{"id":10505,"date":"2022-10-10T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2022-10-10T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:05:43","slug":"from-waterloo-to-vindaloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/10\/10\/from-waterloo-to-vindaloo\/","title":{"rendered":"From Waterloo to Vindaloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/plans-build-2m-curry-mile-25216026\">Not a bad local idea<\/a>, and apparently backed with \u00a32m of private money from a Cobridge businessman&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the Burslem end of Waterloo Road&#8221; could become &#8220;Stoke-on-Trent&#8217;s very own &#8216;curry mile'&#8221; of curry houses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Burslem end of the road is just down-a-bit from the town centre. Ideally you&#8217;d have Burslem town centre itself for such a thing. But I guess the business rates, car parking, and the Council&#8217;s retail use-zoning \/ liquor licensing \/ policing worries are all probably against such a notion. So far as I know Burslem is not about to become one of the new Investment Zones and sweep away such restrictions on trade.<\/p>\n<p>So down on the Waterloo Road looks a good and probably cheap location. Perhaps the shop-fronts could also be nicely restored, so the road would not look like a wall of garish plastic tat. The adjacent olde church might even take in any spare food each night, and feed the homeless with it. <\/p>\n<p>Old picture of this bit of the road, leading up to the town centre, circa the 1910s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/waterloo-rd-burslem-stoke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/waterloo-rd-burslem-stoke.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a bad local idea, and apparently backed with \u00a32m of private money from a Cobridge businessman&#8230; &#8220;the Burslem end of Waterloo Road&#8221; could become &#8220;Stoke-on-Trent&#8217;s very own &#8216;curry mile&#8217;&#8221; of curry houses.&#8221; The Burslem end of the road is just down-a-bit from the town centre. Ideally you&#8217;d have Burslem town centre itself for such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}