Hanley

Hanley
Central Hanley.
Hanley shown within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ880480
Unitary authority	Stoke-on-Trent
Ceremonial county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	STOKE-ON-TRENT
Postcode district	ST1
Dialling code	01782
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	Staffordshire
UK Parliament	Stoke-on-Trent North
European Parliament	West Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Staffordshire

Coordinates: 53°′″N 2°′″W / 53.0246, -2.1729

Hanley, Staffordshire, England, is one of the six major towns that joined together to form Stoke-on-Trent in 1910. Hanley was the only one of the six towns to be a county borough before the merger; its status was transferred to the enlarged borough. Hanley was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1857 and became a county borough with the passage of the Local Government Act 1888.

Hanley was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on July 13, 1864.

It now acts as the city's main city-centre and shopping centre, and also offers major cultural facilities such as The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (a world class ceramics collection, and restored Spitfire), the Victoria Hall, the Regent Theatre, BBC Radio Stoke's Open Centre and studios, and the various Cultural Quarter facilities and cafes.

The 1986 Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival led to the reclamation of large areas of land south of the city centre area, and the city's shopping area has effectively grown southwards from Hanley to include Festival Park.

Hanley in old Trade Journals

"HANLEY a large modern town and chapelry, in the parish of Stoke, is about two miles east by north of Newcastle [under-Lyme], and ranks next to Burslem in size, extent and opulence. The town is in an elevated situation, and the streets forming which are irregular, but many of the houses are well built. The chapelry contained, in 1821, 5,622 inhabitants."

1828 journal

"Hanley, the most populous town in North Staffordshire, is generally described as the capital of the Potteries, a title to which it has certainly the greatest pretensions; ........ it has during the present century made such strides in the art, as to overtake and pass all competitors. At the census of 1891, the population of the municipal borough reached the total of 54,846; and such is the prosperity of the district, that at the present time this number has been very largely increased.

1893 journal

• More on Hanley in Trade Journals

Activities

• Hanley now has a Skate Plaza fitted into Central Forrest Park.
• Also a large playground for the young of the city.

Night Life

Hanley is the centre of North Staffordshire's night time entertainment. The array of bars and clubs is growing rapidly. People from all over the county of Staffordshire and South Cheshire come to Hanley to experience the night life.

• Satchmo's
• Liquid Night Club
• Jumpin' Jaks
• The Sugarmill
• Walkabout
• The Fat Cats Cafe Bar
• Aruba
• Chicago Rock Cafe
• Zenn
• Flares
• Yates
• Flacketts
• The Tube (Closed down July 2007)
• Base
• Harleys
• The Reginald Mitchell (Weatherspoons)
• ST1
• Hed Kandi
• JFK
• The Underground
• Bar 360
• Touch

Many others

There is a growing gay scene in Hanley too

• The Club
• The Three Tuns
• Pink
• Number 3 (Formerly Monqiues)
• Blush Cabaret Bar
• 007
• Chaplins (Is now closed down)
• Galaxy/G&Y (youth gay club)

Also Hanley is a derived Irish last name with a coat of arms meaning champion in Gaelic

External links

• Hanley - one of the Six Towns
• The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Hanley
• Use interactive maps to find historic photographs and objects of old Hanley
• The centre of house music in Stoke-on-Trent, Satchmos Glass St Hanley

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