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Willow Way, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST11 9SF

Cherry blossom brightens up this line of semi-detached houses on the west side of Chapel Street.

Well Street leads off Chapel Street and the cottages appear to long pre-date most of the houses in the immediate area giving it a rather charming appearance perhaps because of, rather than despite, the lurid pink paint on one of the buildings.

This small church was built in 1856 as a Primitive Methodist chapel on what was subsequently named Chapel Street. Primitive Methodism was first established in north Staffordshire in the early 19th century and the first chapel was built at Tunstall in 1812. This form of Methodism, whose followers believed their worship was closer the ways of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was to spread widely, notably to the USA and Australia. In 1932 the Primitive Methodists merged with the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the United Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain. Today this church in Forsbrook is linked with the larger former Wesleyan chapel in Blythe Bridge.

There is a fine display of dandelions on the verge of this lane that starts as Chapel Street in Forsbrook. Cashheath Farm is ahead.

As the sign makes clear, this pub, one of two in Forsbrook, is a Joules house. At the time of this photograph customers could only be served outside due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Sentiments like this have blossomed during the Covid-19 crisis and the Butcher's Arms - in the absence of anything much being on here or anywhere else - has used this board to add its thanks to the NHS and all key workers. In fact by this date the pub was allowed to open for table service outside, a major improvement on total closure which had applied throughout the winter.

The Butcher's Arms is a Joules house and it would appear that fresh supplies have arrived from the brewery in Market Drayton.

These two shops are on Chapel Street close to its junction with Cheadle Road in the centre of Forsbrook. The barber shop is run by Amy Bagguley and sports the traditional barber's pole; next door is Forsbrook wine cellars - for 'discount alcohol, cigarettes, DVD rental and traditional sweets'.

The Roebuck is one of two pubs in Forsbrook - the other is the Butcher's Arms. next door to the pub is Roshi, an Indian restaurant.

This is the centre of Forsbrook with Roshni (an Indian restaurant), Codswallop (for fish and chips) and Lesley's Lunchbox (a sandwich shop) in view. The road through Forsbrook is the A521 which connects Blythe Bridge and Cheadle.