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Put your local history knowledge to the test with this weekly nostalgia quiz.
1. What links the cricketers Gary Sobers and Jim Laker? 2. Why should the people of the Potteries remember Stoke shopkeeper Len Godwin, pictured, with gratitude? 3. Which former Hanley pub was the first to be run by Stoke City and England footballer Neil Franklin? 4. How is Ernest Beard best remembered by the radio listeners of Stoke-on-Trent? 5. Why was speedway rider Dave Anderson referred to as 'the stoic of Stoke' in 1948? 6. Which tragic event happened in Gower Street, Newcastle, on June 26, 1940? 7. Which theme park ride was the first to be opened at Alton Towers? 8. Which early champion of the Potteries youth club movement became Lord Mayor in 1954? 9. What was the name of the Hanley theatre which was burned down in 1932 a few months after being converted into a cinema? 10. When did the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway run for the last time? 5.Speedway rider Dave Anderson was called of Stoke winning all his five races at Sun Street Stadium on the day his first wife died in 1948. 6.On June 26, 1940, a child evacuee was killed at a house in Gower Street, Newcastle, during the first German air raid of the war on North Staffordshire. 7.The Corkscrew was built in 1979 and opened in 1980. At that time the park was advertised as home that but stately 8.Annie Barker brought her Christian outlook to all aspects of her work and will perhaps be best remembered as WRVS organiser, chairman of the old Stoke-on-Trent Hospital Management Committee and early champion of the Potteries youth club movement. 9.The Grand Theatre in Trinity Street, Hanley, was burned down in 1932 soon after being converted into a cinema. The Odeon Cinema was built on the site. 10.The Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway ran for the last time in 1934. The service had been opened in 1904 2.Stoke shopkeeper Len Godwin founded Stoke-on-Trent wheels service. 3.The first pub run by Stoke City and England footballer Neil Franklin was the Blue Bell in Hanley. 4.In 1968 he was the ideal man for the job when the newly-opened Radio Stokewas looking for someone to provide a weekly talk about the local cinema. In reviewing the films, he developed a vinegary radio voice which probably upset the cinema managers, but made good listening.See the full content of this document
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