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A Potteries Idyll

9th March 2025 SharpieType301 2400 Comments

This will be quite brief for a Sharpie article (I can almost hear the collective sighs of relief) but it acts as a bit of a paean to The Potteries, and one not only from [more…]

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The Staffordshire Oatcake: a regional delicacy

28th December 2023 SharpieType301 2003 Comments

When someone mentions the word ‘oatcake’, what is it that you first think of? I’d be rather surprised if many of you will not, like I used to do, immediately think of the commercially produced [more…]

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A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise

3rd October 2023 SharpieType301 2291 Comments

A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise Well, Stone the crows! A sunny Saturday in September saw a bit of a surprise. Although we’d noticed the colourful banner advertising the event often enough as we wandered hither [more…]

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Oh, What a Circus!

21st June 2023 SharpieType301 2467 Comments

If one were of a particularly cynical nature, one might think that a piece with this title might have been written to comment upon the near unbelievable social and political culture we find ourselves living [more…]

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Mitchell’s Spitfire

23rd November 2022 SharpieType301 2844 Comments

Earlier this year, we revisited The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley, primarily because we wanted to see the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard exhibits once again. Now living only a few miles away, a quiet [more…]

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Set in Stone

2nd August 2022 SharpieType301 2864 Comments

This tale begins, as so many tales do, on a dismal winter’s day. This particular day, a miserably chilly and grey February one, was a decidedly rubbish day. Not only had Mr S and I [more…]

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