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What is there to do in Stoke

All Acting Regiment

10:44 / 25.08.06

I may be waiting for a train in Stoke for a bit. Is there anything interesting to do there?

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:52 / 25.08.06

Read a book?

All Acting Regiment

10:56 / 25.08.06

I was thinking of buying some of the fine Gothic pottery, of, is it Sussex?

Saturn's nod

11:00 / 25.08.06

Interested in ceramics? Or visiting gardens?

All Acting Regiment

11:35 / 25.08.06

That looks over-exciting. Is there perhaps a WH-Smiths at the train station?

Olulabelle

12:04 / 25.08.06

I don't think Stoke is in Sussex. It's quite near Alton Towers though, if you fancied that. In an hour you might be able to, say, get there, before you had to come back.

I think you would be better off spending your time researching the British Isles a bit for the next time you have an hour in a train station, or fancy entering Mastermind with a specialist subject.

Saturn's nod

12:15 / 25.08.06

If you did mean Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., which was the one I linked to potteries and gardens of, then I managed to find the canal within a short walk of the railway station one time: you could go for a mooch if your baggage isn't too heavy.

petunia

12:24 / 25.08.06

Yeah. Stoke-on-Trent is in Staffordshire, as has been said.

I think it's famous for being the home of some potteries and Robbie Williams.

It's also famous for being deadly dull.

The canal is very close to the station, and may be a bit nicer looking than the town. The town (as I remember) is a bit like some odd mix between a building site and a truckers' yard.

The train station is quite a nice old building, but as with nearly all train stations these days, there's bugger all to do in it. There might be a WH smiths, but probably not. They might have a newsagent tho...

My advice?

Find an earlier train out.

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