Portal:Staffordshire/Did you know

...the Home Office initially refused to grant Stoke-on-Trent city status, but this decision was over turned when a direct approach was made to George V?
...that from the 1550s (reign of Mary I) until 1888, Lichfield was a separate county from the rest of Staffordshire?
...that Fascist MP Oswald Mosley (pictured)
Oswald Mosley
lived for many years in the now demolished Apedale Hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme?
...that the Diocese of Lichfield was once one of the largest in medieval England and was divided into five archdeaconries?
...that according to historian Rev. H B Kendall, five Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor in Staffordshire?
... that George Speake sees an "eyeless, open-jawed serpent" on the Staffordshire helmet?
... that Winton Square in Stoke-on-Trent has been described as the best example of neo-Jacobean architecture in Staffordshire?
... that in medieval Tutbury, Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull that, if caught, could be eaten or exchanged for forty pennies?
... that visitors can walk through Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire without any barriers between them and the 140 Barbary macaques that live there?
... that British police officer Suzette Davenport was responsible for crime in Staffordshire and intelligence in the West Midlands?
... that the Four Counties Ring is a canal ring linking the English counties of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, and the West Midlands?
... that the Staffordshire County League (South) was originally formed as the Walsall & District Junior League after a meeting of football club representatives at the People's Coffee House in Walsall?
... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy?
...that according to historian Rev. H B Kendall, five Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor in Staffordshire?
... that Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley, Staffordshire, now redundant, has been known as the "Cathedral of the Potteries"?
... that the windmill in Werrington was built to grind corn but later converted to grind coal to make briquettes?

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