Upcoming Events
2025
Mon Dec 15th: Arthur Berry's Centenary: A Special Year
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Dec 22nd: I'd Like to Teach the World to Laugh: A Nostalgic Look at Television Adverts
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
2026
Mon Jan 12th: The Potteries Laughter Makers: Comedians, Celebrities and Cartoonists
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Jan 19th: Secret Newcastle-under-Lyme
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Feb 2nd: Chips Ahoy!A Portrait of North Staffordshire Fish and Chip Shops
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Feb 16th: Buxton and Stoke, Fresh Air and Smoke: An Unlikely Connection
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Feb 23rd: Clubland Will Never Die! The North Staffordshire Workingmen's Clubs
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Mar 2nd: The Road to Glory: Stoke City and the League Cup, 1972
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Mar 16th: A History of J D Wetherspoon Pubs in North Staffordshire
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Mon Mar 30th: Stoke-on-Trent in the 1950s
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge Bar.
Previous Events in 2025
Mon Jan 27th: The Way We Wore: Dressing the Potteries (Talk - Mervyn's Monday)
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Feb 17th: Love and Sex in the Potteries
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Feb 24th: Newcastle Town Centre on Ten Buildings
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Mar 17th: The Lost Buildings of Burslem
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Mar 24th: Longton Shops and Shopping
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Apr 14th: Newcastilians at Play
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Apr 28th: Law and Order in the Potteries
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge..
Fri May 9th: Pottery, Poems and People: A Short History of Shelton
Talk at Shelton, St Mark's Church, Snow Hill
11am Start.
Mon May 19th: A Night at the Flicks - Cinema in the Potteries
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Wed May 21st: The Lost Pubs of Hanley
Talk at the Reginald Mitchell (Wetherspoon's pub) Hanley (Upstairs)
11am Start. Admission £5.00
Wed May 28th: A Walk Around Queens's Gardens, Newcastle
Meet at the Queen's Gardens, Newcastle.
1.30pm Start. Free Admission
For the Get Into Walking & Cycling Group
Mon Jun 16th: The National Garden Festival: From Inferno to Flowers
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Jun 23rd: The Joys of Community History
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Jul 14th: CW Brown: Pitman, Painter and Primitive
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Jul 28th: Stoke versus Lichfield: Claiming Captain Smith of the Titanic
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Sun Aug 10th: Smallthorne to Burslem (Walk)
Meet at the Ford Green Hall, ending at Moorland Inn, Burslem.
11am Start. Free Admission
In Conjunction with Barewall Gallery, Burslem & Berry 100
Mon Aug 11th: Fags for the Memory: The Demise of Cigarettes with Particular Reference to North Staffordshire
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Sun Aug 17th: Burslem to Middleport (Walk)
Meet at Barewall Gallery, Market Place, ending at Middleport Pottery.
11am Start. Free Admission
In Conjunction with Barewall Gallery, Burslem & Berry 100
Mon Aug 18th: A History of Shelton Bar
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Sat Aug 23rd: Middleport to Wolstanton (Walk)
Meet Middleport Pottery, ending at Wolstanton High St.
11am Start. Free Admission
In Conjunction with Barewall Gallery, Burslem & Berry 100
Mon Sep 8th: Cool Clear Water in the Potteries: Six Towns in Search of a Water Supply
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Sep 15th: Shops and Shopping in Burslem
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Wed Sep 17th: The Arnold Bennett Walk (Hanley)
In conjunction with the Dudson Centre and the Arnold Bennett Society.
Start time: 2 pm at the Dudson Centre, Hope Street, ending at the Bennett Statue, Bethesda Street.
Duration approx 60 minutes. Free admission, all welcome.
Walk is also on 24th Sep & 1st Oct
Mon Sep 22nd: From Billy Bunter to the Bash Street Kids: The Story of Kid's Comics
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Wed Sep 24th: The Arnold Bennett Walk (Hanley)
In conjunction with the Dudson Centre and the Arnold Bennett Society.
Start time: 2 pm at the Dudson Centre, Hope Street, ending at the Bennett Statue, Bethesda Street.
Duration approx 60 minutes. Free admission, all welcome.
Walk is also on 17th Sep & 1st Oct
Wed Oct 1st: The Arnold Bennett Walk (Hanley)
In conjunction with the Dudson Centre and the Arnold Bennett Society.
Start time: 2 pm at the Dudson Centre, Hope Street, ending at the Bennett Statue, Bethesda Street.
Duration approx 60 minutes. Free admission, all welcome.
Walk is also on 17th Sep & 24th Oct
Mon Oct 6th: The Deadly Rivalry: Stoke City and Port Vale
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Oct 20th: Fever, Filth and Fright: Disease in Old North Staffordshire
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Oct 27th: Public Houses in Etruria
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Nov 3rd: Fenton Through Time
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Nov 17th: Abbey Hulton: A Suburb of Stoke-on-Trent
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Nov 24th: The Dressed Wells of North Staffordshire: History in Bloom
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.
Mon Dec 1st: Putting the Wireless On: A Brief History of Radio Stoke
Mervyn's Mondays Talk at the Victoria Lounge.