Links

Most of the Bott family, men women and children, worked in the Staffordshire pottery industry. A pottery manufactory was known as a potbank.

To help understand the industry of making pots these links to blogs by Terry Woolliscroft will be useful:

PotbankDictionary 

The Potteries Bottle Oven


Gladstone Pottery Museum

Twyfords



Other Useful Links and Books:

Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon


British Forces in Palestine
Map of Palestine c1945 


BT Archives

Imperial War Museum

Longton: 'A History of Longton' by J. H. Y. Briggs, published by the Department of Adult Education, University of Keele, Staffordshire, 1982, ISBN 903160 12 9

This is an invaluable book about the town of Longton - Dad's home town. Even more so when your father has annotated it with details of all the places connected with him and his family. Nice one Dad!
Front cover
Endpapers annotated by Rowland Bott



National Army Museum - Palestine

National Army Museum - Royal Signals History

Below are 2 invaluable links which will take you to websites by Rob Clark which will help with research into soldiers serving in World War I and World War II:

Researching the Lives and Service Records of First World War Soldiers 
Fantastic resource, guidance and loads of links to helpful sites for research on this subject. Also offers a research service. See link below for researching World War II.


Researching the Lives and Records of WW2 Soldiers
Fantastic resource, guidance and loads of links to helpful sites for research on this subject. Also offers a research service. See link above for researching World War I.


Royal Corps of Signals active from 1920 to present

Royal Signals Museum

'The Royal Signals are responsible for installing, operating, maintaining and running telecommunications equipment and information systems.'  


World War II Interviews by James Holland