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Shops and Hobbies in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire*

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• Infinities is a top shop,pockets,terraces,scotts dodgy DNA all good for casual clothing
• pound stretcher thats where they all shop!
• Zero's. Actually in Newcastle under Lyme, but never mind. There's a couple of boutiques - Rescue II f. ex., if it's still standing,
• INFINITIES 4 MODS & MUPPETS, TOPMAN 4 CASUALS,. BRING BACK SLIDE!
• Peako! Paddy! Infinities.
• Top shop in Hanley is quite good and Miss Selfridge is Ok even though it has shrunk! Rowfers sells good clothes but can be a bit expensive. Temptations is Ok but some of the clothes aren't that good quality.
• loads if you want to pay extortionate prices to look like the charlatans circa 1994. Please dont dress like this just because everyone else does its not cool to be clones even oasis dont dress like that anymore.
• Pockets, great clothes, new stock in all the time.
• Infino's, Review, better of going to Manc though, as Stone Island and Paul & Shark are school uniform these days.
• Only commercial crap.
• envy is class, infinities and pockets are good but way too expensive
• huge river island and topshop,debenems has some designer labels.....
• i never knew people could afford clothes in Stoke On Trent
• Check out 'The Shop' on Marsh Street Hanley. New and beautiful, if only just to look at Essential clothes for essential peoples - Rumour that students get a discount! Speak to Mr Bumble (him with the sparkly teeth and nice attitude)
• Infinities, Review, Flannels, Scotts.
• Galerie in Newcastle is good for men and women but is quite expensive.
• Vault of heaven....on pay day.
• wear it with dignity, hanley, in the arcade by the stage door pub. cool baggies and so on. also a shop in the same arcade as fantasy world - can't remember the name, i think it's top q but may be wrong
• Gemini and Rescue for good quality. Infinities for mega bucks, (cost me a fortune but I go all the same) the usuall for the rest
• Miss Selfridges, Top Shop (expensive but good for clubbing gear and everyday stuff), Top Man, New Look, Lewis's Arcade, River Island, Bay Trading Co., Temptation (cheapish some cool stuff), C & A, all sports shops, Dolcies (cool shoe shop), Dorethy Perkins, Tammy Girl/Etam.
• Around and about the town shops are average, Rowfers is good for indie clothes and candles etc.
• Rollersnakes. Grunge influence try London Underground or Grapevine. For good socks, DMs (and skating staff) try Millets Newcastle?
• Mark one, Jeans Workshop, Potteries Shopping Centre

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• go down da local ''christian cnetr'' duck im sure you'll find da ruins of 1!!
• webbelys is very good,theyve got everything you good need
• Theres a Gallery above Dazed, other than that the museum!
• art, in stoke? only at the universities
• Athena is cool the Museum people say stoke is shit but most places dont even have the historical background or a museum for that matter
• The art shop next to McDonald's in Newcastle (it's been there longer!) is good for college students and enthusiasts.
• Morrigan Pottery
• Museum in hanley.
• rowfers av sum nice little things and athena! Gadget shop 2!
• I had a crafty wazz in Argos?? that count.
• A couple of galleries to choose from... Potteries Art Gallery; Burslem School of Art galleries. And within seven miles; Keele Art Gallery; Newcastle Gallery (mostly watercolours and pots, naff), Alsager Arts Centre up at Manchester Uni's Alsager site in Stoke, and Moorlands Arts up in nearby Leek. And if that lot exhusts you - you've got the free world-class galleries of Manchester and Birmingham within an hour's train ride, you bloody whingers! Artists should get in with the Stoke Arts and Architecture Club, which puts on high-quality talks and events which go beyond the usual evening-class watercolours tat. There's also Staffordshire Art & Crafts Network, and the traditionalist Society of Staffordshire Artists. There are a huge number of academic art courses in and around Stoke; Staffordshire University's School of Art & Design / IRIS, International Centre for Women's Photography / Stoke Further Education College / Manchester Metropolitan University's Department of Contemporary Arts, Alsager Arts Centre, Stoke-on-Trent / Newcastle College - Faculty of Art and Creative Studies / Visual Arts at Keele University (about 5 miles from Stoke / Frink School of Figurative Sculpture, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent / and the WEA's Wedgewood Memorial College.
• Hanley museum and gallery is actually top-notch, regardless of if you're into pottery or not. Not much otherwise.
• This is Stoke, the city where railings at a cost of £60000 were put up around the grass near the bus station in the name of art.
• As severe lack of Art in Stoke-On-Trent. They are too interested in making yet another pottery museum.
• the only art round here is FUCK OFF STOKE and stuff scribbled onto walls
• Bedford Singers run a truly memorable classical music festival, check out: geocities.com/bedfordsingers
• Graffiti and abuse of Stokies to be found on walls throughout the City
• The museum, about 5 minutes from the town centre, has the usual collection of rusty Roman belt buckles and an extensive collection of pots. It has the odd good travelling exhibition, though.
• Hey Focus DIY now sells some pukka craft stuff if your into it

Magazine and Comic Shops

• Stoke is one big comic!
• Fantasy World. That's it.
• BODENS NEWSAGENTS 4 ANYTHING FROM MIXMAG TO CREATIVE REVIEW TO DAZED AND CONFUSED.
• Another World has rare comics, otherwise just a newsagent like WHSmith.
• Another world is still as dodgy as it was when it was called fantasy world. Despite the fact that it's moved to a more commercially viable site it is still full of porn(much of it next to pokemon toys) it still sells 12' samuari swords and it now has a gun cabinet.
• For all of you nerdy, yank/jap needs goto Another World. I got my signed WWF "Mankind - Have A Nice Day" autobiography from here.
• fantasy world is brilliant for this
• PORNO CITY
• Fantasy World. No doubt the owner is indulging his fantasy, as the shop is gradually taken over by porno-calendars.
• Fantasy world...Yes, they're living in one alright. Calendars of undressed starlets decorate the narrow stairwell making this a proudly grrl-unfriendly store. Standing orders for comics are invariably screwed up and why? Because this is a crap corporate chain that doesn't give a damn about comics.
• Fantasy World in Market Square Arcade in Hanley.

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