To help understand the industry of making pots these links to blogs by Terry Woolliscroft will be useful:
PotbankDictionary
The Potteries Bottle Oven
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Twyfords
Other Useful Links and Books:
Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon
British Forces in Palestine
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| Map of Palestine c1945 |
BT Archives
Imperial War Museum
Longton: 'A History of Longton' by J. H. Y. Briggs, published by the Department of Adult Education, University of Keele, Staffordshire, 1982, ISBN 903160 12 9
This is an invaluable book about the town of Longton - Dad's home town. Even more so when your father has annotated it with details of all the places connected with him and his family. Nice one Dad!
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| Front cover |
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| Endpapers annotated by Rowland Bott |
National Army Museum - Palestine
National Army Museum - Royal Signals History
Below are 2 invaluable links which will take you to websites by Rob Clark which will help with research into soldiers serving in World War I and World War II:
Researching the Lives and Service Records of First World War Soldiers
Fantastic resource, guidance and loads of links to helpful sites for research on this subject. Also offers a research service. See link below for researching World War II.
Researching the Lives and Records of WW2 Soldiers
Fantastic resource, guidance and loads of links to helpful sites for research on this subject. Also offers a research service. See link above for researching World War I.
Royal Corps of Signals active from 1920 to present
Royal Signals Museum
'The Royal Signals are responsible for installing, operating, maintaining and running telecommunications equipment and information systems.'
World War II Interviews by James Holland
