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Holden Avenue North, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 1RQ

On Hanley Road (the A5272).

The Green Star, seen from the junction of Esperanto Way and Hanley Road (the A5272). The emblem of Esperanto is a green star; when the pub was built, Horace Barks, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent 1951-52, and interested in Esperanto, requested that it should have this name. Some years ago, the name in Esperanto - "La Verda Stelo" - could be seen on the building, but it is not shown now.

This pub is on the corner of Esperanto Way and Hanley Road and the emblem of Esperanto is the green star, hence the name. See David Weston's description accompanying his 2013 photo in http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3580102

Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal of more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 different newspapers and periodicals, worked in, and briefly ran, the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Born into a modest but upwardly-mobile family in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, Bennett was intended by his father, a solicitor, to follow him into the law. Bennett worked for his father, before moving to another law firm in London as a clerk, aged 21. He became assistant editor and then editor of a women's magazine, before becoming a full-time author in 1900. Always a devotee of French culture in general and literature in particular, he moved to Paris in 1902, where the relaxed social milieu helped him overcome his intense shyness, particularly with women. He spent ten years in France, marrying a Frenchwoman in 1907. In 1912 he moved back to England. He and his wife separated in 1921 and he spent the last years of his life with a new partner, an English actress. He died in 1931 of typhoid fever having unwisely drunk tap water in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bennett

Junction with Preston Street.

Plaque on the south-west side of the Holden Viaduct. It reads: "This bridge was opened by Mrs J W Oakes on the 14th July 1930, and was erected to replace the original structure built in 1844. Major J Kent DSO Chairman, Councillor J W Oakes Vice-Chairman, Highways Committee."

Bridge for Hanley Road over Leek New Road