Heritage Open Day – From Pottery to Parklet
Saturday 12 September: 1pm – 3pm Sunday 13 September: 12pm- 3pm Free, drop-in. Please note we’re open for other workshops and activities on these days too. Location: Do you have memories, photos, stories and pots from George Jones & Sons and Crescent Pottery Days? If so, we’d like to meet you! Long before the bamboo arrived, […]
Brilliant Bamboo secures brownfield site in Stoke for pioneering parklet
Press Release by Hannah Hiles for Brilliant Bamboo. A Stoke-on-Trent-based bamboo project has found a home on a disused patch of concrete in a supermarket car park where a major pottery factory once stood. Brilliant Bamboo, led by Gemma Thomas, has signed a 10-year lease on an approximately one-acre plot on the edge of Sainsbury’s […]
Press Release: Community organisation seeks land in Stoke to create sustainable bamboo park
We’ve been working to create a mini-park or “parklet” for Stoke town centre, we’ve recently worked with Hannah Hiles to support us to reach more people to help find the first location. Here’s the full press release: A North Staffordshire organisation which aims to explore the use of bamboo for the benefit of communities and […]