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Waterloo Road, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 2EH

Image The snooker club was one of a number built nationwide by Willie Holt, from Burnley, a manufacturer of snooker and billiards equipment in 1913. Originally there were fourteen tables though this has now been reduced to provide a bar and TV lounge. For more history see http://fredhughesblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/one-of-my-favourite-heritage-and-historic-places/

The snooker club was one of a number built nationwide by Willie Holt, from Burnley, a manufacturer of snooker and billiards equipment in 1913. Originally there were fourteen tables though this has now been reduced to provide a bar and TV lounge. For more history see http://fredhughesblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/one-of-my-favourite-heritage-and-historic-places/

This is a former pottery and seems to be defying gravity. The current street view shows that the white part of the building has been demolished. Sites like this give the 'potteries' character but they are inexorably diminishing. Update November 2016 I have been informed this potbank was built in 1880 for Midwinter Pottery. A section of bottle oven footing survives in the yard. Midwinter Pottery subsequently moved to Burslem but that works has now been demolished. Andrew Johnson has supplied the following information about the white (or blue and white) building - The white and blue building has been demolished this was formerly called The venue, later renamed Ebony and then the Summerhouse Club. The club was the first place of its kind in Stoke On Trent especially for people who loved reggae and soul music. There are now plans for the rehabilitation of the surviving buildings (as of 2016).

From this position you would hardly know that practically the entire site has been converted to piles of broken brick and cleared land.

This church (built in 1905) carries a bust of William Woodall (1832-1901) with the inscription "WOODALL MEMORIAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH" William Woodall was manager of the Burslem Gas Company, a senior partner in the pottery form of James MacIntyre and chairman of the Sneyd Colliery Co. Woodall became the secretary of the Wedgwood Memorial Institute Committee. He was Liberal MP for Stoke-upon-Trent in 1880 and for Hanley in 1885,86,92,95.

Seen from the corner of Nile Street and Zion Street, a derelict Royal Doulton factory building. There used to be other buildings of Royal Doulton in the empty space just behind the white gate and fence.

Three of the 46 bottle ovens left in 1988.