1. HUGH BOURNE 1772-1852, carpenter, Primitive Methodist preacher. Unpublished autobiography, texts A,B & C written c. 1844, 1845,1850: life to 1811 only. Typescript copies of mss. in H(anley) R(eference) L(ibrary). Extracts in J.T.Wilkinson, Hugh Bourne, 1952. 2. SAMUEL TAYLOR born c. 1810, Hanley potter, designer, commercial traveller (incl. to Russia 1859). Records of an Active Life 1886: Life to 1860. Mechanics’ Institute, Anti-Corn Law League, Sentinel co-founder. Penny readings etc. 90 pp. HRL 3. THOMAS DUNNING 1813-1894, Nantwich shoemaker, newsagent, trade unionist and Chartist. “Reminiscences” unfinished, only to 1846. Published Trans.Lancs & Ches. Antiq. Soc. 1947; David Vincent (ed) Testaments of Radicalism, 1977. Written c. 1890 4. EMANUEL LOVEKIN 1820-1905, Shropshire-born mining butty and Chartist, moved to Tunstall 1843 and thereafter lived mainly in N.Staffs. and became a colliery manager. 7000 word account of his life written 1895, on Extract (about half) in John Burnett (ed.) Useful Toil, 1974. Ms. in Brunel Univ. Library. 5. CHARLES SHAW 1832-1906, Tunstall & Burslem child potter, later cotton mill owner and New Connexion Methodist minister. Newspaper articles for Sentinel 1892-3 expanded as When I Was a Child, 1903. Covers years to 1853. 6. JOHN FINNEY born 1838, potter, Etruria. Sixty Years’ Recollections of an Etruscan, 1902 39pp. HRL Also informative on Hanley and Shelton. Moved to Stoke & Penkhull. Especially interesting on the Volunteer Movement and popular leisure. 7. THOMAS HAWLEY 1842-1928. Potter, shopkeeper & Unitarian, Longton. Sketches of Pottery Life and Character in the Forties and Fifties, 1908, republ. 1979. 8. WILLIAM SCARRATT born 1840s. Author of Old Times in the Potteries, 1906, republ. 1969. Articles on Tunstall (his home town), Burslem, Hanley and Shelton. Limited autobiographical content. 9. GEORGE H. BARBER 1860-1946. Farm worker, pitboy, chemical worker, local preacher, cinema proprietor, councillor. Tunstall etc. a) Small Beginnings various editions, 1913-1934 b) From Workhouse to Lord Mayor, 1937. 10. TOM MULLINS c. 1863-1950s. Farm worker, Leek area, Moorlands, Oral memories written down by J.H.Ingram, 1941. Extract in Useful Toil (v. Item 4). Original in Brunel University Library. Extract covers years to 1902. 11. WILL BARNETT born 1869. Potter, collier, apprentice jockey. The Life Story of Will Barnett, 1910, 35 pp. HRL. Drinker, gambler, wife-beater etc. Burslem and Smallthorne. Converted to Primitive Methodism 1905. ?Ghosted. 12. FANNY DEAKIN 1883-1968. Communist councillor, Silverdale. Archive in Newcastle Library includes rambling autobiography, ms., notebook, 68 pp., written 1966-7. Used by Joyce Holliday, Silverdale People, 1996. 13. FREDERICK PARKIN born 1884. Potter, initially in Derbyshire – came to Potteries 1905. Photocopy of ms. “Autobiografy (sic) of a Pottery Trade Unionist”, HRL 30 pp. Union activist. President of Potters’ Union c. 1912-1914. Unemployed between wars. Main focus on work and TUism. Written late 1940s/early 1950s ? 14. ALBERT GOODWIN born 1890. Potter, Caverswall/ East Vale/Longton. Autobiography written 1961 for adult ed, class. Extract in John Burnett ed. Destiny Obscure, 1982 entitled “Life of ‘A Potter’” deals with his grandparents, parents and birth. (Later active TUist & Asst Sec., Nat.Soc. of Pottery Workers, 1947) Original in Brunel Univ. Library. 15. JACK BRADDOCK born 1893, Hanley. Childhood and Youth in the Potteries included in joint autobiography with Bessie Braddock, The Braddocks, 1963.Not in local libraries. Details in Burnett, Vincent, Mayall, The Autobiography of the Working Class, Vol.2, 1987. 16. ARNOLD WAIN 1894-1976. Potter, dentist, local preacher (C of E), councillor, Stoke. “One Square Mile” to c. 1961-2. 170,000 words approx. Keele Univ. Library. v. also 1974 interview in Gordon Elliott, Potters, 2004. 17. HORACE BARKS 1895-1983. Railwayman, WWI soldier, councillor. Ipstones and Smallthorne. Fragments of Autobiography, 1986 and also “The Military Experience of Horace Barks in World War One”, Staffs. Studies, 1988. Both taped reminiscences. 18. ERNALD JAMES born c. 1895-1900? Unforgettable Countryfolk: Midlands Reminiscences, 1946. Son of a miner, local preacher, then workhouse master in Cheadle, Author became a teacher. Country and community life in and around Cheadle and Biddulph c. 1900-1930s. 19. G. BEDSON born c. 1900-1910. The Notorious Poacher: Memoirs of an Old Poacher, 1981. No family details, but a practical, realistic account of a poacher’s life in Staffs. 1920s –1940s and beyond, throughout Staffs, but mainly on Staffs/Shropshire border. 20. JOHN HOWELL born 1904. Silverdale: A Phoenix Village WEA pamphlet c. 1975. Memories of life in Silverdale c. 1914-1930, drawing on his father’s memories back to 1870s, and contrasted with 1970s. 20 pp. 21. HAROLD BROWN 1906-1993. Most Splendid of Men, 1981. Subtitle: Life in a Mining Community, 1917-1925. Author, a miner’s son, worked in Silverdale Pit 1920-1925. 22. GERTIE MELLOR born 1906. Gertie’s Story: Memoirs of a Moorland Octogenarian, 1994. Oral history recorded in 1992-3.: a rural life story of the daughter, then wife, of small Moorland farmers near Longnor. In Leek library. 23. T.A.WESTON 1909-1987 Nipper 1991. Autobiography written in third person. Life story of an “unrespectable” working class man: born in Cheadle, school in Potteries, miner’s son: truant, approved school, farm labourer, miner, army, transport worker etc. Left North Staffs. c. 1945. HRL 24. ARTHUR MELLOR 1911-1989. Longnor quarryman and councillor (No relation of no. 22) a) A Longnor Childhood, 1987 – mixture of third person and oral recordings b) “Now All You Buggers with Clogs On”: A Longnor Life. 1992 - oral recordings with editorial introduction. 25. ARNOLD MACHIN 1911-1999. Born Oakhill, son of pottery modeller, raised in Trent Vale, apprentice potter at Minton’s, then to Stoke School of Art until 1933. Became sculptor and designer. Later lived in the Villas and near Eccleshall. Artist of An Icon (The Queen’s head on stamps), 2002, a full story of his life. 26. ELIZABETH FANSHAWE born 1912. Railwayman’s daughter, raised in Penkhull, shop assistant. a) Penkhull Memories, 1983, an account of her life to c. 1930. b) “Memoirs or This Is My Life”, a full typescript autobiography of her life and travels after she left Penkhull until her return to Penkhull c. 1978, written c. 1980-81. 27. MARJORIE PLANT born c. 1914 a) Honey or Brine 1990. Childhood memories to c. 1930. Lived mainly in Mount Pleasant, Fenton. Personal and family emphasis. b) My Home ….Stoke-on-Trent, 1993. Second booklet focussing mainly on 1930s to 1950s. Both in HRL. 28. FLORENCE CHETWIN born 1916. Working-class? Father a publican, inter alia. “Childhood Reflections” – memories of a Milton childhood in the 1920s and 1930s. Written late 1970s. Many photos. Part of Milton Memories, 1999. 29. HAROLD PALMER born 1917, Burslem, moved to Stoke, Fenton, Meir, school in Longton before moving to Blackpool in 1930. Not a Sparrow Falls, 1988, pp 1-116 and 121-123 on his Potteries childhood. Newcastle Library. 30. FRED LEIGH 1922-2001. Born in Hanley, miner 1936-1942. Left Potteries and returned in 60s. Sentinel Street, 1988, is an evocation of the Potteries in the 20s and 30s, “based on fact”. His other books include The Potteries at War, 1989, and Mining Memories, 1992. 31. LEN BARNETT born 1925. Burslem and Middleport till 1942. Later emigrated to Canada. Burslem Saturday 1985, largely a book of poems inspired by the scenes of his youth, with “olde worlde” drawings by Anthony Foster, is aimed at the nostalgia market, but includes some passages of prose reminiscences. 32.ARTHUR BERRY 1925-1994, bricklayer’s son who became painter, playwright and art teacher. Autobiography A Three and Sevenpence Halfpenny Man, 1986, set largely in Smallthorne and Burslem. 33. REG HARVEY born 1925, Silverdale, miner 1939, engineering apprentice till 1945, engineer, taxi driver, teacher, entrepreneur, emigrated to Canada 1975: all this with copious reflections on his life and times in Where have all the years gone?, 2003. 34. PHILIP OAKES born 1928, raised as an orphan near Burslem, 1936-9 sent to Royal Orphanage School, Wolverhampton: From Middle England: A Memory of the 1930s, 1980. Followed by Dwellers All in Time and Space: A Memory of the 1940s, 1982, and At The Jazz Band Ball : A Memory of the 1950s, 1983 (both set outside the Potteries). The memoirs of a novelist and poet. 35. ROY WHITFIELD born 1928 Longton. Electrician, machine maintenance man and toolmaker in a potbank, later pottery manager. His life story to the 1970s, with sexual anecdotes: Back Alley, Neck End, 1998. 36. PAUL JOHNSON born 1928. The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries, 2004. The odd one out. Not working-class (father was Head of Burslem Art School), but an interesting complement to other books. Johnson lived in Tunstall, and went to school at St. Dominic’s, Hartshill and St Joseph’s, Trent Vale. 37. JACK SIMCOCK born 1929. Biddulph collier’s son, draughtsman, art school, became painter and poet, moved to Mow Cop. Simcock, Mow Cop, 1975. 38. JOYCE JORDAN born 1932, near Eccleshall. An Extraordinary Mix, 1992, tells how a single mother became a nurse and qualified bricklayer in the 70s. Newc.Lib. 39. ALAN GIBSON born 1938. Bittersweet: Cheddleton Memories, 2000, tells his life story as a paper mill amd mental hospital worker. With one chapter by his wife, Nurse VERA GIBSON. Leek Lib. 40. BILL RIDGWAY born 1940. Potteries Lad, 2004. Author evacuee from London, at school at Tunstall and Chell, became a teacher. Cyclist, trainspotter, car enthusiast. Family originally Tunstall potters. Miscellaneous articles on his childhood and youth. 41, MARGARET REYNOLDS born 1943. Daughter of Florence Chetwin (28). “Before The Swinging Sixties”, the memories of a Milton childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, is the second half of Milton Memories, 1999. Appendix Two Railwaymen’s Journals 42. ERNEST CARTWRIGHT 35 volumes, mss, unpublished. 1909-1935, 1940-1942. Largely comments on politics and public affairs. 43. THOMAS WRIGHT Journals 1907-1948, unpublished mss. Both located at Wedgwood Memorial College, Barlaston.