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14 reasons Stoke-on-Trent is a great place to live

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19 February 2022

This pick of the best Stoke-on-Trent has to offer could leave you feeling giddy – with red-brick, bottle ovens kissing the grey skylines and local ceramics master Emma Bridgewater’s bright polka dots breaking out in a feverish rash in your kitchen.

A once industrious – but now sadly overlooked – part of the Midlands, the city offers visitors and locals a surprisingly kooky combination of colour and culture.

Says Stoke North MP Ruth Smeeth: ‘Here we have a rich cultural heritage, a fantastic local workforce and we’re located right in the heart of the country.

And here’s my rundown of reasons Stoke-on-Trent is, indeed, a great place to live and work…

Bottle ovens

Gladstone Pottery Museum dates back to the 18th century (Picture: Getty)

Be sure to look out the window when your train pulls into Stoke-on-Trent station – you’ll see an unmistakable bottle oven, once used to fire pottery, now one of 47 listed kilns that make up the landscape.

Ceramics

Stoke-on-Trent is otherwise known as The Potteries and is officially the World Capital For Ceramics.

Emma Bridgewater

It’s all a bit bright in Emma’s world (Picture: Emma Bridgewater)

Some of the most notable ceramics are by designer Emma Bridgewater, and she is famed across the globe for her colourful polka dot creations.

Community arts

It’s not just pottery Stoke-on-Trent can turn its hand to – as part of a series of regeneration schemes there are many arts projects that exhibit locally and encourage the community to come together and get involved.

Football

There are two major footy teams in Stoke – Port Vale and Stoke City FC.

The universities

Keele: More genteel than Staffordshire. Allegedly (Picture: Keele University)

We do things in pairs here as there are also two higher education institutions – Keele University and Staffordshire University.

Keele students are said to be slightly more genteel.

Cheap property

You can pick up a two-bedroom terrace house for as little as £50,000.

Leafy suburbs

It’s the posh bit (Picture: Trentham Estate)

As well as the rows and rows of small, terrace houses, built way back when for potters, there are more affluent, tree-lined streets, notably around The Trentham Estate.

The Chiron Institute

A quirky entry, but something you can’t do in other, smaller cities in the Midlands.

Pull up your yoga mat and blanket at The Chiron Institute, close your eyes and journey through a soundscape of gongs and the like.

It’s a new-age thing, and it’s right in the centre of Stoke town.

Friendly ‘ducks’

It’s a Stoke thing (Picture: Getty)

We’re a friendly bunch around here and call each other ‘duck’.

Stoke-on-Trent Literary Festival

This annual event takes place every June to celebrate books and authors – and it styles itself as the UK’s only ‘festival in a factory’.

Arnold Bennett

A two-metre-high bronze statue of novelist, playwright and essayist Arnold Bennett was revealed in Hanley this year to celebrate the writer’s 150th birthday.

Lemmy’s Blue Plaque

Burslem-born Lemmy, former Motörhead frontman, has just had his own Blue Plaque unveiled at the nearby Port Vale ground.

Biddulph Grange Gardens

Be nice to the burnished bovine bouncer and he might let you in (Picture: Biddulph Grange Gardens)

It’s worth visiting this attraction, which is part of a stately home north of Stoke, just for the cheeky, all-gold cow that greets you at the entrance to the Japanese quarter of the gardens.

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