{"id":17187,"date":"2025-03-08T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:19:39","slug":"a-bit-o-brick-for-burslem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/03\/08\/a-bit-o-brick-for-burslem\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit &#8216;o brick for Burslem&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key part of Burslem is to get a \u00a31.25m refurb. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/news\/stoke-on-trent-news\/stoke-trent-street-undergo-125m-9975413\">The \u00a31.25m<\/a> will fund Queen Street being dug up and re-laid with &#8216;anywhere&#8217; paving, with trees planted. Not sure there&#8217;s really room for large trees, but they&#8217;re going to squeeze some in.<\/p>\n<p>The new paving will also continue up the Brick House (aka Brickhouse or Cock&#8217;s Yard) pedestrian alleyway that goes through to the Town Hall, and there will be an unspecified &#8220;cleaning and refurbishment of Swan Square&#8221;, presumably the bit at the east end of Queen Street by the traffic lights.<\/p>\n<p>It all looks horribly modern, forcing the place into being a naff &#8216;same as everywhere else&#8217; retail plaza. That&#8217;s not what you should be doing with somewhere as historic as Burslem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key part of Burslem is to get a \u00a31.25m refurb. The \u00a31.25m will fund Queen Street being dug up and re-laid with &#8216;anywhere&#8217; paving, with trees planted. Not sure there&#8217;s really room for large trees, but they&#8217;re going to squeeze some in. The new paving will also continue up the Brick House (aka Brickhouse [&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-17187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187","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=17187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18001,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions\/18001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}