Burslem
The Old Post Office Gallery Burslem is proud to introduce Eleanor Heath, the new contemporary Artist that has taken residency within the gallery’s studios. Eleanor’s exciting paintings are a contemporary mix of colour and design. Incorporating both floral and geometric ideas. After graduating in 2002 from Liverpool John Moore’s University with a degree in Fine Art, Eleanor worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Stafford Veterans Pull First Pint
22 Jul 2010
Familiar faces from the 1970s and 80s were back behind the bar as Titanic Brewery celebrated the opening of the Sun Inn, Stafford. Former landlords Ashley Howard, 79, and Brian Deakin, 76, jointly pulled a celebratory first pint to mark the rebirth of the Sun. The historic town centre pub was a favourite destination for pub-goers for decades but has been shut in recent times after an attempt to run it as a wine bar.
Staffords Sun Inn To Use Alternate Energy
16 Jul 2010
Titanic has become among the first breweries to install cutting edge equipment to chill its beer and provide heat for customers. The Burslem brewer has teamed up with Geo Bar as part of the development of the Sun Inn, Stafford, which opens to the public next Thursday (22 July). The Geo Bar heat recovery system takes excess heat created by pubs’ chilling equipment – which is usually expelled outside the building and lost - and uses it to heat water, either for direct use or in the heating system.
Government cuts in funding have forced Stoke-on-Trent College to review it's arrangements for delivering community learning. The cuts have forced Stoke-on-Trent College to end it's contract with Community Partnership Learning [CPL] which has delivered adult courses in community centres across the six towns for the past six years. Although some courses will still run in Normacot the effects of the decision will be felt among ethnic communities across Stoke-on-Trent.
(I originally wrote this three years ago. I have been exchanging e-mails with David Martin who is putting forward a bid to get the area’s industrial heritage recognised as a World Heritage site including the canals and mines. I believe that there is a strong case to be made. I think that Brindley is something of a neglected figure and 2016 will see the 300th anniversary of his birth. It would be nice to think we are looking forward to see what could be made of the tercentenary)
1. Stoke has a problem with areas suffering from poverty, high levels of deprivation and unemployment. A recent report in a local paper indicated that over 1 in 5 of local residents are on benefits. 2. Climate Change is one of the most important policy questions driving government action. All political parties are signed up to the agenda and targets to reduce carbon emissions.
“The ordinary person in the street does not necessary care about the Green aspect of this. He is only interested in two things firstly is there a prospect of a job in this and secondly will it save me money” So said one of the delegates at the Green Jobs summit another said “What option do we have in the present climate. It is the only option”
A Keele University lecturer and his research team are set to use Time Team-style geophysics to find a barge buried when a canal was filled in almost 50 years ago. Dr Jamie Pringle, lecturer in Geoscience, is working with the team behind the Burslem Port Project, who aim to restore and reopen the disused Burslem Branch Canal which opened in 1805 as a branch of the Trent and Mersey canal to serve Burslem's growing ceramics industry.
Stoke-on-Trent Police Surgeries This Weekend
27 May 2010
A number of police surgeries are scheduled to be held across Stoke-on-Trent over the weekend. Officers from Neighbourhood Policing Units (NPUs) across the division will be on hand to meet residents to discuss any issues or concerns. On Friday 28 May officers from Longton NPU are holding two surgeries. Officers will be at the town’s market between 9.30am and 12noon. Their colleagues will be at the Gilani Noor Mosque, Chaplin Road, at 1.30pm.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s oldest former firefighter, Bob Whitby has passed away at the age of 103. Bob, who served at Hanley and Burslem fire stations between 1926 and 1962, sadly passed away on Thursday 13th May. An act of remembrance was observed at the AGM of The Staffordshire Branch of The National Association of Retired Firefighters held earlier this week.
