Moorlands Old Times

A regular blog that uses the history of the communities of the Staffordshire Moorlands to illustrate the new

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Hares and "Unquakerly" behaviour at Swythamley

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The Hare ambled nonchalantly off as the car passed. It was sitting beside the back road between Monyash and Bakewell as we approached. I...
Monday, 26 November 2012

North Staffs and the American Civil War

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John Clews was born in Burslem in 1839 and left as an 8 year old with his father to be part of the scheme to set up a community in Wisco...
Sunday, 25 November 2012

Colonel Olcott and Ceylon

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Bill Cawley on a Leek connection to Sri Lanka and bloody business now.     The American Colonel Henry Olcott is the only speaker, as...
Friday, 23 November 2012

Leek and the Haiti connection

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I saw a puppet Baron Samedi the voodoo deity in a garden in Leek. His black top hat was covered frost. He did not look happy. The figu...
Thursday, 22 November 2012

Russian War hero visits Alton Towers 1839

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Gallitzin- a battle hardened visitor comes to Alton Towers It is gratifying to note that corrections in spectacular mistakes ...

Rousseau- father of the French Revolution and the Moorlands

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Jean Jacques Rousseau, political theorist, father of the French Revolution,  creator of the first autobiography and pioneer conservati...
Thursday, 15 November 2012

Leek Soldier in the Crimea 1854-5 Part 2

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The 20 th Regiment of Foot was involved in one of the major battles of the campaign at Inkerman when they were part of the Second Divi...
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