Totally Locally Burslem

Delivery dates for brides ordering this week!💕

We have had so many new dresses arrive into store so now is the best time to choose for your 2025 wedding, delivery dates for most of our designers are now January 2025. Please make sure you’re factoring in 12 weeks of alterations also!

If you know a 2025 bride tag them in this post if they haven’t found their dress yet!🙌

𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Arts & Crafts
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Wednesday 21st August
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 12.30-2.30pm
𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀: 77-81 Meaford Drive, Blurton, ST3 2BB
𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻-𝘂𝗽 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺: https://bit.ly/3XX8hcL

Please note that this is a 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 event, all ages welcome. Parents must stay, and lunch is provided.

The booking form is 1 per child (so if you have multiple children, each of them must have a separate form). If you book and then need to cancel please let us know so we can open the space for other children/families. No communication or just not turning up will result in you (and your children) not being allowed to access any other summer activities with us.

When all the spaces are filled, the form will close so be quick and we can’t wait to see you all!

30th & 31st AUGUST, 13th & 14th SEPTEMBER
CREATE WITH CLAY - Disability Learning Sessions
Time: 10.30am to 2.30pm
Tickets - FREE
Thanks to funding from our partners, Museum Development Midlands, Art Fund and Arts Council England we are able to offer free creative learning sessions for people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Further dates are also available click the link below for more details.
These sessions will be smaller than our public sessions, giving you a chance to be creative in a calmer and less crowded environment, making it more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
Each ticket allows participation in the session. This includes a portion of clay, so everyone can get involved and create together.
For Tickets & Additional Dates Info: https://re-form.org/middleportpottery/whats-on

Ideas for Burslem alleys?

‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens Flowers, herbs and community spirit all flourishing in garden ginnels reclaimed from once-rubbish-strewn alleys

C is for COMMUNITY members who have been part of The Big Feast, and those who shape it.

📸 Parade by Kwanzaa Collective UK and community members at The Big Feast 2023. Image by Jenny Harper Photography

You can see more local community stories and performances at this year’s Big Feast. The Miner Birds* - inspired by the experiences of North Staffs Miners Wives Association Group (NSWAG) and its Chair, Rose Hunter - marks the 40th anniversary of the 1984 miners’ strike this year. And the ArtsHill Performers from B-Arts are back on the Piccadilly Stage this year – plus more! We’d all love you to come join us. Find performance times, the online brochure and access info all at bit.ly/BigFeast24

*Miner Bird Monologues is a new play by Lisa Blower, the culmination of a New Vic Borderlines research project in partnership with Institute for Social Inclusion

Image description: We are looking at a parade of people walking and dancing down Piccadilly in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre. Most of the parade members in the background are obscured by those in front who are wearing yellow headbands with large feathers, and waving huge wings made from turquoise and blue fabric with frilled edges. Leading the parade is a lady in full swing, her long green skirt with pink frilled edging held out to the sides and twirling energetically. She’s wearing a shawl and knotted headdress in bright, checked fabric, her braids flying out to the sides. Despite the obvious grey, wet conditions, the whole scene is vibrant and full of movement.

Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID Stoke-on-Trent City Council

3rd, 4th & 5th October
Banjos & Bottom Knockers
Tickets: £15
A play with songs for The Potteries starring Ernest Vernon, Stuart Ellis & David Keen
Brought to you by the Manor Theatre Company
For more info & tickets: https://re-form.org/middleportpottery/whats-on

We're delighted to announce our latest temporary exhibition. Peter Lymer was a local engineer who had a lifelong passion for photography. He had a natural eye for a great photograph and enjoyed capturing the people and places around him. He converted the coalhouse at the back of his house in Fenton into a dark room and taught himself the skills to enhance and develop his images into works of art.

Peter's black and white images capture the essence of The Potteries as it was just a generation ago but yet in many ways a different world. Most of the photographs have never been shown in public before and this is a fantastic opportunity to view a fascinating unseen archive of life in The Potteries.

Until Saturday 31 August, admission free.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/21/pevsner-architectural-guides-buildings-of-england-staffordshire-nikolaus-pevsner-christopher-wakeling-review

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia

You have until 10pm to vote, and don’t forget your ID!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-big-stoke-on-trent-central-general-election-debate-tickets-923753410317 register on this link

https://www.6towns.co.uk/news/local-news/candidates-announced-for-general-election/

Candidates Announced for General Election Below is the full list of candidates standing in the General Election in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent.

Lovely sunny day, perfect for a walk on the Bursley Trail. See the buildings that feature in Arnold Bennett's novels. Use this guide, or pick up leaflet from Barwall Gallery during the week. Stop off for coffee at Market Place, Cafe.

Reminder online accessory sale still on!✨

Find some amazing deals on our website, up to 80% off selected items! Link below!⬇️

✨Tiaras/headpieces
✨Veils
✨Garters
✨ underskirts

https://robertasbridal.co.uk/wedding-accessories-sale/

We will be back in Tunstall Park on Friday 31st May!!

Our hugely popular accessible and adapted canoeing and kayaking for everyone.

We look forward to welcoming you.

THIS WEEKEND
25th & 26th May
Middleport Artisan Late Spring Market
10am to 4pm
FREE ENTRY
Don’t miss the local makers & bakers of Middleport Artisan Markets as well as visiting the on-site independent tenants of Port Street Range & Harper Street, the Middleport Pottery Gift Shop and the Burleigh Factory Shop

Jobs

Coming to What on Earth?! on Keele Campus this weekend but not visited before?

You can find out details on how to here via bus or car, along with parking and other information for your visit on our FAQ page https://appetite.org.uk/what-on-earth-at-keele-campus-faq/

We can't wait to see you at What on Earth?! this Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April from 11am to 4pm!

Keele University Arts Keele

Photo by Daria Agafonova

Image description: Two people wearing light coloured clothing are dancing outdoors in the sunshine.

11th May
2nd Anniversary Harper Street Event
FREE ENTRY – 10am to 4pm
Join us in celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of the regeneration of Harper Street. Take part in hands-on children’s activities with Middleport Matters Community Trust & the Harper Street Tenants, tour “How we lived at Harper Street” for just £1 (pay on the day) Music from Sassy Grey Singer, Chase's Sweet Shop & lots more!
Book: https://re-form.org/middleportpottery/whats-on

Great appointment

Centre for Business, Innovation and the Regions appoints Visiting Professor Chief Executive at the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) Mo Baines has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University.