A Royal Visit to Crewe 24th September

David Cooke kicked off our new season by a talk on the visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Crewe and North Staffordshire in 1913. David described the visit of the royal couple and in particular the industries they visited. It is salutary to realise how nearly all of that local manufacturing, especially the major railway engine works at Crewe and the extensive factories in the Potteries, has disappeared in the last century or perhaps even in our lifetimes.