Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture

Supporting the work promoting H & C in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire. Raising awareness of the region's architecture and intangible assets @LidiceLives

[Alan Gerrard 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇿 @alanjgerrard]

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27th May and we remember the events that took place at the junction of streets Kirchmayerova třída & V Holešovičkách, below a school in #Kobylisy #OperationAnthropoid, the mortal wounding of #ReinhardHeydrich by #JanKubiš & #JózefGabčík
@SoTCityCouncil

[Alan Gerrard 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇿 @alanjgerrard]

On #June1st #InternationalChildrensDay

we remember the children of #Lidice, and countless others prior and since, who've been victims of atrocities

@LidiceLives @UKinCR @SoTCityCouncil @Pamatnik_Lidice

[Alan Gerrard 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇿 @alanjgerrard]

On 3 June 1942 a love letter was handed to the #Gestapo which would have devastating consequences for the Czech people.

It gave #KarlFrank an excuse to create a narrative linking the village of #Lidice to the murder of #Heydrich

@SoTCityCouncil @UKinCR

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[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

@luhc @DehennaDavison @SoTCityCouncil @AbiBrown1 Respect to individuals @SoTCityCouncil but these sums are insignificant. £BILLIONS are required to "level up" post industrial cities of the North to the standard of living experienced in the South East. Anyone with a grasp of economic literacy knows that.

[Alan Gerrard 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇿 @alanjgerrard]

Construction work on the #Lidice Rose Garden started on 14th March 1955. Brainchild of Stoke-on-Trent MP, Dr #BarnettStross, leader of the #LidiceShallLive movement, it was inaugurated on 19th June in the presence of a massive crowd @SoTCityCouncil @LidiceLives @UKinCR @UKandEU

[Alan Gerrard 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇿 @alanjgerrard]

Burnham Street: resident estimates 15-20 lorries a day. Street seems to be sinking with the weight of onslaught. Mucky brown river of silt runs from the closed up entrance of Potteries Demolition down onto King Street, then along till it disappears into a drain @SoTCityCouncil

[Fenton, Town of the Long Street 🇬🇧 @Progthrust1]

Great to see the daffodils by King Ford in Fenton East coming up. More to come. @alanjgerrard @cheryl_gerrard

[Fenton, Town of the Long Street 🇬🇧 @Progthrust1]

Quietly optimistic about the response to an enquiry regarding expanding Fenton's Christmas lights more extensively across its 3 main thoroughfares - City Road, Victoria Road & King Street, making #Fenton feel like #onetown again. @alanjgerrard @cheryl_gerrard @FentonGlennLP

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

@fslconsult @SpatialityJones @StaffsUni @SNS_CAB @YorkUniversity Quite right. Well said Dave 👍I believe it is a fundamental principle at the heart of the German constitution that GDP per capita should be equalised across its regions. If only we had the same political will here.

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

@andymhamilton @AbiBrown1 @michaelgove What, trillions to make a start?

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

Outside the North Stafford Hotel, Winton Square. 1928

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

The Boundary Works, built by Jacob Marsh (a potter of Toby jugs) in 1819, looks incredibly precarious.

If the city isn't watchful it's going to have yet another heritage disaster on its hands... @SoTCityCouncil @AbiBrown1 @Progthrust1 @fslconsult @alanjgerrard @KeithBrymer

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

@smithy1876 Work in progress 👍

[Howle Communications @Howlecom]

The former hq of the Sentinel. How can such a significant building in Stoke-on-Trent's history be allowed to get into such a state? There's even a tree growing out of the roof.
I worked there in the 80s when sales of the paper were over 125,000 a day.

[Alan Gerrard 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇿 @alanjgerrard]

Missing my old mucka Sid today. It's been 5 years since the artist, famous for his deceptively evocative watercolour landscapes of mid C20th industrial Britain, left us, and he remains sorely missed by so many out there, at home & abroad.@ArtKirkham @TheartbayG @cheryl_gerrard

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

What a fantastic photo shared by Alan Amison. Looks like Crown Bank, Hanley c1930? Cappers would become George Mason's grocers, shop was rebuilt circa 1960. Views?

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

The old Goodwood furniture shop, Commerce Street Longton c 1950. The shop is now a take away. Photo unknown.

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

On 2nd January 1942, the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, Harry McBrine, opened a fund for the relief of the dependents of those who lost their lives in the Sneyd Colliery Disaster, the day before. Sneyd Collieries Ltd opened the fund with a contribution of £5000 @LidiceLives

[Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture @StokeCobbles]

The old Sandyford Service Station 1960s, now a motorbike shop. Copyright Lynn Melnyk