Which? Who? What? John Abberley invites you to test your knowledge of local history with his weekly quiz.

1: What was being advertised on leaflets dropped from aircraft in the 1930s on behalf of George Barber, a Potteries pioneer in one branch of public entertainment?

2: Why does 90 Hope Street, Hanley, have a place in English literary history?

3: What led to the death of canal builder James Brindley at his home, Turnhurst Hall, Newchapel, in 1772?

4: Which former Hanley store was built more than a century ago on the site of a pub called the Roebuck Inn?

5: Can you name the noted 19th-century landscape artist who was born in Hanley and spent in his early life in Stone?

6: How did Thomas Wedgwood, son of the eminent potter Josiah, claim a place in history himself as the so-called 'father' of a developing 19th-century science?

7: When was coal and ironstone first mined at Tunstall and Shelton? Was it the 13th, 15th or 17th century?

8: When the Fascist leader Oswald Mosley contested the Longton and Stoke parliamentary seat in 1931, where did he finish in the poll and how many votes did he attract?

9: What kind of exotic animals were released into the wild in the early 1940s by Sir Philip Brocklehurst, of Swythamley, near Leek?

10: In 1967 three Stoke City players took part in an international match between England and Wales. Who were they?

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUIZ

1: Samuel Taylor's chain works at Ford Green made the anchor for the ill-fated liner Titanic.

2: When 100,000 people converged on Mow Cop for an open-air meeting in May 1907, they were celebrating the centenary of Primitive Methodism.

3: The leading 19th-century figure in artistic design who collaborated with Leek dyer Sir Joshua Wardle was William Morris, founder of the arts and crafts movement.

4: When John Golding won the Newcastle parliamentary seat in 1969, the Conservative candidate Nicholas Winterton was in second place.

5: Barnum's Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show both set up winter quarters on a site off Garner Street, Cliff Vale.

6: Arena Theatre presented a season of plays at Longton Town Hall in 1950 to fill the gap while the Theatre Royal was being rebuilt following a disastrous fire in 1949.

7: General Henry William Paget, of Beaudesert, near Stafford, was second in command to the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Paget lost a leg after being shot, but continued his military career.

8: The Coronation Street star who appeared in pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Hanley, in 1939 was Betty Driver, who played Bet Turpin, above.

9: In 1929 Arnold Bennett wrote the screen play for a silent film called Piccadilly, starring Anna May Wong.

10: When Ken Higgs played for England against the West Indies at the Oval in 1976, he and his partner John Snow put on a record 128 for the last wicket.