Stoke-on-Trent a.k.a Joke-on-Trent

Living in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, West Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent, what a dump. It’s embarrassing to say you live here. A city slowly dying, well it’s actually already dead, but the locals haven’t woken up that fact yet. They are still living in the past of Reginald Mitchell and the long defunct Pottery industry, now a city of call centres and distribution centres where […]

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Newcastle Under Lyme: thinks itself a less downmarket Stoke-On-Trent

Living in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

Newcastle Under Lyme likes to think itself as the less downmarket version of Stoke On Trent, but any resident would be able to tell you this is not the case. Apparently, all the UK’s gold supplies are controlled from this town. And indeed there is a pompous, flashy marble building called ‘The Gold Centre’. And […]

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