Hanley

For the town or former electoral district located in Saskatchewan, Canada, see Hanley, Saskatchewan.

Hanley, Staffordshire, England, is one of the six major towns that joined together to form Stoke-on-Trent in 1910. Hanley was the only one of the six towns to be a county borough before the merger; its status was transferred to the enlarged borough. Hanley was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1857 and became a county borough with the passage of the Local Government Act 1888.

Hanley was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on July 13, 1864.

It now acts as the city\'s main city-centre and shopping centre, and also offers major cultural facilities such as The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (a world class ceramics collection, and restored Spitfire), the Victoria Hall, the Regent Theatre, BBC Radio Stoke\'s Open Centre and studios, and the various Cultural Quarter facilities and cafes.

The 1986 Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival led to the reclamation of large areas of land south of the city centre area, and the city\'s shopping area has effectively grown southwards from Hanley to include Festival Park.

Hanley in old Trade Journals

"HANLEY a large modern town and chapelry, in the parish of Stoke, is about two miles east by north of Newcastle [under-Lyme], and ranks next to Burslem in size, extent and opulence. The town is in an elevated situation, and the streets forming which are irregular, but many of the houses are well built. The chapelry contained, in 1821, 5,622 inhabitants."

1828 journal

"Hanley, the most populous town in North Staffordshire, is generally described as the capital of the Potteries, a title to which it has certainly the greatest pretensions; ........ it has during the present century made such strides in the art, as to overtake and pass all competitors. At the census of 1891, the population of the municipal borough reached the total of 54,846; and such is the prosperity of the district, that at the present time this number has been very largely increased.

1893 journal

• More on Hanley in Trade Journals

External links

• Hanley - one of the Six Towns
• The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Hanley
• Use interactive maps to find historic photographs and objects of old Hanley
• The centre of house music in Stoke-on-Trent, Satchmos Glass St Hanley

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