Disaster planning: North Staffs

What do we know? (continuation)

1.2 The site collectively recognised as a disaster area

⦿ Map showing existing built-up areas c.1965 – OS sheets out of copyright

As far as built physical environment goes (North Staffordshire—including the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyne) is a disaster area, largely unchanged and uncared for since the nineteenth century.

Price, 1966, ‘Potteries Thinkbelt’, p.484, Architectural Design [3]

Table 1 provides links to photographic evidence that the site was a disaster area.

Digitized Items For: Existing built-up areas in the early 1960s
T Tunstall [4]
B Burslem [5]
H Hanley (includes items from the 1970s) [6]
S Stoke (includes items from the 1970s) [7]
F Fenton [8]
L Longton [9]
N Newcastle [10]
Table 1: Photographic evidence – click hyperlinks (numbers of items bracketed)

Thus collectively we know:—

• … that in terms of buildings the part of North Staffordshire including the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyne was a disaster area.

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