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 reign of Queen Mary until 1888, Lichfield was a separate county from the rest of Staffordshire?
 * ...that Fascist MP Oswald Mosley (pictured) Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Bt by Glyn Warren Philpot.jpg 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?