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Davos Drive, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST8 7FF

This is the gate from Pennine Way to the private fields belonging to Selectus that surround the Uplands Mill (Image), plans have been approved for a two hundred house development to be built here.

Viewed from the rear entrance to Uplands Mill (Image and Image) on Pennine Way. Plans have been approved for a new housing estate of up to two hundred dwellings here.

Looking down the straight section after the Image

Looking up Carriage Drive towards the Image, an opposite view of Image

Looking towards the junction with Crossways.

Taken from its junction with Pennine Way, Carriage Drive will eventually become Greenway Road and emerge in Woodhouse Lane (Image).

A bit further down from where Image was taken.

This pub, located on the junction of Thames Drive and Pennine Way, is reputedly named after one of Oliver Cromwell's big cannons. For another view in different weather conditions see Image, and for a picture of the sign see Image

Once the only company licensed to produce Velcro in Britain the ribbon makers, Selectus Ltd, have now outsourced all their work to the Far East and it looks like this factory might well be redundant; especially as there is now planning permission for a new housing estate here.

This is the sign for the Roaring Meg on Pennine Way (for a view of the pub see Image and Image). It is interesting that the picture is of a wheeled cannon because the pub is supposed to have been named after Cromwell's Parliamentarian forces guns which were, in fact, mortars that had no wheels (see Image by Pauline Eccles). But the Cavalier regiment under the command of the Earl of Northampton did have a wheeled cannon that was also called the Roaring Meg, plus there was also a Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry in 1689 (see Image by Eric Jones). See the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Meg_%28cannon%29 .