Community Consultant supporting visual business planning, engagement, heritage projects and neighbourhood plans. @PotteriesHSoc member, cyclist & kayaker.

Stoke-on-Trent, England
Joined November 2011
Many thanks to all our members and friends who joined us for our PHS40 Big Weekend and celebrated the Society’s 40th anniversary - the Celebration at @FentonTownHall on Friday, Conference at @PotteriesMuseum on Saturday and Walk in Stoke on Sunday.
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Join us to celebrate our 40th anniversary at our CONFERENCE @PotteriesMuseum on 13 June 2026. Details at potteries.org.uk/diary or book at potteries.org.uk/phs40-confe… See the diary for details of other #PHS40 Big Weekend events: CELEBRATION & WALK.
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Join us to celebrate our 40th anniversary at our CONFERENCE @PotteriesMuseum on 13 June 2026. Details at potteries.org.uk/diary or book at potteries.org.uk/phs40-confe… See the diary for details of other #PHS40 Big Weekend events: CELEBRATION & WALK.
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Join us for the latest in a series of #HeritageRoadshows on Saturday 14 February from 10am at the Community Learning Centre, Trentham Academy ST48PQ. Find out about Trentham & Hanford’s heritage and how it can be protected. Arrive by 11:30 for a walk at 12.potteries.org.uk/event/2026-…
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Join us for the latest in a series of #HeritageRoadshows on Saturday 8 November from 10am at Ford Green Hall, ST61NG. Find out about Whitfield Valley & Norton’s unique heritage and how it can be protected. Arrive by 11:30 for a walk at 12. potteries.org.uk/event/2025-…
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There are fewer listed buildings in Fenton than any of the other towns in the Potteries. Can you name them? Should there be more? Join the discussion on Saturday 12 July at Fenton Town Hall from 10am. potteries.org.uk/event/2025-…
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Join us for the fifth of a series of #HeritageRoadshows on Saturday 12 July from 10am at Fenton Town Hall, Albert Square ST4 3FA. Find out about Fenton’s unique heritage and how it can be protected. Arrive by 11:30 for a walk at 12. potteries.org.uk/event/2025-…
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for today’s #HeritageRoadshow at the Phoenix Works today, and to those who took part in the guided walk around Longton’s conservation area. Find the dates of forthcoming Roadshows at potteries.org.uk/diary
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Join us for the third of a series of #HeritageRoadshows on Saturday 21 June from 10am at The Phoenix Works, King St, Longton, ST31EZ. Arrive by 11:30 for a walk at 12. So much heritage to discover for Neck-enders! potteries.org.uk/event/2025-…
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Join us for the third of a series of #HeritageRoadshows on Saturday 21 June from 10am at The Phoenix Works, King St, Longton, ST31EZ. Explore the heritage sites in Longton and find out how they could be better protected and enhanced.
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Join us for the second of a series of #HeritageRoadshows on Saturday 24 May from 10am at The Dipping House at Spode Works (Church St entrance). Explore the heritage sites in Stoke and find out how they could be better protected and enhanced.
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Join us for the second of a series of #HeritageRoadshows on Saturday 24 May from 10am at The Dipping House at Spode Works (Church St entrance). Explore the heritage sites in Stoke and find out how they could be better protected and enhanced.
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Very sad to hear that our friend and former member Reg Edwards died this month after a long illness. He was an extremely knowledgeable historian, contributing to the People of the Potteries book, our #RevealingVoices project and cataloguing all of the #LastBottleOvenFiring tapes
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Only the richest 4% of people pay Inheritance Tax. Only the richest 1.5% of farmers will pay HALF Inheritance Tax spread over 10 years. This is a protest funded by the obscenely wealthy who want to pay no tax at all.
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200 nationalities, one NHS. Huge thanks to everyone who has dedicated their lives to caring for others.
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LIFE-EXPIRED Having reached the end of its expected or possible life. Example: ‘Everyone was glad to see the life-expired housing being demolished.’ The term tends to suggest that the life can not be extended, although in many cases it could be. www.dictionaryofurbanism
Replying to @BCPCouncil
@BCPCouncil Please. No!!!!! What are you thinking? This is heritage. Living breathing life enhancing tourist attracting high quality construction showing what the Victorians did heritage. A living public Ode to another era! You just cannot take it down!! That is madness.
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Our grand final lunch in The Abbey Church of Dunfermline was kindly sponsored by Historic Environment Scotland and supplied by local cafe Vegan 269! All to say now is safe travels homewards, and already looking forward to the next one… see you next time!
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And… that’s a wrap! Though our #HTNConf24 has come to an end, we are so glad delegates have been able to share time and knowledge together! Here are few glimpses of tour that took place on day 3.
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Fabulous Dinner yesterday at The Den arranged for delegates.The evening included former Heritage Trust Network Trustee, Hopwood DePree, as he shares his ongoing journey rescuing his ancestors’ derelict 600-year-old Hopwood Hall Estate near Manchester.
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