An attempt to repair the chimes of the old ice cream van leads to a visit from a dairy person from another dimension. Councillor Cowdrey sees an opportunity for world domination - or at least his very ...

Sonia has to make an audition tape to enter a competition to be a children's TV presenter. Straightforward? Not in Bottom Knocker Street!

Barbara Demorest hit bottom after being diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago. The diagnosis itself wasn’t the bottom for the Bellingham woman, nor was the mastectomy. Surgery complications that ...

The undoubted importance of, if somewhat lower skilled, work of the saggar makers bottom knocker, with its origins, presumably more from the time of the industrial revolution, may well be of less ...

A pots about to be fired were put in a case - or sagger - to stop them being scorched and ruined. As saggers were used often they were checked for damage by "knocking" the bottom of the sagger with a ...

The Burslem-based business has created the Saggar Maker’s Bottom Knocker beer to support the effort to land the accolade. Brewers say the beer – which boasts a name that nods to Stoke-on-Trent’s ...

A The explanation given by Viv Edwards is not quite correct (July 30). My father was one of the last sagger-makers in the 50s. He made the sagger - a container used in the process of making pottery.