tarboat's photos with the keyword: useless

Tiling on old market entrance in Church Street, Stoke-on-Trent. This building is now used for the public library. sadly, this, and many other public buildings in the area have had the decorative architecture ruined by the application of brick acid to 'clean' them. The surface of these tiles has been badly damaged and they have lost their original lustre. This official vandalism is disgraceful and should never have been allowed to happen. Stoke Council should be ashamed!

Stoke-on-Trent City Council makes great play on its website about the value of the greenways it promotes and develops. One of these is the River Trent Path which emerges close to the Michelin Roundabout to meet this classic piece of left hand and right hand each having no idea what the other is doing. Clearly nobody in authority has ever been here to see that the wonderful publicly funded scheme is fully accessible to pushchairs, cycles, etc. The galvanised anti-motorcycle barrier seems somewhat unnecessary in the face of the highway crash barrier which guarantees a motorcycle free zone.