Monday, 30 November 2020

A victim of centralisation

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This rather stylish building is the Old Fire Station, built in Fenton (part of Stoke on Trent) in the first decade of the twentieth century...
Friday, 20 November 2020

Victoriana rules

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  The word most often applied to the Glebe Pub in Stoke town is 'stately' - and it is. This old Victorian was restored by the Joule...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Death has undone so many

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Yet again, Armistice Day is upon us - the day to remember the servicemen and women killed in the world wars. It's always sobering, an...
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Friday, 30 October 2020

Wild panther on the loose

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The most famous story of the Giffard family of Chillington Hall seems a little underwhelming compared to some of the affairs that the Giffar...
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Sunday, 25 October 2020

Lights of Autumn

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It's one of those autumns again, ie similar to the ones of the last few years: sunny days followed by foggy, turn by turn. But the mo...
Monday, 19 October 2020

Two close knots

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Another for my Stafford Knot collection !  This knot graces the old railway station at Rushton Spencer , though the building (1844) preda...
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Saturday, 10 October 2020

Get a fragrant seat

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  This is a new one on me: on a petrol forecourt, alongside the pumps, there was this dispenser, where you can get, not just air for your ty...
Saturday, 3 October 2020

Staffordshire in the scales

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This set of scales, made by the long-established Staffordshire firm of Salters, is possibly arouund 150 years old. I spotted it in a pub in ...
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Saturday, 26 September 2020

Chilling corridors

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As if there isn't enough to be worried about in these days, some people are phobic to empty corridors, especially in hotels. It...
Saturday, 19 September 2020

Telegrams office... once

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There is a strange habit in England of allowing old artefacts from the past simply to stay in place – often for many years.  It doesn’t happ...