Staffs Publishing: 4 books
Twelve Days of Christmas in North Staffordshire
Tales of a bygone age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A Collection of Short stories in North Staffordshire of a bygone age at the turn of the twentieth century. Each portraying what life was like at Christmas in that era. Short stories of hardship and poverty, yet sustained by their will to survive, able to smile at the adversity which bred the character...
Deeds Most Foul
Murders and Mutilations that occurred in North Staffordshire from 1880 to 1904
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Murders and Mutilations in North Staffordshire. Including accounts from Coroners courts. Chapters include true stories from Hanley, Biddulph, Dilhorne, Betley, Leigh (Uttoxeter) Stone etc.
by Fred Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A personal tribute to North Staffordshire Miners and their families with personal accounts of their lives at the turn of the 20th Century. Also contains historic records of mining accidents and family names of pit disasters in North Staffordshire.
It can be no coincidence that for the second...
by Fred Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
A book detailing Mines Rescue service in North Staffordshire along with stories based upon the authors experience of life in a mining family during the 1920's & 1930's in Hanley, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire. It also contains North Staffordshire Dialect speech for which Fred is famous.