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[northstaffstv]

Environment Agency to host event on new flood scheme for Stoke

The £9.5 million flood risk management scheme will better protect 333 homes and businesses from flooding and help regenerate the area and create new jobs. There will be an opportunity to find out more about the scheme at a drop-in event on 13 July between 3pm and 7pm being held in the Factory Floor suite at the Potbank on Elenora Street where Environment Agency officers will be on hand to provide information about the scheme and answer questions. The Fowlea Brook, is a six-kilometre tributary of the River Trent that runs through the heart of Stoke from north of Longport meeting the Trent between the town centre and Fenton. The works will focus on a 500m stretch of the watercourse between the Shelton Old Road and the Civic Centre, making it more resilient to flooding. Preparation work for the main construction works has already begun with vegetation being cleared to make way for construction traffic. As part of the scheme, the Environment Agency will replant five trees for every one removed within the working area. Construction work on this complex urban scheme is expected to start in October and will take approximately two years to complete. Environment Agency Flood Risk Team Leader for the West Midlands, Mark Swain, said: “While properties in the area have thankfully not flooded since 1997, there is a high risk of flash flooding and water levels can increase by more than a meter in 15 minutes, particularly during summer thunderstorms as we saw in July 2021.” “This scheme will help to better protect the area from the devastating impact of flooding and make it more resilient to effects of climate change. It will also enable the area to be regenerated and help to create up to 570 jobs.” “We’re looking forward to welcoming people to the drop-in event in July where we can answer their questions about the scheme.” Councillor Duncan Walker, Cabinet Member for Planning, Climate Change and Regeneration at Stoke-on-Trent City Council added: “This is a highly complex project and we fully support the essential work being undertaken by the Environment Agency to repair these water courses and protect hundreds of homes and businesses from the threat of flooding in the future. It will also enable regeneration sites such as Spode Works, securing the land and buildings for future use bringing new homes, businesses and jobs. “The drop-in event is a great opportunity for residents and businesses to find out more about the works taking place as well as the benefits for the area.” The scheme will have wide ranging benefits to the local community, with 214 residential properties and 119 non-residential properties being better protected as a result of the new defences. This equates to £62 million in direct damages which are avoided. As well as the protection to properties, the Environment Agency is improving in-channel habitat and removing a weir that will unlock six-kilometers of river for fish migration from the Trent to the headwaters of the Fowlea Brook. The Fowlea Brook scheme is part of the Environment Agency’s investment of £5.2 billion by 2027 in 2,000 new flood and coastal defences to better protect 336,000 properties across England. The investment is one of the ways that the Environment Agency is responding to the impacts of the climate emergency in the UK which is resulting in more extreme weather and heavy rain increasing the likelihood of flooding. Make sure you know your flood risk by going the GOV.UK website or search ‘know my flood risk’ to sign up for Environment Agency flood warnings, receive information on the risk in your area and what to do in a flood: https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/. Read the full article

[outthere1]

One of the historic, abandoned and listed former Falcon Works Potbanks in Stoke on Trent, sadly left to rot by it's owner.

[allfiredupproject]

A poem called "Clay is"

This piece of writing was originally commissioned by and displayed at the British Ceramics Biennial 2019, in partnership with Stoke-on-Trent City Council. It is a prose poem meditating on the variety of clays found just under the surface in parts of Staffordshire, and their geological link to other clays found around the globe. 

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Clay is.

Clay in the ground a buried babe in a coiling womb. Clay in the ground nestled in shards, cracks, seams stretched with the moles, fingers in the earth hidden in the spots of no light. Clay is centuries buried with the world turning, with the clover dripping globs of overnight rain, the water wedding topsoil, wedding the feathers of curious crows gone to ground to scoop weevils and worms, the water dripping through dull dirt powder down to settle in the clay’s loamy sack. Clay is a cold moon shone on the side of a mountain, light a singing echo of stars, stars beaming down on cracked fields where the clay rises, folds away in layers at the push of a quarry blade. Clay is churned to slip and slurry, rocky, bony mousse whisked and sieved and slushed until it pours, until runs and fires and seals as hard stone. Clay came before. Lizard scale, limb of a prancing deer snatching flies from fur, bones from the man buried in the woods of his elder gods, the stones of his cairn scarred with wind and crumbling, dusting themselves in the heavy soil. Clay was there. Clay saw them all. Clay waited and slept while they decayed into atoms, became earth, became clay. Clay is body emulated, the old spellwork of the world, fire, water, red matter passing through dig and lift and heat until shaped. Clay is a cartography, a map of Toscana, Etruria, Morena, Sandersville, Stoke, Neicun, and more, more markers of earth’s slow progress sinking cloud from sky to bedrock. Clay is memory, held in the palm it cools and heats and mirrors, all knowledge of its journey contained in a lump. Clay is memory, it remembers the shovel slackening its grip on the mountainside, the wooden handle pocked with years, the man’s hand a glove of sweat and dirt and grip, and clay remembers how that hand plucked, how it scooped and rushed the clay from its bed. Clay remembers the dead buried in boggy graves, bodies sealed, the water preserver moistening their skin. Clay remembers the animals buried under leaves and twigs and ants foraging there in the boneyard of the soil. Clay remembers the woodland fires, the trees uprooted, roots pulling soil in their limbs, unhinging clay from its solid seat, vines lifting home and limb with its evacuation. Clay remembers foundations set in cities, its concrete cousin hardening, how in Rome they crafted it from the ash of burning mountains, how in Spode they slipped the cracked shards of glazed pots into the floors for ease, for strength, for symbol. Clay is quick to remember its own body stuck to the arms of those in mines and potbanks, quick to remember its new glaze skin staining the hands of painters in workshops ripe with the smell of heat. Clay stands suspended now, buried still now, warm now, shown under the amber light of gallery bulbs. Clay holds itself in embrace, cracks in the pass of time, held in fixed animation as bowls and figures and blocks and panels leaking water to the sun. Clay stands, ferrous and calcined, doorway to the firings of the old world and the hot kiln of now. Clay forms its own body, becomes human. Clay walks and pauses and breathes moisture in and out of air, it becomes living, a vessel, an osmosis, a golem knowing what it is to breathe. Clay walks on wheels, in particles, and passes through us, we eat clay and clay lumps like melted sugar in our stomach. Clay lingers, mountain in the desert. Clay waits to be woken, to shape, be shaped.

[moneyhealthfinance-blog]

Analytics project shows promise for resolving pot-banking issues

Analytics project shows promise for resolving pot-banking issues

Marijuana habits are pretty predictable.

Poorer young people tend to smoke pot, while older consumers tend to use concentrated products like vape pens and edibles.

While that conclusion may not be shocking, it’s based on reams of proprietary data examined by NCS Analytics, a Denver-based firm that is building a data portal between banks, two states and marijuana-related businesses (MRBs) that…

[ourstaffordshirenews]

Staffordshire Restaurant Of The Month For April 2022 

The Quarter On Piccadilly. 65 Piccadilly, Hanley.  ST1 1HR. & The Quarter At Potbank. Elenora Street, Stoke. ST4 1QD. Facebook @thequarterhanley & @thequarterpotbank These two sister restaurants have been setting the Foodie Scene on fire with great reviews for several years. Although each has their own unique menus designed for the areas that they serve they both serve up quality locally…

[christinemallb]

Four drawings from last year's national urban sketchers meet up. June 20019. Potbanks and Arnold Bennett

[dry-valleys]

“ For this the architecture of the Five Towns is an architecture of ovens and      chimneys; for this its atmosphere is as black as its mud; for this it burns and smokes all night, so that Longshaw has been compared to hell” Arnold Bennett on the industry of Longton, which he called Longshaw in his fiction, 1908.

First trip in almost three years to (1-3) Florence Colliery, which like Sneyd Hill is a former slagheap from a mine owned, like so much of the south of this city, by the Duke of Sutherland, whom we’ve met. (Florence was the 3rd Duke’s daughter and could boast of having a whole district named for her).

The fictional portrait of the Earls of Chell in Arnold Bennett may be slightly unfair but it’s true that their wealth was built by those working here or in one of the potbanks commemorated in the Gladstone Pottery Museum, an excellent museum located nearby.

Rising from the new houses, where it’s hard to imagine anyone making the traditional Longton statement that “it’s a fine day if you can see the other side of the road”, one sees a site that has been admirably cleaned up, but still takes pride in what it was and is, and then on to Cocknage (which is a natural hill).

Cocknage contains many council-run farms amid the inevitable barn conversions and detatched houses, showing the new prosperity (also seen in Florence) which saw a Conservative MP elected here for the first time in 2017; equally inevitably, the newly prosperous decided to seal their posession off and the fine wood at Cocknage can only be seen through a lens at (4-6), a sad loss for what was once a communal playground for urban children.

From here you can see sights such as Fen Park (7, with Mow Cop in the background), (8) thevery recently built Gilani Noor mosque- which I’d never even heard of before 2016- (9) Saint James the Less, Longton. (which I visited at Christmas 2017) and (10) in the distance, the city centre.

(1) from 1969. when it was still a working mine, (8) February 2017 and the rest yesterday.

Florence and Cocknage have among the best effort to reward ratios I’ve found anywhere, and while you can leave the hubbub of the city behind you can also gain a new perspective on it from up here.

[hotelsareamazing]

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Hotels in Stoke-On-Trent: https://bit.ly/2Z2S4Eq

North Stafford Hotel - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/britanniahotels.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Potbank - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/potbanksuites-aparthotel-spode-works.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Holiday Inn Stoke on Trent - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/holiday-inn-stoke-on-trent.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Borough Arms Hotel - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/borough-arms-hotel.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Holiday Inn Express Stoke-On-Trent - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/stoke-on-trentexpressbyholidayinn.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Lymedale Suites Stoke on Trent - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/lymedale-suites.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

The Upper House - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/the-upper-house.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Manor House Hotel, Alsager - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/manor-house.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Tollgate Hotel & Leisure - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/tollgate-leisure.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Best Western Plus Stoke-on-Trent Moat House - https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/best-western-plus-stokeon-trent-city-centre.en-gb.html?aid=1378504

Music: https://www.bensound.com . . . . . . . . . . Afrikaans: Hotelle in Stoke-On-Trent

Arabic: فنادق في ستوك أون ترينت

Azerbaijani: Stok-On-Trentdəki otellər

Belarusian: Гатэлі ў Сток-он-Трэнт

Bulgarian: Хотели в Стоук Он Трент

Bengali: স্টোক-অন-ট্রেন্টে হোটেল

Bosnian: Hoteli u Stoke-On-Trentu

Catalan: Hotels a Stoke-On-Trent

Czech: Stoke-On-Trent levné ubytování

Welsh: Gwestai yn Stoke-On-Trent

Danish: Hoteller i Stoke-On-Trent

German: Hotels in Stoke-On-Trent

Greek: Ξενοδοχεία σε Stoke-On-Trent

Spanish: Hoteles en Stoke-On-Trent

Estonian: Hotellid Stoke-On-Trent linnas

Persian: هتل در Stoke-On-Trent

Finnish: Hotels in Stoke-On-Trent

French: Hôtels à Stoke-On-Trent

Irish: Óstáin i Stoke-On-Trent

Hindi: स्टोक-ऑन-ट्रेंट में होटल

Croatian: Hoteli u Stoke-On-Trentu

Hungarian: Szállások itt: Stoke-On-Trent

Armenian: Հյուրանոցներ Stoke-On-Trent- ում

Indonesian: Penawaran terbaik: Hotel di Stoke-On-Trent

Icelandic: Hótel - Stoke-On-Trent

Italian: Alberghi a Stoke-On-Trent

Hebrew: מלונות בסטוק-און-טרנט

Japanese: ストークオントレントのホテル

Javanese: Hotel ing Stoke-On-Trent

Georgian: სასტუმროები სტოკ-ონ-ტრენტში

Kazakh: Сток-он-Тренттегі қонақ үйлер

Korean: 스토크 온 트렌트 호텔

Lithuanian: Viešbučiai Stoke-On-Trent

Latvian: Viesnīcas pilsētā Stoke-On-Trent

Macedonian: Хотели во Стоук-он Трент

Malay: Hotel di Stoke-On-Trent

Maltese: Lukandi f'Stoke-On-Trent

Nepali: Stoke-on-Trent मा होटल

Dutch: Hotels in Stoke-On-Trent

Norwegian: Hotell i Stoke-On-Trent

Punjabi: ਸਟੋਕ-ਆਨ-ਟ੍ਰੇਂਟ ਵਿੱਚ ਹੋਟਲ

Polish: Hotele w Stoke-On-Trent

Portuguese: Hotéis em Stoke-On-Trent

Romanian: Hoteluri în Stoke-On-Trent

Russian: Отели в Сток-он-Трент

Slovak: Stoke-On-Trent ubytovanie lacno

Slovenian: Hoteli v Stoke-On-Trentu

Somali: Hoteellada ku yaal Stoke-On-Trent

Albanian: Hotele në Stoke-On-Trent

Serbian: Хотели у Стоке-Он-Трент

Swedish: Hotell i Stoke-On-Trent

Swahili: Hoteli katika Stoke-On-Trent

Tamil: ஸ்டோக்-ஆன்-ட்ரெண்டில் உள்ள ஹோட்டல்கள்

Thai: โรงแรมใน Stoke-On-Trent

Filipino: Mga hotel sa Stoke-On-Trent

Turkish: Stoke-On-Trent şehri Otelleri

Ukrainian: Готелі в Сток-он-Трент

Urdu: اسٹوک آن ٹرینٹ میں ہوٹل

Uzbek: Stok-On-Trentdagi mehmonxonalar

Vietnamese: Khách sạn ở Stoke-On-Trent

Chinese: 特伦特河畔斯托克酒店

[heytheremrmary]

Hey there @dcmsgovuk! I’m backing the bid because #StokeOnTrent is the perfect balance of respect for potbank heritage and motivation to embrace the future of tech. We are home to some of the nation’s finest craftsmen and artists. We are home to one of the country’s best independent music venues... We are #stokeontrentcityofculture2021! #sot2021, you know it makes sense, duck... Stoke-on-Trent for #CityofCulture2021 (at Flawless Tattoo & Permanent Make Up)

[beckahigham]

Today the judges are visiting Stoke to help make their decision about the 2021 City of Culture Bid 🙌 I will be drawing some Stoke inspired illustrations to support the bid and sharing them across all my social media with #sot2021 and @dcmsgovuk , get involved and share your pics and opinion 👍 Stoke's culture is what made me an artist, having a childhood visiting the different potbank's and museums! 🏺 . . . #stokeontrent #creative #staffsuni #staffordshire #art #illustration #life #sketchbook #instadaily #cityofculture #2021 #hanley #thepotteries #cute #ceramic #art #drawing #character #hi #craft #childhood (at Stoke-on-Trent)

[claudalice-blog]

Such an impressive poppies display at #middleportpottery Defiantly worth a visit . . . . . #poppies #ww1 #pottery #potbank #stoke #sot #stokeontrent #staffordshire #photooftheday #photography #photographer #dramaticsky #industry #vsco #instagood (at Middleport Pottery)

[outthere1]

One of the historic, abandoned and listed former Falcon Works Potbanks in Stoke on Trent, sadly left to rot by it's owner.

[allfiredupproject]

Some incredible images found in the Historic England archive of people working in the Staffordshire potbanks, all photographs copyright of Historic England

[moneyhealthfinance-blog]

Analytics project shows promise for resolving pot-banking issues

Analytics project shows promise for resolving pot-banking issues

Marijuana habits are pretty predictable.

Poorer young people tend to smoke pot, while older consumers tend to use concentrated products like vape pens and edibles.

While that conclusion may not be shocking, it’s based on reams of proprietary data examined by NCS Analytics, a Denver-based firm that is building a data portal between banks, two states and marijuana-related businesses (MRBs) that…

[ourstaffordshirenews]

Staffordshire Restaurant Of The Month For July

Staffordshire Restaurant Of The Month For July

The Quarter @Potbank. Spode Works, Elenora Street, Stoke. ST4 1QD. Known for fantastic food and great live music events The Quarter @Potbank has a great reputation locally as a must-go place for foodies and music lovers alike to visit. Set in the grounds of the magnificent Spode Works the venue has a feeling of a modern bespoke restaurant with quirky nods to the heritage and history of its…

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