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Post by The Drunken Communist on Sept 4, 2015 13:14:47 GMT
Burslem and Tunstall are like foreign / different towns / city's to me anyway. Once I go North of Hanley it doesn't feel like SOT to me any more. Fuck em Agreed, Harry. The south of the city has all the best areas with ace names like Longton, Blurton & Meir, proper places filled with proper people, hard as nails an all. Not like the north of the city with shit names like Bradeley & Fegg Hayes, filled with tramps with food stains down their string vests & stink of piss. I reckon we should declare independence from the rotters! |
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Post by stokeharry on Sept 4, 2015 13:23:11 GMT
Burslem and Tunstall are like foreign / different towns / city's to me anyway. Once I go North of Hanley it doesn't feel like SOT to me any more. Fuck em Agreed, Harry. The south of the city has all the best areas with ace names like Longton, Blurton & Meir, proper places filled with proper people, hard as nails an all. Not like the north of the city with shit names like Bradeley & Fegg Hayes, filled with tramps with food stains down their string vests & stink of piss. I reckon we should declare independence from the rotters! And we're more Stokie and dead hard and dead fit and just fuckin mint . Those in the north aren't hard |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 13:44:24 GMT
Well ......I can think of one in Fegg Hayes who isn't fit for purpose ......
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Post by mermaidsal on Sept 4, 2015 14:26:57 GMT
In all fairness they're no longer towns at all in any functional sense, they're used as local shops at best, they're going to feel sad for a few more years yet  But take a look at what Urban Vision is getting going in Burslem, and the galleries there not to mention the Leopard, some decent architecture too - although Tunstall has a much better market hall I'd fear for Tunstall more long term. |
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Post by jimigoodwinsbeard on Sept 4, 2015 19:30:32 GMT
I cant believe so many slagging Burslem off, the best place in Stoke on Trent for decent night out. ( for over 30s anyway)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 20:19:37 GMT
I cant believe so many slagging Burslem off, the best place in Stoke on Trent for decent night out. ( for over 30s anyway) May I suggest Frodsham for a weekend visit .....? You could stay at the Forest Hills hotel and decide whether you wanted to stay local or visit Liverpool or Chester instead . Burslem would never have the same appeal again .... |
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Post by loosestools on Sept 5, 2015 18:53:21 GMT
Agreed, Harry. The south of the city has all the best areas with ace names like Longton, Blurton & Meir, proper places filled with proper people, hard as nails an all. Not like the north of the city with shit names like Bradeley & Fegg Hayes, filled with tramps with food stains down their string vests & stink of piss. I reckon we should declare independence from the rotters! And we're more Stokie and dead hard and dead fit and just fuckin mint . Those in the north aren't hard I'm from Biddulph and and was a miner from a traditional mining family from Goldenhill and we are 'aaaard' So do you want war? |
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Post by stokeharry on Sept 5, 2015 19:06:08 GMT
And we're more Stokie and dead hard and dead fit and just fuckin mint . Those in the north aren't hard I'm from Biddulph and and was a miner from a traditional mining family from Goldenhill and we are 'aaaard' So do you want war? Soz |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2015 19:11:55 GMT
Burslem and Tunstall are like foreign / different towns / city's to me anyway. Once I go North of Hanley it doesn't feel like SOT to me any more. Fuck em This exactly, there's always something weird in the air the second you step north of Hanley. I really don't like it. I'd be up for evacuating all Stoke fans from the area then bombing both towns. So it matched the rest |
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Post by upthefud on Sept 5, 2015 21:16:43 GMT
I live in Penkhull and Stoke town centre is the worst so called town in the history of shit towns.
3 bookies a pound shop a card shop and a quid shop.
Do away with this shitty 6 towns idea, as much as its heritage it holds our city back.
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Post by pearo on Sept 5, 2015 21:30:56 GMT
And we're more Stokie and dead hard and dead fit and just fuckin mint . Those in the north aren't hard I'm from Biddulph and and was a miner from a traditional mining family from Goldenhill and we are 'aaaard' So do you want war? Enough said!! (and and) you'd probably be on strike on the day the war broke out |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2015 7:15:28 GMT
Being a collier was one of the very few jobs that gave special dispensation to not be called up to the war due to the hard physical nature of the job. Many returned to the pits after the war however due to the shortage of jobs.
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Post by thevoid on Sept 6, 2015 12:23:50 GMT
Burslem bad- you want to try Tunstall, the land that time forgot.
At least there's some decent real ale and cider pubs in Burslem.
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Post by Nick1984 on Sept 6, 2015 12:35:02 GMT
Tunstall? More like fuckall
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Post by Nick1984 on Sept 6, 2015 12:39:19 GMT
In all fairness they're no longer towns at all in any functional sense, they're used as local shops at best, they're going to feel sad for a few more years yet But take a look at what Urban Vision is getting going in Burslem, and the galleries there not to mention the Leopard, some decent architecture too - although Tunstall has a much better market hall I'd fear for Tunstall more long term. When you look at the geography of Stoke, it's no wonder Burslem, Stoke and Fenton are dead. Maybe they were useful before the advent of cars, but not anymore.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2015 13:15:34 GMT
In all fairness they're no longer towns at all in any functional sense, they're used as local shops at best, they're going to feel sad for a few more years yet But take a look at what Urban Vision is getting going in Burslem, and the galleries there not to mention the Leopard, some decent architecture too - although Tunstall has a much better market hall I'd fear for Tunstall more long term. When you look at the geography of Stoke, it's no wonder Burslem, Stoke and Fenton are dead. Maybe they were useful before the advent of cars, but not anymore. I'm not quite sure what your particular point is . Any visitor from outside the area wouldn't be able to discern any difference between any of the towns to be fair . My mate Gazman says its "rougher than a bears arse" , although he is not native . |
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Post by elystokie on Sept 6, 2015 13:26:01 GMT
The minute you step outside of the city you realise how utterly crap all of Stoke-On-Trent. Same could be said of many cities in the UK. I met a bloke who was working at our place last week, Scottish but lived in Stoke for 35 years, he said when people ask him if he'll go back to Scotland when he retires he tells them he'd never live anywhere else but Stoke-on-Trent because the people are the warmest, friendliest and most welcoming he's ever met. Things seem to be improving anyway - www.signal1.co.uk/news/local/stoke-at-the-forefront-of-economic-growth/ |
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Post by mermaidsal on Sept 6, 2015 23:31:49 GMT
In all fairness they're no longer towns at all in any functional sense, they're used as local shops at best, they're going to feel sad for a few more years yet But take a look at what Urban Vision is getting going in Burslem, and the galleries there not to mention the Leopard, some decent architecture too - although Tunstall has a much better market hall I'd fear for Tunstall more long term. When you look at the geography of Stoke, it's no wonder Burslem, Stoke and Fenton are dead. Maybe they were useful before the advent of cars, but not anymore. Bang on, we agree. Time to bring back the Loop Line as a tramway, for a poor area car ownership is pathetically high in North Staffs and public transport is not just stigmatised but also, crap  |
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Post by JoeinOz on Sept 7, 2015 5:10:36 GMT
When you look at the geography of Stoke, it's no wonder Burslem, Stoke and Fenton are dead. Maybe they were useful before the advent of cars, but not anymore. Bang on, we agree. Time to bring back the Loop Line as a tramway, for a poor area car ownership is pathetically high in North Staffs and public transport is not just stigmatised but also, crap One of the defining points of a places appeal is public transport. It's a big factor in somewhere being accessible and usable. The Potteries public transport is mediocre at best and ludicrously overpriced. A tram network would be ace on several levels. |
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Post by Nick1984 on Sept 7, 2015 7:43:22 GMT
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Post by Northy on Sept 7, 2015 10:29:07 GMT
I went for a run around Aveley, South Ockenden, Lakeside, Chafford Hundred and Grays last night, I'm glad I don't live down here, most of them are not nice, and the main road in Grays was an absolute cesspit of dumped bags of rubbish, gardens unkempt, broken furniture on fronts, a dead fox lying rotting in the sun etc. disgusting, much worse than anything I've seen in Stoke
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Post by NassauDave on Sept 7, 2015 16:03:30 GMT
I went for a run around Aveley, South Ockenden, Lakeside, Chafford Hundred and Grays last night, I'm glad I don't live down here, most of them are not nice, and the main road in Grays was an absolute cesspit of dumped bags of rubbish, gardens unkempt, broken furniture on fronts, a dead fox lying rotting in the sun etc. disgusting, much worse than anything I've seen in Stoke Sounds like Cobridge Road minus the fox as that would be in a Vale fans oven with roast spuds and carrotts at 450 degrees. |
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But take a look at what Urban Vision is getting going in Burslem, and the galleries there not to mention the Leopard, some decent architecture too - although Tunstall has a much better market hall I'd fear for Tunstall more long term.
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