Memory Lane quiz

HERE'S another chance to test your knowledge of local history with our weekly quiz compiled by John Abberley.

1. Which international air race was won three times by Reginald Mitchell's planes before he designed the Spitfire?

2. What past institution do you associate with a piece of land at London Road, Trent Vale, called the Spittals?

3. After Federation of the six towns in 1910, how long was it before city status was conferred on Stoke-on-Trent?

4. Where in Staffordshire did the industrial pioneer and inventor Richard Arkwright build a cotton mill in 1782?

5. On which titled lady did the Five Towns novelist Arnold Bennett model his character Interfering Iris?

6. In which year was the loyal and ancient borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme granted its first market charter?

7. After which 18th century naval battle was Admiral John Jervis from Stone awarded an earldom?

8. Which 17th century mayor of Congleton signed the death warrant of King Charles I?

9. Can you name the Stoke family who formed a female football team which won the women's FA Cup and remained unbeaten for five years?

10. Who was the French champion beaten by the Potteries boxer Tommy Harrison when he won the European bantamweight title in Hanley in 1921?

ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUIZ

1. The Longton pianist who broadcast many times on BBC national radio and in the 1950s had his own programme called Pianissimo was Jackman Davis.

2. The Hanley store built on the site of the 19th century Roebuck Inn was Bratt and Dyke's, on the corner of Stafford Street and Trinity Street.

3. The late newspaper tycoon who joined the North Staffs Regiment in 1943 after escaping from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia was Robert Maxwell.

4. The Last of the Radicals was the title of a biography of Jos (later Lord) Wedgwood, Newcastle's long-serving MP who died in 1943.

5. What was then the deepest pitshaft in Europe was sunk in 1961 at Wolstanton Colliery, pictured above.

6. The seven Potteries cinemas which closed in the 1960s were the Capitol and Palace in Hanley, the Hippodrome and Danilo in Stoke, the Palace and Coliseum in Burslem, and the Empire in Longton.

7. The former Keele University professor who was appointed Secretary General of the Arts Council in 1974 and later knighted was Sir Roy Shaw.

8. Redhurst Crossing, Beeston Tor and Sparrowlee were all stations on the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway, which closed in 1934.

9. Sir Joseph Lamb, who died in 1949, was MP for Stone for 23 years.

10. When Port Vale defeated Sunderland in the FA Cup in 1936, the Vale team included Harry Griffiths, a constable in Stoke-on-Trent City Police.