Stoke-on-Trent is shit

[danny la rouge]

but never ventured into the town itself.

It’s actually six towns.

 

[editor]

To be fair you see the same sort of article in almost every local paper these days - it used to be people done for shoplifting and stuff, now it is this awful stuff.

Wonder what happened to chio though - he came to a Manchester meet about fifteen years ago I think.

Not a fan of Stoke and pass through it often - the station is a nice building, but never ventured into the town itself. It looks a bit depressing like many towns.

Oh I'm not saying that Stoke is any different, but it was a bloody depressing rollcall.

 

[killer b]

Seriously, look at these fucking pots.

 

[killer b]

Oh I'm not saying that Stoke is any different, but it was a bloody depressing rollcall.

It's just a slow news day easy clickbait story. Set the work experience kid to pull all the nonce stories from the last two years and bingo: a front page without having to leave your seat.

 

[danny la rouge]

Staffordshire Oatcakes

Oat cakes.

 

[killer b]

I did mean to eat an oat cake when I was there, but didn't have time in the end. So next time - Hopefully it doesn't suffer from the same issue as eccles which has no local eccles cake makers left at all.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Oh I'm not saying that Stoke is any different, but it was a bloody depressing rollcall.

Those stories are always grim - I avoid reading them.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It’s actually six towns.

If it is now a city presumably the town thing is in the past?

 

[danny la rouge]

If it is now a city presumably the town thing is in the past?

“I’m going up Hanley”. Nah. Still a thing.

I like the Potts. Regular visitor. Warm people.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

“I’m going up Hanley”. Nah. Still a thing.

Yeah, but it is legally still a thing? Cities were towns once, so it makes sense that they are no longer classified as such once they get a city charter - although locals will no doubt still stick to the old terminology.

 

[killer b]

The earlier posts on this thread make interesting reading. Dont think much of that stuff would pass unchallenged now.

 

[editor]

If any Stoke fans want to lobby for a better title, I'd be happy to oblige. I've never been to the place but their football fans were never particularly nice to Cardiff back in the day, not that that really means much.

 

[danny la rouge]

If any Stoke fans want to lobby for a better title, I'd be happy to oblige. I've never been to the place but their football fans were never particularly nice to Cardiff back in the day, not that that really means much.

Nah. Let the title stand. Anyone who visits knows it isn’t a balanced view. Stoke on Trent’s place in the history of Northern Soul alone gives it cultural significance.

 

[hash tag]

If any Stoke fans want to lobby for a better title, I'd be happy to oblige. I've never been to the place but their football fans were never particularly nice to Cardiff back in the day, not that that really means much.

I went as an away supporter many years ago, a respectable group. Was driven up by the clubs dentist in fact. Our mini bus got bricked.

 

[Teaboy]

Lived there back in the late 90's. I had a huge amount of fun but it wasn't hard to see it was a City struggling in the face of the all the pottery closures. Went back a year or so ago and was depressed to see what state she's in now. So many boarded up shops in Hanley and visible homelessness which was never that bad when I lived there. Tough times.

Talking of Stoke City FC when I live there it was the time of the old Victoria Ground and I didn't live far from it. In those days Stoke and Port Vale were in the same league, that Derby was one you made sure you never left the house during.

 

[8ball]

This is probably a dumb question, but has the system designated the OP as a "New Member" when they posted in 2006?
I know we're all knocking on a bit age wise but that seems a little extreme.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I've visited stoke twice this month, and had a great time both occasions: once to see a play at their very pleasant rep theatre, and once to visit the ceramics biennial, which was amazing: so nonces aside - and I'm sure a similar news piece could be put together for any town in the UK - stoke has a thumbs up from me.

The opening of the crowdfunded clay college up there and generally a few other potteries has been nice to see the last few years.

I do keep meaning to take a tour but can't be arsed. Might try studying up there if I ever get round to it.

 

[AverageJoe]

It's just a slow news day easy clickbait story. Set the work experience kid to pull all the nonce stories from the last two years and bingo: a front page without having to leave your seat.

Yep. From today's local. I imagine they are all owned by the same group so have a generic "Monday is this, Tuesday find this, Wednesday post this" kind of thing.

The 29 men all Kent women should avoid

 

[cybershot]

I visit there often as it’s where the OH is from. It has its special people and special places but where doesn’t?

I’d say it fits in with the mentality that the further north you keep going the nicer people actually are to each other. But let’s not talk about brexit.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

If it is now a city presumably the town thing is in the past?

no

the town of stoke upon trent is one of the six towns that formed the city of stoke on trent

 

[blossie33]

BBC have been running a series showing a more positive side to SOT very recently

We Are Stoke-on-Trent - BBC News

 

[friedaweed]

The earlier posts on this thread make interesting reading. Dont think much of that stuff would pass unchallenged now.

Yup I can't believe that only one person spoke up about someone claiming the Housemartin's were from Stoke.

We call in to Stokey when we're travelling to and from Derby to see Narnia's big nipper, mostly to the Portmerrion outlet shop but we often find a few 2nd hand shops and the likes to make an hour or so of it. The oatcakes are good scan and the folk I work with from Stoke are good eggs.

It's grim for sure but it is up North.

 

[xenon]

It’s midlands, not north.

 

[xenon]

I stayed in newcastle underline once, went to the wheat chief. Was alright.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It’s midlands, not north.

i'm not entirely convinced - Tunstall feels more north than midlands. Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton are definitely midlands, as is Newcastle. and I never quite got the hang of Burslem.

and sainsbury's in Reading have recently stopped stocking staffordshire oatcakes.

 

[fishfinger]

...and sainsbury's in Reading have recently stopped stocking staffordshire oatcakes.

Noooooooo!

 

[binka]

When you grow up in Stafford then Stoke is a rare exciting family Saturday out - the potteries museum, shopping in Hanley*, and of course water fucking world!



*Actually really shit being dragged around the shopping centre by mum and two older sisters but ymmv

 

[Proper Tidy]

I've got a soft spot for stoke on trent. Always quite like the hard bitten places. Port vale fans are cunts though

 

[farmerbarleymow]

We should arrange a piss-up in Stoke!

 

[Puddy_Tat]