Fenton Through Time (Staffordshire) by Mervyn Edwards

78 in stock

239mm x 301mm x 7mm

Pages: 96

Fenton is the GÇÿforgotten townGÇÖ in the novels of Hanley-born author Arnold Bennett. He chose to write of the Five Towns, deliberately omitting Fenton, which at the time of his writing was only an urban district. He argued that GÇÿfiveGÇÖ GÇô with its open vowel GÇô suited the broad tongue of the Potteries people better than GÇÿsixGÇÖ. Fenton has never really forgiven him GÇô but in truth, its battle to forge an identity of its own has been ongoing.Historically, it consisted of a number of scattered settlements radiating from that section of the old turnpike road between Stoke and Longton. Most people passed straight through it. However, the enterprise of pottery manufacturers and the prevalence of local collieries established Fenton as a town of grit and graft. Though not always a pretty place, there is no better town than Fenton to study the history of the potteries.