Captain Smith's childhood

[Stanley C Jenkins]

There seems to be an assumption that the Smiths were a very grand family, which was not in fact the case. Captain Smith's family seem to have been the epitome of the poor, but hard-working Protestant working class, while his daughter, who married well, nevertheless spent her later years in a humble cottage in the predominantly working class village of Leafield, in Oxfordshire.

 

[Ernie Luck]

>>>There seems to be an assumption that the Smiths were a very grand family, which was not in fact the case.<<<

Quite so, Stanley, his father was a potter - no more than a labourer - as was his father before him. He never sought to hide his humble beginnings - a remarkable man.

Gary Cooper's new biography of Captain Smith will hopefully be available later this year. A significant update on his previous one, 'The Man who sank the Titanic'.

 

[Mark Baber]

the Potteries have long been a poor area and horses were a rarity.

Potteries Bottle Oven Day

Honor the last time the traditional Potteries Bottle Oven was fired by Gladstone Pottery Museum in the UK’s pottery history heaven, Stoke-on-Trent.

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