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Other Stuff in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire*

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Stuff You Don't Get Anywhere Else

The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else

• Chell heath has got to be the shitest place in the world,possibly with the exception of abby hulton.Don't enter unless your armed to the teeth
• "Stoke-On-Trent should be bulldozed to the ground and rebuilt"-James Whale, Talk Radio.
• Libraries - free email and internet access for everyone in Hanley, Longton and Tunstall Libraries
• The people of stoke on trent are really friendly (unless you bump into a football fan) Everyone who knocks the city- usually southerners who reckon they're better than us cuz they live closer to the queen ought to just SHUT UP cuz they know nothin. We are the elite: the elite people and the elite city.
• Me and mah mates (when we existed there) called it Smoke on Stench. Also when you come out of Stoke Railway station it looks relatively pretty (the bit the Queen saw when she visited (twice!) yet hidden behind those buildings is the damp rancid slug filled slum of Shelton. Didn't shelton use to be posh long ago - burn it doon i say and start again.
• I too thought that Stoke - on - Trent was the worst possible place to live, and in some respects it is true, Stoke is dirty and can be dismal. When you`ve grown up in the area you notice the good points. Especially when you move away. I now live in Stratford upon Avon, and although I thought I`d never hear myself say it, I actually miss Stoke. The friendly folk, the fact that anyone over the age of 65 is impossible to understand, the oatcakes, piklets, the rain, PMT (BUS SERVICE), the shopping centre. I also miss the nightlife, especially when the are I live in hasn`t been introduced to clubs yet. What I`d give to go to Valentinos, Brannigans or the Place. Trust me, don`t ever knock what you`ve got untl you`ve tried livving without it!!! So whether you can ''Yed a Bow'' Or ''Kiss may G`nayt'' Dunna knock it!
• Rumour has it that John Major visited when he was somebody important. As he was leaving a Sentinel journalist asked if he had enjoyed himself. "About as much as anyone can enjoy a wet, wednesday afternoon in Stoke".
• people are generally helpful, except the homeless onthe street which can be annoying!.
• There *are* 6 towns, it was the bloke who wrote the book about that girl of the 5 towns that got it wrong Don't mock Chell Heath, it's an unhealthy thing to do

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