In Sincere Friendship - From the people of #StokeOnTrent to the people of #Lidice - especially on #10thJune #Lidice ShallLive British Embassy Prague Czech Embassy London 🇨🇿 Památník Lidice Stoke-on-Trent CC 💙🇨🇿🇬🇧

Matt Field Lidice Lives 81🌹🇬🇧🇨🇿 Památník Lidice Petr Pavel Thank you so much for your representation, which also remembers Sir Barnett Stross and the thousands of British workers who donated funds and worked so hard to see that #LidiceShallLive Památník Lidice Czech Embassy London 🇨🇿 British Embassy Prague Stoke-on-Trent CC Cheryl Gerrard

Čest památce Lidic, české vesnice, kterou před 81 lety vyhladili nacisté.

Odkaz Lidic po celém světě žije dál. Nikdy nezapomeneme.
Lidice Lives 81🌹🇬🇧🇨🇿

💐10 June 1942: Nazis entered Lidice, Czech Republic, shot 173 men, removed the women and children and destroyed the village.

🇨🇿 Today we are flying the Czech flag to commemorate those who lost their lives and our city's enduring friendship with Lidice

➡️stoke.gov.uk/Lidice

What a #beautiful sunny day!! #garden #SaveTheBees New Vic Theatre SuE Moffat Aida (Salkic) Haughton MBE CmFPLBenno Stoke-on-Trent Garden City #NaturePhotography #nature #NatureBeauty @BritainInBloom Stoke-on-Trent CC Newcastle-u-Lyme BC

Happy birthday to Barnett Stross!

Born December 25th 1899 in the town of #Pabianice , in the #Łódź voivodeship of Poland, Stross emigrated to Britain with his parents and siblings in 1902.

Knight of the realm, GP, MP & leader of the #LidiceShallLive movement.

Stoke-on-Trent CC

Shelton Bar c1970 photo Ken Davis.

🎄 Wondering where to put your tree after the Christmas decorations are taken down?

📅On Friday 6 Jan all our local tips will be recycling Christmas trees.

🚘Bring yours down so it can be turned into compost and recycled in our local parks.

Another ceramic conundrum. The maker of this beautiful hand painted bud vase was prolific in the south of the city during the turn of the 19th century.

⛔️SANTA DASH UPDATE⛔️
Due to plummeting temperatures, we are sorry to inform you that this weekend's Santa Dash has been postponed on health and safety grounds.
We understand participants will be disappointed but our priority is keeping people safe.

📢Our next in person Exchange is Live!
🌟Partnerships & Visioning🌟
Freelance Artists, Organisations, Community groups, Producers and those involved with making things happen in Stoke ALL welcome.
📅January 17th
⏲️10am-12.
Book for free here👉eventbrite.com/e/490441211867

From Monday 19 December you will now only be able to tell us if you have moved house through our website.

If you struggle to complete this online or need support please visit your local library where a member of staff will be able to show you how you can access this online.

Whirring Winter Warmers

Wide awake because #WalleysQuarry absolutely stinks this evening. I mean, we are chewing on the stench, and it is invading every aspect of our home #StopTheStink
Something needs to happen Newcastle-u-Lyme BC are VERY quiet about this - we are still being poisoned. This is a health timebomb.

👏🏽 Great work British Ceramics Biennial - more than just a biennial festival, supporting communities throughout the year.

♥️ Could you make Muhammad's wish come true? If you feel ready to open your home and heart to a child, fostering could be a fantastic career choice.

⚽️Thank you Stoke City FC for being advocates and promoting why we need foster carers.

👉Visit fostering.stoke.gov.uk.

Revisiting an old friend from December 2013. Written specifically about Fenton for its town council campaign, but poses the question of local councils across the Potteries Stoke-on-Trent CC NALC Local Government Association (LGA) Boundary Commission for England Town Councils for Stoke-on-Trent

It looks like a still from the #WickerMan but it was taken on the 14th April 1924, during a break from the rain at the inauguration of Fenton Park. In opening the park, with a gold key, Mayor Frank Collis said 'It looks like someone has made the desert smile.' Stoke-on-Trent CC

Evening Sentinel report from 14th July 1908 about Fenton's #HospitalSaturday , shows an urban district council working successfully to bring a polycentric town together to raise funds for the North Staffs Royal Infirmary, long before the birth of the NHS Stoke-on-Trent CC NALC

ippr.org/blog/levelling…

If we're starting from the bottom up let's sort out governance. Stoke-on-Trent is too big for the council to handle on its own. Let's see some governance reviews & re-establishment of town councils to boost growth & civic pride Stoke-on-Trent CC Abi Brown OBE