What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Longport Station Known as Shawport Station in the Five Towns novels of Amold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
Longport Station, originally named Shawport Station, is a fictional location in Arnold Bennett's Five Towns novels, representing the industrial heartland of England and offering insights into early 20th-century life.
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