Writer illustrator 20th C architecture art engineering. Interests Modern Movement and British High Tech including Patera Building and Potteries recent heritage.
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I dug up this brick out of the garden. It’s well over 150 years old and the Ridge Hill clay pit site, visible over the fields from the garden, is still going strong. @AJogee @fslconsult
Who is being weighed in the balance over North Staffordshire’s industrial decline? @danro_art @KenZeroHarm @fslconsult @JohnAcid
The fires of North Staff’s industries are mostly burnt out. Fires now are saved for heritage sites - after Wynne’s Spirit of Fire @danro_art
“FIRE IS AT THE ROOT OF ALL THINGS BOTH VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE” Gemini came up with this as David Wynne’s “Spirit of Fire” before it died - fuelled by the 1960s beating heart of industry. TP Bennet’s Lewis’s façade is timeless. @KenZeroHarm @danro_art @fslconsult
Here’s a later version of a possible front cover for “Who let the Fire Go Out?” - a forthcoming piece with analysis of reasons for North Staffordshire’s industrial decline. @fslconsult @danro_art @JohnAcid
Can you help @AntCoulls ? Was a rope knotted in the form of a Staffordshire Knot used as a token “one train at a time” for single track sections of North Staffordshire Railway?
Sleuths - One train at a time - re. Neale’s ball token and its Indian origin (his father worked on NSR), and my unresolved knotted-rope memory - Did NSR use a knotted rope in the shape of a Stafford Knot? Or, am I misremembering the Vic play The Knotty? @fslconsult @KenZeroHarm
The “Clayton’s Patent” refers to the patent of one Clayton who invented a brick press. He was awarded a prize at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
I dug up this brick out of the garden. It’s well over 150 years old and the Ridge Hill clay pit site, visible over the fields from the garden, is still going strong. @AJogee @fslconsult
Do you have a list of these? @fslconsult
The Grade II listed Brindley tunnel portal and retaining wall (right of photo) appears to have been painted white, spoiling the composition of the Telford and Brindley tunnels side by side, and damaging the heritage.
Tunnel in 39 mins which is 2 or 3
slower than I usually do. Only boat in and struggled to get into my stride straight away. Luckily I made it 🤭🤓😂 #boatsthattweet
The Grade II listed Brindley tunnel portal and retaining wall (right of photo) appears to have been painted white, spoiling the composition of the Telford and Brindley tunnels side by side, and damaging the heritage. Photo © Alan Murray-Rust via Geograph.
1/5 Option D: Enhanced North Staffordshire — A Short Summary @fslconsult
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council's own submission, formally known as "Enhanced North Staffordshire" or Option D, was one of five competing proposals submitted to government on 28 November 2025.
5/5 , unmodified three-borough model, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Moorlands alone, without the southern extension Option D had proposed. The Enhanced North Staffordshire submission was therefore considered and set aside, not taken forward, leaving….
That’s wonderful @KenZeroHarm
We had the Girl Guides in this morning. Delighted to announce that they all left with a new badge! Well done.
#SafetyFirst
1/4 Heraclitus of Ephesus, who lived and wrote around the turn of the fifth century BC, said something close to this line twenty-five centuries earlier, in a form considerably stranger, and considerably more useful, than the paraphrase on the Hanley plaque.
