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Lower Bryan Street, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST1 5AT

The motifs on the tree were designed from ideas by the children of Sneyd Green and Forest Park Primary Schools. Twenty real trees were felled to make room for the one metal one (plus the plaza around it) but the council have promised to plant three trees for every one removed.

This £350.000 sculpture designed by Denis O'Connor was erected in January 2008 at the entrance to Hanley Forest Park. The lights in the background glow multi-coloured after dark.

A telephoto assisted image, looking north-east from the footbridge across Festival Way. The red-brick apartment blocks* are in Union Street, half a mile away, north of the Potteries Shopping Centre in Hanley. *Forest Court, Brookfield Court and Boundary Court.

Viewed from the Potteries Centre car park.

To create Tree Stories O’Connor worked closely with landscape design and planning team at the city council throughout the process. The artwork stands at Central Forest Park at the Town Road entrance, and is a truly site specific piece that was created in order to engage and unite the local community. O’Connor's company, Sculpture Works held workshops in November 2007 with local school children who explored Central Forest Park's coal mining history. This helped the creation of ‘tree stories’ become a community event and ensured that the sculpture represents the community in where it is situated as well as involving children in the design aspect of the project, creating a more personal connection with the artwork. The 21ft metal sculpture holds leaves on its branches along with tools to symbolise the fruit of the tree, this aims to reflect the area's mining history and pay tribute to the employees that worked in the nearby Hanley Deep Pit. The Pottery and steelmaking industry which was nearby is represented by the pots and the gear wheel. The Tree and ladder represent growth and development and the flowers hanging from the gear the National Garden Festival.

Cineworld is a nine screen movie theatre with 1,100 seats, and next door to it are five restaurants, three of which are Frankie & Bennys, Chiquito and Pizza Express. For added convenience there is a multi-storey car park facility above.

The entrance to the Dudson Pottery site including giving access to the museum.

Potteries Way (A50) is here crossed by Town Road (B5047). Photo taken from car park of the Potteries Centre.

Opposite the Britannic Pottery.