My exploration is coming to an end, for now. No complaints, just sad. But I might just cope with bringing you some highlights packages from the archives.
Where better to start than Stoke-on-Trent ?
Whether you’re looking for a return to 1972, or 1977, Stoke has it all.
BLOKES WITH BRACES
OK, it’s nearly Newcastle-under-Lyme.
POSH TOILETS
Sadly, in the worst hotel.
PUB TILING
THE GLADSTONE TOILET MUSEUM
Unmissable fun for the family.
STREET ART TO RIVAL OXFORD
FOOTBALL LEGENDS -Banks, Thomas, Clarkson, Pejic.
UNREADABLE CRAFT BEER BLACBOARDS
DRAUGHT BASS
PROPER SEATING
Oh. And oatcakes, m’duck.
retiredmartin 
On a point of order, it’s just “duck” west of Derby, not “m(y) duck”. Oatcakes m’duck is just wrong.
Supposedly the use of duck (with or without m’) correlates quite closely with the borders of Mercia as was.
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QQ,
Yes, but I’ve no recollection of even just “duck” in the Potteries until relatively recently.
Stoke on Trent is only a twenty minute journey for me so why was only 1% of the beer I drank last year in the Potteries ?
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That’s interesting Mudge, cos that’s certainly not my recollection. Maybe when younger you were too scary to be called anything except “Please don’t hurt me, you can have all my money”? 😉
@Etu – interesting, I understood that My/me/mi/m’ duck was definitely the East Midlands version, even if accounts seem to vary on which side of the M1 the border is.
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It was generally just “duck” in Nottingham too while I grew up there, qq.
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So wrong, but it feels so right.
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Great minds agree, Martin
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Stoke always seems difficult to do a crawl in due to distances. Love the pubs though. Has Stafford Mudgie ever bus crawled through the area?
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Paul probably keeps bod, the Titanic station bar, in business, but he was only recently saying he doesn’t use the pubs there much.
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Dave,
Yes, absolutely right about “distances” – probably planned to restrict the spread of Coronavirus !
And no, I’ve not “bus crawled through the area” as I tend to avoid bumpy buses – but that might change when or if I get a Bus Pass thirteen months from now, that’s if there’s still some proper pubs in the Potteries then.
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