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Honeywall, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 7HX

Talbot Hotel is at the bottom of Trade Street, Church Street runs along the frontage. "A popular working-class activity, especially during the Wakes, was the game of 'prison bars'. It was played between two adult teams of eleven by the music of a flute or tin whistle and drum. The game entailed venturing from a den, and capturing opponents who would be taken into a 'prison' and held there until rescued by one of their team mates. It was not for the faint-hearted, and injuries were commonplace. It was played on fete days on the field - known as Prison Bar Meadow - attached to Norton Hall Farm, whilst a field behind Wedgwood's Etruria Works had been given in perpetuity to locals and that was christened Prison Bars Field. The Staffordshire Advertiser of August 10th 1850 records that during Stoke Wakes, prison-bar matches took place throughout the week on the race-course at Boothen. The men of Stoke parish beat those from Burslem parish, and all convened afterwards at the Talbot Inn, where the winners received half a sovereign each, and the losers a silk handkerchief each. There were also contests between factory teams from Stoke, Burslem, Hanley and Longton."

The trees help to contrast the old and the new.

This single storey market building (built 1900) contains several small shops and also acts as a frontage to an open air market. Over the main entrance to the market is a relief panel referring the produce of the market, the central image is a bull's head, this is surrounded by game birds, fish, fruit and other produce. On either wing of the building is a relief panel of the same coat of arms, a quartered shield with several charges. The building frontage has several slim pilasters which act as divisions between shop fronts. These are topped with ceramic capitals depicting a Green Man-type face amongst foliage.

Main entrance to the Spode Pottery Works on Church Street. Established in 1770, the pottery still occupies its original site. The factory chimney is visible behind

This photograph shows a small part of the scene depicted in Image The gate visible in that picture was locked shut and this photo was taken through a gap in its railings.

Church Street (London Road goes off to the right) -the rise in the road can be clearly seen - the canal tunnel runs under here. The light blue building on the left is the Wheatsheaf public house (an old coaching inn). See the start of the Newcastle to Stoke canal: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/344886

Wetherspoon's, The Wheatsheaf is at the end of the road.

Cast iron post by the B5041, in parish of STOKE ON TRENT (STOKE ON TRENT District), London Road, Stoke on Trent, in paving in front of domestic hedge, on West side of road. Cobridge iron casting, erected by the Darlaston turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- STONE 8 MILES Maker:- S.N. Cobridge Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1297962 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1297962 Milestone Society National ID: ST_SNSK08.

A curiosity of the City of Stoke on Trent is that the main shopping centre is located in Hanley, leaving the centre of Stoke on Trent itself as little more than a suburb. This is Church Street with the Wheatsheaf, a Wetherspoon's pub on the right proclaiming its inclusion in the 2012 Good Beer Guide.