So what do you do? – Urban Vision North Staffordshire

Urban Vision North Staffordshire is an architecture and urban design centre.  We work with partners to promote high quality architecture and urban design in and around the North Staffordshire conurbation as a means of:

• Bringing about successful physical and economic regeneration, and social inclusion

• Creating a better and more sustainable urban environment

• Improving the image of the area

• Raising the quality of life for the citizens of today and tomorrow.

Urban Vision is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and a registered charity.

Urban Vision is based in the Burslem School of Art in Stoke-on-Trent and is a full member of the UK’s Architecture Centre Network.

Bull baiting in Burslem

by Mervyn Edwards

The Burslem Festivals of recent years have been civilised affairs compared to some of the Wakes celebrations of yore which saw bulls being baited in the middle of the town.