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>Stoke-on-Trent looked lost. By the middle of the 1980s, after nearly two decades of industrial decline, the city was searching for a new identity.
>The ceramics industry, which gave the area the Potteries nickname, was soldiering on but, since the 1960s, more than dozen mines in and around the city had closed and, in 1978, the Shelton Bar steelworks shut their main blast furnaces.
>The area was not the only place in Britain struggling with the decline and in 1986, Stoke-on-Trent followed Liverpool's lead two years before and hosted a National Garden Festival.
The 1980s festival which aimed to reverse Stoke-on-Trent's decline - BBC News
u/FurryLippedSquid — 12 days ago