Stoke-on-Trent Heritage & Culture

lidicelives.org/2022/05/25/27t… 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

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

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 lidicelives.org/2022/06/01/a-s…

@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.

With £56m of Levelling Up Funding, Stoke-on-Trent can build projects that will transform the city for its people. @DehennaDavison visited this week to talk about Levelling Up and also met with @SoTCityCouncil leader @AbiBrown1 to see the good work being done first hand.

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

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

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

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

@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.

The phrase 'humanitarian crisis' should not need to be used in a report about a city in the sixth richest country in the world We need to tackle #poverty before we can truly say that #Stoke is on the up @SpatialityJones @StaffsUni @SNS_CAB @YorkUniversity #StokeOnTrent

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

@StokeCobbles @AbiBrown1 @michaelgove Try Trillions..ask Germany, they know post the fall of the wall..including a special temporary income tax(still paid at top rate)

‼️ Yesterday, we proved that #StokeonTrent remains the litmus test for #LevellingUp with a roundtable in No10 chaired by @michaelgove ➡️ Discussions on progressing ambitious plans on transport, culture, skills, housing & investment for our city, because #otherspromisewedeliver

Outside the North Stafford Hotel, Winton Square. 1928

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

@smithy1876 Work in progress 👍

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.

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

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?

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

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

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