 Minton Archive Name Index, 1860 - 1946
Within the Minton archive held at Stoke on Trent City Archives are a number of addresses marking important events for the Minton family and the company, such as a family member's coming of age or their entering into the firm.
In these addresses the employees of the company were listed. The collection also contains apprentice registers where the names of Minton apprentices, and their parent or guardian, were entered.
It is from these records that this name index is built. The index contains around 6,900 names and is another excellent resource for family historians. The Archive Service is grateful to the large number of volunteers who have generously given of their time in helping to create these resources.
 Flooding at Newport Road and Bridge Street, Stafford, February 1946 (Image courtesy of Staffordshire Record Office and Peter Rogers)
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In October the Archives and Heritage Service hosted the 'Our County, Our Climate' study day in partnership with Liverpool University. The event showcased the research of the team at Liverpool who have been exploring archives to tell the historic story of extreme weather and climate change through letters, reports, diaries, maps and even leases of mills and water courses.
The study day was a celebration of this work. Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool Neil MacDonald and Dr Alice Harvey-Fishenden gave an overview of the research project. We were also joined by Dr Alex Buchanan Co-Director of the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies and Chair of the Forum for Archives and Records Management in Education and Research.
As part of the project members of the public were invited to work with a local artist, a poet and a writer to create personal responses to their experiences of weather. Poet Mel Wardle-Woodend presented work from the project, including readings from the completed book 'Flood and Drought Poetry: Experiences of weather extremes in Staffordshire'. In addition, 3 films exploring the Washlands in Burton-on-Trent were shown. These feature storyteller Maria Whatton sharing stories and tales developed through conversations with workshop participants. Click on the button below to watch the films on our YouTube channel.
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