|
::
Web Links»
|
|
Sense
Of Place
National BBC Site
|
|
The
BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.
|
|
::
Lost?
|
|
Can't
find something on this website? Find it ... Click
here
|
|
::
Have your say »
|
What
do you think of this page? Send us your opinion...
Have your say |
|
::
Add to this page»
|
Do
you know of any other ideas which should be listed here?
Contact us |
|
::
Do you photo?»
|
|
We
always need pictures. Do you have any relevant pictures you
can let us use?
We'd be so grateful
|
|
|
|
::
Seen a mistake?»
|
We're
only human - we make errors... if you see one, or there's a
broken link...
Please tell us |
|
|
Radio series
On local radio in Staffordshire (Radio's Stoke, Derby and WM), half-hour
documentaries revealing people's affection for the places they live
in in Staffordshire and South Cheshire, and exploring their connection
with the place called ‘home’, were broadcast in early 2002.
Now, you can also hear them here on the web. Scroll down to see the
list of programmes.
Feedback
Even
more important perhaps than the programmes themselves is what our
reaction to them is. If you hear them - and you need (or even just
feel-like!) you want to comment or say something, then do it.
Here's just some of the comments ... why not add yours? - Have your say
| Fenton
is my life. It’s so friendly. It used to take me an hour and
a half just to go up and down the shopping parade because people
just want to talk - especially if you had a baby in a pram…
You could be out for hours just fetching a loaf. MARGARET
COTTON, Fenton |
A Sense of Place
Stoke-on-Trent is a unique city, full of hidden history, steeped
in tradition and, unfortunately, fast losing its dialect.
I was born in The Limes maternity hospital and first lived
at my grandparent's house in Garden Street in Burslem, a photo
of which forms part of Ernest Warrilow's "Sociological History
of Stoke-on-Trent".
My parents then moved to Norton, living in the old "prefabs"
before flitting to a flat in Barks Drive. From there we moved
to the "Grange Estate" in Cobridge. I love this city, the
friendly people, its close proximity to all forms of countryside.
I remember the days of the open air baths in Trentham Gardens,
Alton Towers pre Theme Park, Shelton Bar lighting up the night
sky when the furnaces opened, the glut of pottery factories,
Hanley before the Shopping Centre, "The Grange" at Cobridge
before the Garden Festival and the schools I attended that
are no longer there.
I could go on and on about this city of my birth, a city we
should all be proud to live in.
David Sowerby
Northwood, Stoke-on-Trent |
It
was a dream come true playing on the Alex at 14 years of age,
can you imagine it ? fantastic, I couldn’t sleep the night
before ….. Left home when I was 18 and came back 40 years
later - not much has changed, the people are still the same
… But it’s all about the railway station isn’t it ? The rest
of the country will always know us best for the railways but
there’s so much more to Crewe than that ……
FRANK BLUNSTONE, Ex-Crewe Alex player |
| Web
links>>> |
| Sense
Of Place national
BBC website
|
|
The
BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites
|
Barbara
Adams, the BBC's SoP producer in Staffordshire, tells why
she got involved
" Where there’s a single brick (or in the case of Stoke -on-Trent,
a piece of pottery) there’s a human story to be told. Where
there’s a railway sleeper there’s a man who made it, laid
it or drove his train over it - there’s no end to a person’s
connection with his or her environment, which is why A
Sense of Place is so incredibly groundbreaking. There
is no end to its possibilities because it comes from the people,
it belongs to the people - the more you tell us, the more
it grows."
BARBARA ADAMS
For more information on the series, please e-mail Barbara
on barbara.adams@bbc.co.uk |
|
