There's plenty of satisfaction in testing your knowledge of local history – and perhaps learning something you didn't know – with a weekly quiz compiled by John Abberley.

1. Who composed the slogan "Not a minute on the day, not a penny off the pay" and when was it heard in North Staffordshire?

2. What major change was adopted by the former PMT company in 1968 which affected the daily working practice of its bus crews?

3. Which breakaway religious denomination was formed by North Staffordshire evangelists Hugh Bourne and William Clowes in the early 19th century?

4. What was the special announcement made by King George V in a speech at Stoke Town Hall during a royal visit in June 1925?

5. Which Victorian song made the Potteries music hall star Gertie Gitana famous at the age of 16?

6. Which oddly-named village in the Staffordshire Moorlands once had a reputation for making counterfeit money?

7. Who was the first leader of the resident band at the Crystal Ballroom, Newcastle, when it opened in 1958?

8. Jodrell Bank radio telescope, near Congleton, first achieved international fame in the 1950s by tracking which space rocket?

9. Which former independent bus company introduced London Transport double deckers on its routes from Hanley in the late 1950s?

10. How did Stoke City come to play Manchester United seven times in the 1971-72 season?

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUIZ

1. Tesco briefly occupied the site of the early 19th-century Castle Hotel at Newcastle after it was demolished in 1969.

2. When he died in 1963, Burslem pottery manufacturer W G Barratt left behind more than 100 bungalows and flats built with his own money for elderly people.

3. When a disastrous fire struck the Theatre Royal, Hanley, in June 1949, the famous Sadler's Wells ballet company were playing there and lost all their costumes.

4. Besides being a youth club leader at Longton, Ray Arundel was an amateur weather forecaster who supplied the Sentinel with daily bulletins for nearly 40 years.

5. In his novel about a London hotel called The Regent, Arnold Bennett re-introduced Denry Machin, hero of his Five Towns novel The Card.

6. Wilmot Martin, of Hixon, near Stafford, impersonated the music hall star Sir Harry Lauder and was known as Staffordshire's Harry Lauder.

7. Before contesting the Stoke and Longton seat for his New Party in 1931, Sir Oswald Mosley was Labour MP for Smethwick, which was then in Staffordshire.

8. An RAF auxiliary squadron operated No 3509 fighter control unit at the former Trentham Institute alongside the A34 until 1957.

9. Stoke City's cup-tie with Tottenham Hotspur was brought to a halt in January 1976 when the roof of the Butler Street Stand collapsed.

10. Former Port Vale player Bill McGarry, pictured above, replaced his old Potteries teammate Ronnie Allen as manager of Wolves in 1968.