Bears Backing the Bid

My friend Hanley and I are keeping our paws and claws crossed this week because, on Thursday, we will find out whether Hanley Bear's home city, Stoke-on-Trent, will be City of Culture 2021.

We have been busy bears trying to help this happen, because we think it will be especially good for the human cubs who live here.  They know that their home has lots of great places and clever people, but they almost never see those good things on the news.  Instead, there are sad news and bad news stories about Stoke, which is not very fair.  

Here are some of the best things Hanley Bear and I have done together on our journeys around the Six Towns.

I came home with Polar and Grizzly past the Wedgwood factory, where beautiful china is made, before we went through the very famous, very long and very dark Harecastle Tunnel, which has funny orange water and is on the Trent and Mersey Canal. 

We've been Up 'Anley, Duck to visit the brilliant Potteries Art Gallery and Museum and the Bethesda Chapel.

We've visited Middleport Pottery, Westport Lake and Burslem Park, and we've eaten oatcakes from the B'Oatcake Boat.

  

We've been to Central Forest Park and climbed right to the top of the big hill - although Grizzly carried us some of the way because we are very small bears and it is a very big hill.

We've been to Longton Park to feed the squirrels and to the Knypersley reservoir, where there are woods and waterfalls and lots of cheerful wild birds.

Our latest trip was to Trentham Gardens, where there are wonderful gardens and beautiful fairies.  I asked Polar if she could make sock jumpers like ours for the fairies, to stop them getting cold, but she said they didn't need them because they could use magic.

Hanley has asked Polar and Grizzly to take us to lots of other places too, so we can carry on with our #BearsBackingTheBid campaign for Stoke-on-Trent.

Wish us all lots of luck!