reconstruction Department as follows: derelict land schedule, 1966, schedule of marl holes, Oct 1967 and report and plans for proposed new city abattoir, 1938)
Accession Number: SD 1116 (uncatalogued - includes Association for Promoting the Federation of the Potteries Towns document concerning opinions as to the advantage of federating the Potteries district, nd; applications by the Borough of Stoke-on-Trent and the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme for the extension of boundaries, 1920 and 1930-1931; news cuttings relating to the Potteries Federation taken from the Staffordshire Advertiser and the Sentinel, 1908-1909; news cuttings relating to the consideration by the House of Commons of Local Government Provisional Order (no. 3) Bill, July 1908)
Accession Number: SD 1126 (uncatalogued - consists of a list of Commissioners for the Peace, dated 18 Jul 1911, with amendments up until 1972)
Accession Number: SD 1127 (uncatalogued - consists of index cards listing details of individual canal boats registered with Stoke-on-Trent Corporation, numbered 561-974, (109 items) some missing. Includes details of boats registered from 1896 onwards, with changes of ownership, inspections and contraventions, c1930s-1950s. Also includes journal of Inspector of Canal Boats, Public Health Department, Stoke-on-Trent, containing details of ownership, condition of boats etc., 1934-1969).
Accession Number: SD 1189 (uncatalogued - deeds to council owned properties in Stoke-on-Trent; see Section 16 for details)
Accession Number: SD 1191 (uncatalogued - 6" Ordnance Survey plans marked up for city development plan, c1950)
Accession Number SD 1195 (uncatalogued - consists of plans of improvement lines under the compulsory purchase orders for the construction of the A50)
Accession Number: SD 1196 (uncatalogued - consists of 2 boxes of files relating to unemployment and housing statistics research for City Architect, Planning and Reconstruction Department project, c1950-1970)
Accession Number: SD 1203 (uncatalogued - consists of records of the Volunteer Service Committee set up during the General Strike, 1926)
Accession Number: SD 1207 (uncatalogued - consists of photographs and publicity material relating to Cobridge Community Renewal, 1995-2000)
Accession Number: SD 1213 (uncatalogued - consists of land use maps and housing stock survey maps, coloured Ordnance Survey 6" 1957 edition, c120 maps)
Accession Number: SD 1214 part (uncatalogued, see items 11-19 - includes valuation list of 1934 for Abbey Hulton, Blurton, Bucknall, Fenton, Hanford, Hanley, Lightwood, Longton, Meir, Milton and Norton, with alterations to 1956; northern part of Abbey Hulton in Milton and southerm part in Bucknall section, Blurton in Trentham section, northern part of Meir in Caverswall section, southern part in Stone Rural section)
Accession Number: SD 1231/3. Records of the public assistance and welfare services committees. Other records in this accession are for Westcliffe Institution and Stoke and Wolstanton Poor Law Union. Please ask staff for further details.
Accession Number: SD 1240 (uncatalogued - consists of 2 plans showing allocation for interment of soldiers who have died of wounds in the war hospitals at Hartshill Cemetery, 1917)
Accession Number: SD 1243 (uncatalogued - consists of 3 plans of Burslem Town Centre by-pass proposal, 1989-1991)
Accession Number: SD 1249 (uncatalogued - consists of minutes of the Stoke-on-Trent Men's Voluntary Motor Corps, branch of the Voluntary Civil Defence Services based at Cauldon Depot, Shelton; members wore ARP (Air Raid Precaution) badge), 1940-1945)
Accession Number: SD 1266 (uncatalogued - consists of 5 booklets detailing power house extensions and electricity supply, 1925-1932)
Accession Number: SD 1283 (uncatalogued - consists of work study reports on council departments produced for Stoke-on-Trent City Council by S. J. Noel-Bowen & Co., consultants to industry and local government, 1962-1963)
Accession Number: SD 1285 (uncatalogued - consists of monthly reports of Stoke-on-Trent City Librarian to Committee, 20th century)
Accession Number: SD 1308 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1314 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1320 (uncatalogued) c25 volumes, including: valuation books; Stoke on Trent Local Military Tribunal records, 1915-1917; miscellaneous licensing records; accounts (3 volumes); Calendars of Prisoners to be tried at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at Town Hall Hanley, (Jan 1908- Feb 1918)
Accession Number: SD 1325 (uncatalogued - consists of pre-registration title deeds and documents to properties in Stoke-on-Trent, draft list available on request)
Accession Number: SD 1362 (uncatalogued - consists of highway records relating to street naming and numbering, 20th cent, and Borough of Burslem, private street works procedure book, 19th-20th cent)
Accession Number: SD 1363 (uncatalogued - consists of Social Services Committee file, 1973-1974 and Children's Committee file, 1957-1958)
Accession Number: SD 1372 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1385 (uncatalogued - consists of indexed copy of Stoke-on-Trent Education Committee minutes for the period covering November 1916 to April 1917)
Accession Number: SD 1391 (uncatalogued - consists of folder of papers on programme of work commissioned by Stoke on Trent City Council and the North Staffordshire Health Authority to investigate the pattern of ill health within the city)
Accession Number: SD 1392 (uncatalogued - consists of file of papers concerning pre-1968 development plan, including street plans, list of non-conforming industries and list of objectors)
Accession Number: SD 1411 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1412 (uncatalogued - consists of reports of fire and police departments to the watch committee, 1959, booklet on the history of the city, nd, booklet entitled A brief chronology of local government in Stoke-on-Trent, 1955, and jubilee programme, 1960)
Accession Number: SD 1422 (uncatalogued - consists of 67 volumes and 1 box of signed minutes of the Stoke-on-Trent Education Committee, 1910-1974)
Accession Number: SD 1452 (uncatalogued - consists of rate books listing brief description of property, owners and occupiers for Hanley, 1862-1916; Stoke, 1878-1922; Tunstall, 1848-1883; Longton, 1913-1915; Fenton, 1912-1915; Burslem, 1911-1916; Shelton, 1907-1915)
Accession Number: SD 1474 (uncatalogued - plan (on ordnance survey) of proposals submitted as part of the 1925 Town Planning order for Stoke-on-Trent, southern area)
Accession Number: SD 1498 (uncatalogued - consists of 2 plans of Burslem cemetery, 1911 and 1924)
Accession Number: SD 1503 (uncatalogued - consists of abstract of accounts for the corporation of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, 1921, 1923, 1930 and 1931)
Accession Number: SD 1507 (uncatalogued - consists of the first minute book of Stoke-on-Trent borough, 1910)
Accession Number: SD 1534 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1552 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1599 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1622 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1632 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1657 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1666 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1672 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1673 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1688 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1696 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1739 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1780 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1835 (uncatalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1880 (catalogued)
Accession Number: SD 1940 (catalogued)
Accession Number SD 1950 (uncatalogued - consists of booklet entitled 'Sense of time and place: an inter-generational reminiscence project organised by Stoke-on-Trent Libraries with Wedgwood Memorial College'. With children from Sutherland Primary School visiting Blurton High School).
Accession Number SD 1952 (uncatalogued - consists of photographs of Stoke-on-Trent relating to road improvement schemes, c1970s-1980s)
Accession Number SD 1956 (uncatalogued - consists of papers relating to electricity works, mainly in Hanley, early 20th cent)
Accession Number SD 1959 (uncatalogued - consists of miscellaneous council records as follows: documents and plans relating to the Berryhill rights of way application by the British Coal Corporation, 1991; Housing Committee report giving list of persons accepted as tenants of corporation houses and points scheme governing the selection of tenants, 1952; map showing suggestion for the central re-planning of Longton, produced by the Longton Traders' Association, nd; Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Stoke-on-Trent Extension) Act, 1921; Potteries Federation Act, 1908)
Accession Number SD 1963 (uncatalogued - consists of material relating to library services in Stoke-on-Trent, including correspondence relating to centenary of Tunstall Library in 1985, library use statistics, 1970s, and notes on the hospital library service, late 20th cent)
Accession Number SD 1975 (uncatalogued - consists of civil defence records including Civil Defence Division personnel cards and printed handbooks, c1950s-1990s)
Accession Number SD 1994 (uncatalogued - consists of archaeological and historic buildings survey photographs of Stafford Colliery, nd [20th cent])
Accession Number SD 2008 (uncatalogued - consists of County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent rate estimates, 1913-1914, 1915-1916, 1919-1920 and 1920-1921)
Accession Number SD 2009 (uncatalogued - consists of land availability survey maps, 1969-1991, and paperwork relating to land availability, 1990s. Maps show land available for housing and industry, allotment gardens, boundaries, swimming pool catchment areas etc. With North Staffordshire statistics for UK ceramic goods industry, 1980s and related research, 1960s-1990s)
Accession Number SD 2013 (uncatalogued - consists of Healthy Cities Project records, 1987-1989)
Accession Number SD 2015 (uncatalogued - consists of documents relating to the setting up of Stoke-on-Trent City Archives, including assessment of archives held at Hanley Library, 1995-1996)
Accession Number SD 2016 (uncatalogued - consists of Fenton Library centenary scrap book, 2006. Scrap book includes news cuttings, photographs, and memories from staff and library users)
Accession Number SD 2017 (uncatalogued - consists of Meir Library records, 1954-2003, including issue books, library users' memories of Meir, braille application form, plans for Meir Youth Café and correspondence concerning disprution caused to library services by the construction of the A50 Blythe Bridge to Queensway)
Accession Number SD 2025 (uncatalogued - consists of school health service reports, 1936-1959 (with gaps), and indexed minutes of the Libraries, Museums and Information Committee, 1969-1974, Children's Committee, 1968-1971 and Welfare Services, 1968-1971)
Accession Number SD 2026 (uncatalogued - consists of Stoke-on-Trent City Council signed minutes, 1993-2002)
Accession Number SD 2027 (catalogued)
Accession Number SD 2030 (uncatalogued - consists of plans submitted to the council's Department of Planning and Architecture as part of planning applications, 1964-1987; all but one date from 1987. Rough list available on request.)
Accession Number SD 2031 (uncatalogued - consists of plans of libraries in Stoke-on-Trent, 1930s-2000s, plan of Northwood Sports Centre (Stadium), 2002; plans to accompany the Stoke-on-Trent Order, 1964, OS maps showing land use and development, 1937, pre-1965 boundaries map and several copies of ward and boundaries map, 1903, showing borough and parish boundaries, churchyards and burial grounds, board schools, voluntary schools and buildings erected since 1898)
Accession Number SD 2039 (Local Government Collection - currently catalogued with local studies references; consists of city council publications, yearbooks etc. Also one box of uncatalogued library reports, catalogues and issuing statistics, 1886-1971)
Accession Number SD 2041 (uncatalogued - consists of documents regarding provision for 'mental defectives', 1920s-1930s; Longton Market stall licences, 1960s-1970s; attendance at committee meetings book, 1940s; Local Government Board Inquiry regarding application by the Corporation to borrow £60,000 for electricity supply, 1911)
Accession Number SD 2051 (uncatalogued - consists of town hall lettings registers for Hanley, 1930s-1980s, and Burslem, 1939-1944, teachers' salaries registers, early 20th cent, and treasurer's sinking fund, c1915-1945)
Accession Number SD 2056 (uncatalogued - consists of slides of Meir Branch Library and PTC libraries, 20th cent)
Accession Number SD 2058 (uncatalogued - consists of photographs of Longton Town Hall taken in May 1984)
Accession Number SD 2059 (uncatalogued - consists of slides of studies and areas in Stoke-on-Trent relating to Planning Department activities, late 20th cent, list with collection)
Any questions concerning uncatalogued Accessions should be directed to the Archive Services Manager, Stoke-on-Trent City Archives, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3DW |