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Way to cold for me to take the mobility scooter out otherwise I'd be taking a wander around the parks and Hanley. It's Beautiful.

That looks amazing. Very dramatic.

Why successive governments don’t divert foreign aid to National Heritage I’ll never understand. A lot of that money ends up in the wrong people’s pockets anyway ! Interesting video. Many thanks.

Excellent account of a little known piece of local history.

Very interesting article , thanks. It's especially interesting for me as direct ancestors of mine lived nextdoor at No 1, Clerk's Bank (as it's known in my family) in the late 19th century. You may have seen the name George Metcalfe in the 1881 and 1891 censuses. He was my great-great-grandfather on my mother's side. Like Isaac Clowes he was a widower by that time, living with his two daughters and a son Charles, who was my maternal grandmother's father. George had moved to Staffordshire from North Wales via Cheshire, and though he had started out as a miner he became a shopkeeper in Leek. No 1 was a grocery business and my grandmother remembered her aunts running the business when she was a child. It's interesting that there was a baker at No 2, because my great-grandfather Charles also became a baker, and had a shop from the 1880's to the 1920's in Belle Vue Road, where my grandmother Jane Metcalfe and her 5 siblings were born and brought up. I'm afraid that beyond this I know nothing of the history of No 1. It has the look and presence of a Georgian building and contrasts markedly with the cottages next to it doesn't it? I wonder if perhaps it too started life as a dwelling, as it occupies such a prominent position next to the church. I notice it has recently been renovated as a house.

We will never see architectural beauty like this again! When I think how unattractive modern homes can be today it makes me realise something must be done!

Tean is well over built with new houses, and they just keep building more with out any consideration for the flooding it causes, it’s all about money at the end of the day and who is making money out of it, disgusting 😡 well done for posting this, thanks from many of us in the area 👍

My goodness! Really fascinating. I pray that this doesn’t end up like many important, historical buildings have here in Scotland in the past few years because of fire 😢😢

the film is free on toutube

brillant video the builders have a long was to go and i suspect 50 mil wont be enough

looks like someone was doing it up and ran out of cash ... usual story

What a heartbreaking sight! Really super interesting video. Thanks

When making a claim against the council for pothole damage, on the form, they ask for your insurance details, this has a knock on effect for your future premiums! I am informed that they do not actually pay for claims from their own purse, but their insurance company foot the bill, thus putting up their insurance premiums thereafter, this is poor management of our taxes! As for suggestions on a solution, rip out the management structure and start again with people who care. Sorted... Angry from Stoke. Age 59..😅

Disgusting how we let thease buildings end up like this.

Thanks for this info. i drive past all the time and always wondered its history

Interesting video. Have you done anything on Seighford Airfield?

Very poignant video. It will be a tragedy if this building it lost.

I grew up in Cheadle and then Tean. I loved growing up in both places. And I still feel angry my mum moved us to Derby. My friends and I would brook walk and go bullheading in the summer. I lived on Greatwood Rd

Went on a great date, took her to the nightclub in the 70's

No one in this country has money to invest in building preservation.

This building is the UK in microcosm - faded grandeur with no money for upkeep

As ever, another wonderful post.

So the rich had to pay more tax and feel a duty to help the poor and disadvantaged 😮

A solar farm was built near where i grew up. It was tucked away so you'd never notice it. Still had green spaces and plenty of wildlife... but this new solar farm.... What on earth... I mean the landfill near Silverdale was approved and only recently it has had some action for closure. But it has has smelled so bad, worst then I've ever smelt it and I live like 5 miles away from it. I honestly feel like the government or whoever has to approve big plans that affect the residents of stoke do not care.... like who in the right mind allows a landfill so close to housing? So I wouldn't be surprised if the solar farm happens. I do feel for the farmers that work tirelessly to help feed us and get nothing in return and have to sell out...

Amazed u got inside there. I live in derrington.

I helped nurse the lady who owned the hall when it was a nursing home. I wasn't aware of its previous incantations.

I worked at Seighford Hall in the 1970s when it was a hotel and later a disco. I loved working there and have lots of fond memories of the place. I'm very saddened to see the state of it now. 😢

@TheRedHairedStokie I absolutely love your content. I've lived in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, for my whole life, and yet you continue to teach me new information about my county every time. - Luis :)

you will never get a spark from brass????

Please, the A50 mentioned runs between Uttoxeter and Hatton, Derbyshire. It is a trunk road linking Leicester with Liverpool. Ashbourne is 15 miles to the north east and not and never has been on the A50.

Why not use the deercote as an open prison? Given the number of prisoner escapes from nearby Sudbury Open Prison and yes Sudbury does live up to its name it would impossible for the deercote to have a worst record?

Learning a lot about my county thanks to you.

Wow i love the old footage of the North Staffs Hunt! Great video and footage thanks for sharing 📖

Been past this place many times, such a shame

Excellent video. You may also wish to note that during the late 1940s and prior to the building being used as a regional police driving school, Seighford Hall also served as the Staffordshire County Police Headquarters, long before its relocation to Weeping Cross, Baswich.

seems like some things never change when it comes to our local councils

I know this vampire story from a long time ago as I was friends with a kid who lived in that very house. I thought it was a cool story, but they told me never to bring it up as it would terrify his little brother and his family would get a little weird about the subject. They were eastern european too. I just thought it was made up at the time. until i found newspaper articles that corroborated it. Lovely living room and garden out back. The place also had a vibe to it at times.

Sadly, it seems, too few people value our heritage as you do. Luckily I visited The Leopard, walked the landings of the hotel and even the toilets were amazing. Unfortunately this decline is countrywide; made so by incompetent, greedy politicians too busy feathering their own nests.

Excellent video, very interesting.

Amazing..I love leek and visit regularly, thanks so much for sharing as a local I love the history

Year upon year, winter after winter of poor and non-existent maintenance. It's not just Stoke, it's not just cars.

Fab!

I’ve never heard of this place but what a beautiful presentation of the history of this community and its beliefs .. thanks so much

Very interesting video as always! Great to see little pieces of local history being explored.

I spent 6 months excavating here back in the 80s under lead archaeologist, Bill Klemperer. Heavy work, but a couple of us excavated one of the few skeletons that was painstakingly photographed and drawn at each stage before being bagged and sent to the museum.

Loved this. My nan and Granddad lived just up the road at no 3 Cheadle Road. I have passed this tiny burial yard many times when I was a child. It opened up my interest in Genealogy. My nan's home was the middle of the old Cross Keys pub , before it moved to the other end of the terrace in Cheadle Rd. Nan had cellar stairs that ran to nowhere - I loved to envisage the home as part of the original bar 😁

thank you, this was very interesting. My nan used to take us up to the chippy in tean when we were kids and i'd always stand outside waiting by that little graveyard wondering where the church was!😂

The amount of times I've driven past there and never seen it. Fascinating history. Thank you

I applaud this guy for telling the truth .Our council waste money irrelevant rubbish .ie : Big flat back dogs outside the old registry office in Hanley .WHAT A WASTE of money .What's the point of things like .The council are don't care about encourage investment in our city ,or anything important .