On This Day October to December
OCTOBER
Oct 1 - John Cornfield Jnr, Sedgley poet, born 1820
Oct 1 - Stafford fire 1887
Oct 1 - Earliest Aviation Week in Britain ends at Burton upon Trent 1910
Oct 1 - Brownhills’ Grove Colliery explosion 1930
Oct 1 - Tipton made a municipal borough 1938
Oct 1 - Work officially begins to reclaim land for Glebedale Park, Fenton, 1971
Oct 2 - John Wesley in Bilston 1745
Oct 2 - Workman falls to his death from St Mark’s tower, Pensnett, 1849
Oct 2 - First show of the Staffordshire Shire Horse Society, Stafford, 1891
Oct 2 - Karl Kramer, a German Mond Gas fitter, murders three people in bungled Kidsgrove house-break-in 1911
Oct 2 - M6’s Staffordshire Post House, Clayton, officially opens 1967
Oct 3 - Thomas Amphlett of Enville massacred by order of Cossim Ally Cawn in India 1763
Oct 3 - German bomb dropped on Beckminster Special School, Penn 1940
Oct 4 - Henry Siddons, actor, playwright, son of famous actress Sarah Siddons, born Wolverhampton 1774
Oct 4 - Eccleshall anti-enclosure riot 1796
Oct 4 - Hanley’s Victoria Hall concert hall officially opens 1888
Oct 4 - Brocton Hall fire 1939
Oct 5 - Stafford mini earthquake 1993
Oct 6 - Betley mini earthquake 1863
Oct 6 - Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out at Brookhay Farm, Whittington 1900
Oct 7 - Edward Wetenhall, bishop of several Irish Sees, born Lichfield 1636
Oct 7 - Silverdale Extension Railway closes completely 1967
Oct 8 - Serious coach accident at Tittensor 1799
Oct 8 - John Currie, Newcastle-under-Lyme artist, shoots dead his model, Dolly Henry, in London 1914
Oct 8 - Kangaroo escapes from Courtney Brocklehurst’s private zoo near the Roaches 1936
Oct 9 - John Wesley visits Penkridge 1745
Oct 9 - Stoke-upon-Trent railway station opens 1848
Oct 9 - Early bicycle fatality in Wolverhampton 1869
Oct 9 - John Harold Rhodes, Packmoor miner, earns VC and Croix de Guerre for storming an enemy pill box and captured nine prisoners single-handed 1917
Oct 10 - Walsall’s St Matthew’s church gas explosion 1847
Oct 10 - Ryecroft signalman killed and mutilated by trains passing over him on railway track 1922
Oct 10 - Longton’s Jollees night club opens 1973
Oct 11 - William Perry, bewitched ‘Boy of Bilston’ baptised 1607
Oct 11 - Thomas Harrison, Newcastle-under-Lyme parliamentarian commander, tried 1660
Oct 11 - Brazilian on coach journey shoots himself in Red Lion Inn lavatory, Leek, 1836
Oct 11 - Sister Dora statue in Walsall unveiled 1886
Oct 11 - Messrs Brown and Freers boiler explosion, Brockmoor, 1887
Oct 11 - Staffordshire Girl Guide movement founded 1917
Oct 11 - Robaston Farm Institute opens 1921
Oct 11 - Cheddleton Heath UFO sighting 1967
Oct 12 - Royalist who tried to bribe Rushall Hall garrison commander to surrender hung 1644
Oct 12 - Ingestre Hall fire 1882
Oct 12 - Stafford’s first flying display 1912
Oct 12 - National Armed Forces Memorial unveiled by Elizabeth II at National Memorial Arboretum 2007
Oct 13 - Thomas Harrison, Newcastle-under-Lyme parliamentarian commander, hung, drawn and quartered 1660
Oct 13 - North Staffords’ lose more than 500 men in the battle of Loos 1915
Oct 13 - Beaudesert Hall estate sale at Lichfield 1932
Oct 13 - Hanley Museum and Art Gallery opens 1956
Oct 14 - Richard the Merchant tombstone found at Lichfield Friary 1746
Oct 14 - Haden Hill grounds open to public 1922
Oct 14 - Hulton Abbey log boat found during excavations 1930
Oct 15 - Charles I and Princes Charles and James in Wolverhampton 1642
Oct 15 - Messrs Jones and Company’s Birchills Ironworks, Walsall, explosion 1875
Oct 15 - Strongford Sewage Treatment Works open 1936
Oct 15 - Clent UFO sighting 1978
Oct 16 - Leycett Colliery disaster 1883
Oct 16 - Mossfield Colliery disaster 1889
Oct 16 - First meet of the Staffordshire Beagles at Dunston Post Office, 1929
Oct 17 - Charles I stays in Wolverhampton 1642
Oct 18 - King John dies and his heart reputedly goes to Croxden Abbey 1216
Oct 18 - Stafford’s St George’s Mental Hospital opens 1818
Oct 18 - Walsall College of Technology opens 1962
Oct 18 - The Park View Centre, Brownhills, opens 2006
Oct 18 - Tamworth Nat West Bank robbery 2006
Oct 19 - Swynnerton Wednesday market charter granted 1306
Oct 19 - Rev Richard Thursfield, Wednesbury religious writer, born 1827
Oct 19 - Five Ways Colliery disaster, Cradley Heath, 1844
Oct 19 - Charlotte Rhead, Burslem ceramic designer, born 1885
Oct 19 - Dudley to Cradley Heath tram officially opens 1900
Oct 19 - Caldonlow helicopter crash 1996
Oct 20 - Dieulacres Abbey surrenders 1538
Oct 20 - John Ball, Whitmore vicar and ‘the Presbyterian’s Champion’ dies 1639
Oct 20 - Andrew Bromwich, Oscott RC priest involved in Popish Plot, dies 1702/3
Oct 20 - John Wesley mobbed in Wednesbury and Walsall 1743
Oct 20 - Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, born 1867
Oct 20 - Dr Johnson’s birthplace sold to the man who gifted it to the public 1887
Oct 20 - Garden of Remembrance, Lichfield, opens 1920
Oct 20 - Mow Cop aircraft crash 1998
Oct 21 - First standards for Staffordshire Yeomanry presented, Stafford Market Place 1795
Oct 21 - Hanley Economic Building Society established 1854
Oct 21 - Hawksmoor Park gates officially opened in memory of Charles JB Masefield 1933
Oct 21- Ranton UFO sighting 1954
Oct 21 - Staffordshire Record Office extension and refurnishment opens 1996
Oct 22 - First mention of Kinver Grammar School 1571
Oct 22 - Denstone College foundation stone laid 1868
Oct 22 - Flash and Weston Coney UFO sightings 1967
Oct 23 - Burton upon Trent market hall opens 1893
Oct 23 - Apedale Hall demolished 1934
Oct 23 - West Bromwich’s Christ Church destroyed by fire 1979
Oct 24 - ‘Five Shilling Murder’ at Ashflats 1852
Oct 24 - Cat Inn, Enville, gets a Sunday licence 2004
Oct 25 - David Bailey, Sedgley poet and phonetist, born 1834
Oct 25 - Aneurin Bevin arrives for a conference in Stoke-on-Trent at RAF Wheaton Aston 1946
Oct 26 - Sandfields pumping station officially opens 1858
Oct 26 - George Lovatt, ‘Fat Man’ of Brierley Hill, born 1869
Oct 26 - Uttoxeter Cattle Market closes 2005
Oct 27 - Ellis Roberts, Burslem artist, born 1860
Oct 27 - William Adams, Tunstall pottery manufacturer, dies 1865
Oct 27 - Sandwell Park Colliery explosion 1894
Oct 27 - King’s Hill Park, Wednesbury, officially opens 1900
Oct 27 - Blithfield Reservoir officially opens 1953
Oct 28 - Sir Henry Rushbury, Harborne Royal Academican, born 1889
Oct 28 - Nancy Foster, Cannock poet, commits suicide in canal basin 1933
Oct 28 - First performance at Mitchell Memorial (Youth) Theatre, Hanley, 1957
Oct 28 - Elizabeth II at Keele University to celebrate its 50th anniversary 1999
Oct 28 - Josef Stawinoga, long-standing Wolverhampton Ring Road tramp, dies 2007
Oct 29 - William Salt who gives his name to the William Salt Library born 1809
Oct 29 - Harborne Blue Coat School moves to junction of Harborne Hill and Metchley Lane 1930
Oct 29 - Steelpark, Wednesfield, officially opens 1999
Oct 29 - World-record setting firework display at Alton Towers 1999
Oct 30 - Probable hoax message in a bottle found in the Tame at Comberford 1862
Oct 30 - Date of ‘The Wooing of Wednesbury, a political ballad by a rejected suitor’ 1868
Oct 30 - Colin Grazier, Two Gates sailor, retrieves vital information from sunk German U-boat 1942
Oct 31 - Ann Moore, Tutbury fasting woman, born 1761
Oct 31 - Cheddleton’s St Edward’s Mental Hospital foundation stone laid 1895
Oct 31 - Kingswinford & Wolverhampton Railway closes to passengers 1932
Oct 31 - Wellington bomber crashes at Amerton 1942
Oct 31 - Owners of Consall New Hall accidentally die of carbon-monoxide poisoning 1958
Oct 31 - Leek’s Smithfield Centre officially opens 1962
Oct 31 - Joules, Stone’s last brewery closes 1974
NOVEMBER
Nov 1 - Stafford to Radford wharf railroad opens 1805
Nov 1 - William Meath Baker, friend of Edward Elgar, born Hilderstone 1857
Nov 1 - Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway opens 1872
Nov 1 - Pottery Loop Railway (Hanley-Burslem) Line opens 1873
Nov 1 - Ashbourne Branch Railway closes to passengers 1954
Nov 1 - Mark Goldstraw, Cheddleton arsonist, found guilty of murder 2006
Nov 2 - Edward Bird, Wolverhampton artist, dies 1819
Nov 2 - Castle Inn fire, Tamworth, 1838
Nov 2 - Birmingham-Wolverhampton New Road officially opens 1927
Nov 2 - Bishop’s Wood C17 glass house discovered 1931
Nov 2 - Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh visit Wedgwood Factory 1955
Nov 2 - Black Country Ale Tairsters of West Bromwich begin their on-going pub-crawl 1984
Nov 2 - National Memorial Arboretum Millennium Chapel dedicated 2000
Nov 3 - Pirehill Savings’ Bank established 1818
Nov 4 - Wednesbury Art Gallery opens 1891
Nov 4 - FJ Cope lectures Old Stafford Society on the Devil at Brewood 1927
Nov 4 - Harborne Railway closes 1963
Nov 4 - Ladderedge UFO sighting 1967
Nov 5 - Edward II visits Newcastle-under-Lyme 1323
Nov 5 - Far Green Colliery disaster, Hanley, 1859
Nov 5 - Cheadle Town Hall officially opened 1894
Nov 5 - First traffic lights in Great Britain tried in Wolverhampton 1927
Nov 5 - First of the ‘model’ Dilhorne bonfire displays 1988
Nov 6 - Prince Regent visits Beaudesert Hall 1815
Nov 7 - Gunpowder plotters take refuge at Holbeche House, Himley, 1605
Nov 7 - Time capsule placed in Tamworth’s St Mary’s Bridge 1839
Nov 7 - William ‘Ginger’ Richardson of West Bromwich Albion scores four goals in five minutes at Upton Park 1931
Nov 8 - Eva Morris, one of the oldest people in the world in 2000, born Newcastle-under-Lyme 1885
Nov 8 - Largest pass-the-parcel game ever takes place at Alton Towers 1992
Nov 9 - Dr Johnson returns Lichfield cathedral Library books for the last time 1784
Nov 9 - World shorthand record broken at Walsall 1920
Nov 9 - Werrington UFO sighting 1967
Nov 10 - Samuel Pepys’ notes ‘the great Mr Swinfen’ of Swinfen in his diary 1662
Nov 10 - Wolverhampton Wanderers first general meeting, 1876
Nov 10 - Sgt Albert Edward Egerton, the Forsbrook VC, born Longton 1897
Nov 11 - Young Sir Clement Throckmorton, MP for Warwick, dies at Wolverhampton’s Deanery Hall 1663
Nov 11 - ‘The Wench is Dead’ about Palmer, the Rugeley poisoner, screened on TV 1998
Nov 12 - Duke of Hamilton of Sandon and Lord Mohun famously duel 1712
Nov 12 - Edward Wetenhall of Lichfield, bishop of several Irish Sees, dies 1713
Nov 12 - Adolphus Fielding murdered by his lodger at Alsager Bank 1845
Nov 12 - Strewsbury & Birmingham Railway opens 1849
Nov 12 - Rugeley Trent Valley station train collision 1905
Nov 12 - Last assize session in Shire Hall 1971
Nov 13 - Wolverhampton miners and ironworkers riots 1815
Nov 13 - 2-2-2 Lucifer engine breaks world speed record at Madeley Bank 1839
Nov 13 - First sod of the Trent Valley Railway cut 1845
Nov 14 - Burton Abbey surrenders 1539
Nov 14 - Coseley miners gather to support Wolverhampton rioters 1815
Nov 14 - Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Dudley Railway opens 1854
Nov 14 - Granite boulder erected on Spring Hill, Cannock Chase, 1954
Nov 14 - Dorothy Round, tennis star, dies Kinver 1982
Nov 15 - Stafford charter granted 1560
Nov 15 - Northern lights seen from Burton on Trent 1574
Nov 15 - Barlaston’s Madam’s Bridge blown up 1834
Nov 16 - Talke market charter granted 1252
Nov 16 - West Cannock Colliery explosion 1933
Nov 16 - Fawside Edge aircraft crash 1941
Nov 16 - Last freight train runs on the Cheadle Railway 1984
Nov 17 - Spitfire crashes at Upper Hulme 1940
Nov 17 - Brockmoor Primary School officially opened 1994
Nov 18 - Burton mini earthquake 1795
Nov 18 - Edward VII visits Needwood Forest and Ingestre 1907
Nov 18 - Queen Street Foundry explosion, Bilston, 1921
Nov 18 - Jack Baskeyfield, Stanfield VC, born 1922
Nov 18 - Birchenwood Colliery explosion 1925
Nov 19 - Richard Street South, West Bromwich, bombed 1940
Nov 19 - The Potteries Centre, Hanley, officially opens 1987
Nov 19 - Moor Street, Brierley Hill, UFO sighting 1987
Nov 20 -
Nov 21 - ‘Sidney’s Sovereign’ charity, Stafford, constituted 1857
Nov 21 - Edward VII visits Alton Towers 1907
Nov 22 - Wednesbury meteor sighting 1672
Nov 22 - Black Country pugilists fight the Battle of Kinver Edge 1836
Nov 22 - Black Lake Colliery disaster 1871
Nov 22 - Aircraft crashes at Hen Cloud on The Roaches 1942
Nov 23 - Leek Wednesday market charter granted 1207
Nov 23 - Henry III at Tutbury 1251
Nov 23 - Vagabond murders young woman on road at Hoar Cross 1874
Nov 23 - Edward VII entertained at the Shire Hall 1907
Nov 23 - David Lloyd George receives the freedom of Wolverhampton borough 1918
Nov 24 - Staffordshire County Cricket Club inaugural meeting 1871
Nov 24 - The Leek and District Advertiser founded 1911
Nov 24 - Standhills Colliery disaster 1933
Nov 24 - Plaque commemorating John Wilkinson’s blast furnace unveiled at Great Bridge 1956
Nov 24 - Restoration of Stafford High House officially completed 1987
Nov 25 - First person buried in St Leonard’s Bilston 1732
Nov 25 - Enville Hall fire 1904
Nov 25 - Bignall Hill Colliery explosion 1911
Nov 25 - Keele University Science Park officially opens 1987
Nov 25 - Sentinel House, Etruria, newspaper office officially opens 1987
Nov 26 - Harborne Railway closes to passengers 1934
Nov 26 - Couple hit by friendly fire in Waterloo Street, Burton on Trent 1944
Nov 26 - ‘Flat cap’ thief robs Staffordshire Building Society, Uttoxeter, 1996
Nov 27 - The Wednesbury wrought iron round elbow No. 2959 patented 1857
Nov 27 - Zeppelin raid over Wolstanton 1916
Nov 27 - John Harold Rhodes, Packmoor VC, wounded in action 1917
Nov 27 - Fauld crater explosion 1944
Nov 27 - Bishop Asbury’s Cottage at Newton opened to the public 1959
Nov 27 - Sir Stanley Matthews turns on the Christmas illuminations in Stone 1997
Nov 28 - 125 year old William Wakeley of Adbaston dies 1714
Nov 28 - In his offensive against Young Pretender Duke of Cumberland reaches Lichfield 1745
Nov 28 - Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visit Tamworth 1843
Nov 28 - Experimental balloon bomb discharger trials on Cannock Chase 1846
Nov 28 - Zeppelin raid over Tunstall 1916
Nov 28 - William Havergal Brian, Longton composer, dies 1972
Nov 29 - Rhoda Broughton of Broughton Hall, novelist, born 1840
Nov 29 - ‘Second battle of Wolverhampton’ a railway squabble between the S&BR and its rival LNWR over rights to Wolverhampton station 1851
Nov 29 - Duke of Kent and Princess Marina honeymoon at Himley Hall 1934
Nov 29 - Donna Buxton, 22, killed in unsolved car accident on Leek-Buxton road 1997
Nov 30 - Tean Tuesday market charter granted 1355
Nov 30 - Queen Victoria visits Wolverhampton 1866
Nov 30 - Sneyd’s first edition proof sheets of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary sold at Sotheby’s 1927
DECEMBER
Dec 1 - Act of Parliament passed initiating Wednesfield chapel 1741
Dec 1 - Rev Thomas Cotterill, hymn writer, born Cannock 1779
Dec 1 - Stafford connected to the Trent Valley Railway 1847
Dec 1 - Celebrated Scottish naturalist, Thomas Edwards, visits Yarlet Hall 1878
Dec 1 - RAF Stafford officially opened 1939
Dec 2 - Duke of Cumberland’s spy captured by Jacobites at Red Lion Inn, Talke, 1745
Dec 2 - William Adams, pottery manufacturer of Stoke-upon-Trent dies 1829
Dec 2 - Fanny Deakin, socialist political activist, born Silverdale 1883
Dec 3 - Duke of Cumberland digs cannon ramparts on Stonefield Common to intercept the Young Pretender 1745
Dec 3 - Northwood man falls down hole in St John Street, Hanley, and never found again 1903
Dec 3 - Cadbury Hall, amenity hall for Cadbury workers, Knighton, officially opened 1936
Dec 4 - Mary, Queen of Scots, moved to Chartley Old Hall 1585
Dec 4 - Mock sun seen at Clifton Campville 1680
Dec 4 - Young Pretender’s army passes through Bradnop and Blore 1745
Dec 5 - Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) plays golf at Little Aston 1932
Dec 5 - Bobby Thomson, brilliant fullback footballer, born Smethwick 1943
Dec 5 - England play Denmark at Molineux ground 1956
Dec 6 - Young Pretender’s army retreating from Derby rob Okeover church 1745
Dec 6 - First Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police Force, John Hayes Hatton appointed, 1842
Dec 6 - John Cornfield, ‘Coseley’s Poet’ drowns 1890
Dec 7 - Rev Thomas Moss, the Brierley Hill and Trentham curate poet, dies 1808
Dec 7 - Joseph Cook, Australian Prime Minster, born Silverdale 1860
Dec 7 - Lord Burton’s Daimler crashes into a dingle at Shobnall 1907
Dec 8 - Young Pretender’s army retreating from Derby leave Leek 1745
Dec 8 - Catharine Mewis, Barton-under-Needwood girl who could only see on Sundays, born 1802
Dec 8 - Duke of Wellington visits Teddesley Hall 1825
Dec 8 - PC Enoch Augustus Hooper stabbed to death in pursuit of villains in Willenhall 1865
Dec 8 - Colour Sgt Anthony Booth, the Brierley Hill V.C. dies 1899
Dec 8 - ‘Irish Mail’ train accident at Norton Bridge 1899
Dec 8 - Pat Collins, funfair proprietor and Walsall politician, dies 1943
Dec 9 - Duke of Cumberland reputedly hids from the Young Pretender in Cumberland House, Cheadle, 1745
Dec 9 - Holy Trinity, Wordsley, consecrated 1831
Dec 9 - Jeremy, nine year old grandson of 2nd Earl of Dudley killed in a cycling accident on Chelsea Embankment 1929
Dec 9 - St John the Evangelist, Essington, dedicated 1933
Dec 9 - M6 Toll Road opens 2003
Dec 10 - Edmund Genings, Lichfield-born Catholic convert priest beheaded 1591
Dec 10 - Central Library, Hanley officially opens 1970
Dec 10 - Quality Street Gang allegedly burgle Sir Stanley Clarke’s home The Knoll, Barton-under-Needwood 1997
Dec 11
Dec 12 - Samuel Johnson leaves Pembroke College, Oxford, and returns to Lichfield 1729
Dec 12 - John Davenport, potter of Longport, dies at Westwood Hall, Leek, 1848
Dec 12 - Duke of Kent and Princess Marina end the first part of their honeymoon at Himley Hall 1934
Dec 13 - Dr Samuel Johnson dies in London 1784
Dec 13 - Anti-Dissenter riot at Uttoxeter 1792
Dec 13 - George Cooper, Stone pugilist gypsy, beats Dan Donnelly at Kildare, Ireland, 1815
Dec 13 - Sandon Hall fire claiming the life of the granddaughter of Dudley Ryder 1847
Dec 13 - Talk o’ the’ Hill Colliery coal gas explosion 1866
Dec 13 - Harold Parry, poet who lost his life in WW1, born Bloxwich 1896
Dec 13 - Two young cousins killed by car at Chartley as they walked to buy a birthday card for their aunt 1986
Dec 14 - Uttoxeter Wednesday market charter granted 1251
Dec 14 - Great or Little Haywood Thursday market charter granted 1251
Dec 14 - Old Hednesford Colliery disaster 1911
Dec 15 - Gregory King, herald, born at Lichfield 1648
Dec 15 - Izaak Walton, fisherman and author, dies 1683
Dec 15 - Leek vicar’s wife traditionally slams the door in the Young Pretenders face, collapses, and dies of fright 1745
Dec 15 - Skeletons of nuns found at Blithford Priory 1795
Dec 15 - Wrottesley Hall fire 1897
Dec 16 - The boy William Bond falls through Burton church landing in front of the altar during Vespers and dies 1292
Dec 16 - Mary Evans strangled by her lover in a Ranton lane 1833
Dec 16 - Minnie Pit inrush of water 1909
Dec 16 - Lone bombing raid on Chesterton 1940
Dec 17 - First BBC TV programmes transmitted from Sutton Coldfield to North Staffordshire, 1949
Dec 18 - Stafford charter of incorporation granted 1550
Dec 18 - Joyce Lewis burnt for heresy in Lichfield Market Place 1557
Dec 18 - William Howe shoots Benjamin Robins, Dunsley Hall farmer, in Gibbet Wood 1812
Dec 18 - Pit ponies rescued from 22-day ordeal down Jamage Colliery 1911
Dec 18 - Last special train runs south of Oakamoor 1964
Dec 19 - Wightwick Manor given to the National Trust 1937
Dec 19 - Blakenhall Gardens estate high-rise flats opened in Wolverhampton 1967
Dec 20 - William Salt Library originally established in the Old Bank, Market Sq, Stafford, 1872
Dec 20 - Bird In Hand Inn brewery near Hilderstone closes 1927
Dec 21 - Lichfield made a county by charter 1553
Dec 21 - Lapley Hall parliamentary garrison taken by Royalists 1643
Dec 21 - 80th Regt of Foot (later 2nd Batt South Staffords) play leading role in Battle of Ferozeshah, Punjab, 1845
Dec 21 - Vernon Lee Walker of Pennfields, trader in the New Herbrides, murdered by natives on Pentecost Island 1887
Dec 21 - The Potteries Federation Bill becomes law, 1908
Dec 21 - Birmingham Northern Relief Road protesters evicted 1998
Dec 22 - Parliamentarian order to demolish Stafford Castle 1643
Dec 22 - Ann Spencer murdered in her cottage at Essington 1824
Dec 22 - Steam pumping at Hatton Pumping Station ceases 1979
Dec 23 - Stafford & Uttoxeter Railway opened 1867
Dec 23 - Leslie Green who murdered Maud Alice Wilshaw at Barlaston, hung 1952
Dec 24 - Lichfield Cathedral rededicated after restoration of the Civil War 1669
Dec 24 - Bignall Hill Colliery explosion 1874
Dec 24 - William Perry, The ‘Tipton Slasher’ dies in poverty 1880
Dec 25 - Tub of gunpowder explodes at Leek mercer’s house 1731
Dec 26 - Craven Kynnersley of Loxley Hall accidentally shoots himself dead whilst out hunting 1736
Dec 26 - George Butt, writer, born Lichfield 1741
Dec 26 - Richard Hale murderer of his illegitimate daughter Eliza Silleto at Daisy Bank, hung 1864
Dec 26 - Sydney Francis Barnes, Smethwick cricketeer, dies at Chadsmoor 1967
Dec 27 - Sir Hervey Bagot dies at Field Hall 1660
Dec 27 - Church rates in Tamworth abandoned 1867
Dec 27 - John Johnson Shaw, seismologist, born at Lower Gornal 1873
Dec 27 - Nine year old boy falls through ice covering Westport Lake, a second rescuer saves him and the first rescuer 1950
Dec 28 - Main assault of the Rabbit Riots on Cannock Chase 1753
Dec 28 - Gertie Gitana, music hall artist, born Longport 1887
Dec 29 - William Howard, Viscount Stafford, beheaded in the Popish Plot 1680
Dec 29 - Izaak Walton’s Cottage, Shallowford, passes to Stafford corporation 1719
Dec 29 - Vera Brittain, writer, born in Newcastle-under-Lyme 1893
Dec 29 - Cheadle Herald becomes Cheadle Herald, Tean News and General Advertiser 1895
Dec 30 - St Michael’s church, Stone, collapses 1749
Dec 30 - Rudyard Kipling, novelist whose name is from Rudyard Lake, born 1865
Dec 30 - Major Henry Elwell of Quarry Lodge, Lichfield, dies unexpectantly whilst attending the Quarter Sessions 1872
Dec 30 - Rocket Pit collapse, Bradley, Bilston, 1921
Dec 31 - Samuel Davies and Mrs Ann Turner marry at Wolstanton after three days courtship, and their combined ages amount to 140 years, 1811
Dec 31 - Major General W Reid Martin visiting Farley Hall accidentally shot dead on shooting party in Gibridding Wood 1892
Dec 31 - Anker and Tame both overflow and flood Tamworth 1900
Dec 31 - Last trams of Burton Corporation Tramways run 1929
Dec 31 - Pendeford airfield closes 1970
Dec 31 - Silverdale Colliery closes due to geological problems 1998
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