it's All About The Road

It’s All About The Road, a complete history of Stoke from the Ice Age to twenty years in the future, told through stories from the one road. The stories from one road become a history of the city, but it’s also a history of England.

On London Road, 150,000 pieces of pottery are made by Portmeirion, and 15,000 buns are baked in a steam-powered bakehouse – every week. Dan’s discovered lost canals, lost railways, and a million lost golfballs, and found connections to Margate, Charles Darwin, the man who designed the most reproduced work of art ever, and Jonah.

Written during a year-long residency, commissioned by Appetite, one of Arts Council England’s Creative People & Places programmes, with local community groups SWOCA and Second Look Stoke.