page_title: Norton le Moors
section_title: Norton Gateway Memorial
hierarchical_section_title: Norton le Moors / Norton Gateway Memorial
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial gateway in Norton le Moors, Stoke-on-Trent
context_page_description: The ecclesiastical parish of Norton le Moors is located in the north-east of the city of Stoke-On-Trent, in the county of Staffordshire. The majority of the parish is in the city however some lies in the Staffordshire Moorlands district. Approximately 3.4 miles north of Hanley, one of six major towns that joined together to form the city of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910. Norton le Moors borders Ball Green in the north, Stockton Brook in the east, Milton in the south, and Bradeley in the west, making it one of a number of small villages in the Stoke area.
context_section_description: The "Gateway of Norton le Moors", on the corner of Ford Green Road and Knypersley Road, is dedicated to the men, women and children who worked in the mining and ceramics industries. It was opened by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Jean Edwards, on 29 September 2006. Three coal wagons are placed nearby. The memorial is situated opposite the Norton Arms, where the inquiry into the explosion at Chatterley Whitfield Colliery in 1881 was held.
  The gateway bears a plaque in recognition of Walter Sylvester, the local inventor of a device for safely removing pit props in mines.
caption: The Norton Gateway Memorial
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