Longton, Staffordshire
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Longton is one of the six towns which amalgamated to form the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910, along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Burslem and Stoke-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, England.
Image: Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton geograph.org.uk 4274278
Image: Railway bridge and public house, Longton geograph.org.uk 4435750
Image: The Strand, May Day Bank Holiday afternoon geograph.org.uk 4948539
Image: St James and St John church, Longton (2)
Federation of Stoke-on-Trent
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The federation of Stoke-on-Trent was the 1910 amalgamation of the six Staffordshire Potteries towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton into the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. The federation was one of the largest mergers of local authorities, involving the greatest number of previously separate urban authorities, to take place in England between the nineteenth century and the 1960s. The 1910 federation was the culmination of a process of urban growth and municipal change that started in the early 19th century.
Burslem Town Hall, scene of many ballots and debates during the Federation process
Lord Cromer, chairman of the House of Lords select committee