Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Crumbling mausoleum

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The old mausoleum housing the remains of the Parker-Jervis family is so completely overgrown and hidden that it's virtually impossible t...
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Monday, 30 July 2012

Great mosque shows hubris

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The City Central Mosque in Hanley is a fairly special building. As you can see, it has a huge great green dome, and, as it stands near th...
Sunday, 29 July 2012

Staffordshire name slips away

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The Staffordshire Building Society folded sometime ago - and I was only reminded of its existence when I came across this old photo of one o...
Saturday, 28 July 2012

Skeleton in the window

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The skeleton grins fiendishly out of this window at the walker who passes by this house in the village of Tong. I had a theory that the ow...
Friday, 27 July 2012

A little bit of China

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The so-called 'Pagoda Fountain' at Alton Towers is well away from the rollercoasters that the park is better known for. Older folk ...
Thursday, 26 July 2012

The grave of, er, Little Nell...

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But… Little Nell is a fictional character, from Charles Dickens’ novel 'The Old Curiosity Shop’ – I hear you cry – so how can there b...
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Art Deco faces bulldozer

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This fabulous Art-Deco decorative piece on the front of The Bird In Hand pub in Oakhill tells a sad story. The pub closed down a while ag...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Kids' ceramic project

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I was thinking about yesterday’s post – the one about the marvellous porcelain statuette made in the Potteries – and realised that not on...
Monday, 23 July 2012

Potteries Venus

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The Staffordshire ‘Potteries’didn’t just produce cups and saucers. This beautiful piece, in Parian porcelain, was produced at the Ridgway...
Sunday, 22 July 2012

Bored teenagers

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Are there bored teenagers all over the world? This pair were unimpressed by all the activity around them at this village festival. Out of ...
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