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Outclough Road, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST8 7QH

Looking over the junction from Fisher Street (on the right) and Bridge Street. The first cottage is currently operating as a hair and beauty salon.

Colour Code, a beauty salon on Bridge Street in Brindley Ford.

With the Gardeners Rest pub on the right, and a property for sale on the left.

The village of Brindley Ford on the A527 as it enters Stoke on Trent from Congleton.

Looking down across Brindley Meadow to the rooftops of the houses in Brindley Ford. The 11.8 hectare Brindley Meadow started life in the 19th century as a sandstone quarry known as Knypersley Quarry. In later years it became a dumping ground for slag from a nearby foundry and for shale from local mining activities, this was to continue until the site was abandoned and left derelict in the 1960’s. In the mid-1990’s a development company, Banks Group ( http://www.banksgroup.co.uk/ ), became involved and applied for, and secured, planning permission to reclaim the quarry. This involved the extraction of coal from underneath the quarry between 1997 and 1999 and the tipping of 250,000 tonnes of inert material into the quarry between 2000 and 2002, with the final reclamation finished in the same year. Approximately 50% of the site is planted with trees to create woodland, the rest with wildflowers and shrubs.

The Mission Church of St Chad opened 1890. The building is no longer a church, but is now the premises of Elementation Limited, founded in 1983, and producing industrial electric heating elements.

This is the entrance from Fisher Street. The recreation ground, which was equipped with play equipment in 2012, is a Queen Elizabeth II Field In Trust, which safeguards the land as being 'a recreational site for everyone for ever'.

Brindley Ford Flood Alleviation Scheme.

Looking from the north-eastern entrance to Brindley Meadow to Brindley Ford in the bottom of the valley. The 11.8 hectare Brindley Meadow started life in the 19th century as a sandstone quarry known as Knypersley Quarry. In later years it became a dumping ground for slag from a nearby foundry and for shale from local mining activities, this was to continue until the site was abandoned and left derelict in the 1960’s. In the mid-1990’s a development company, Banks Group ( http://www.banksgroup.co.uk/ ), became involved and applied for, and secured, planning permission to reclaim the quarry. This involved the extraction of coal from underneath the quarry between 1997 and 1999 and the tipping of 250,000 tonnes of inert material into the quarry between 2000 and 2002, with the final reclamation finished in the same year. Approximately 50% of the site is planted with trees to create woodland, the rest with wildflowers and shrubs.