905 - Cheadle

07/28/23 • 5 min

Series 1 Episode 5 - CHEADLE (# 905 Visited 03/07/2024)

Staffordshire, England : Population 11,223 (Rank # 859)

We fail to look around Staffordshire's 'most perfect piece of C19th Gothic Revival' architecture and consume a pizza in the country's 859th largest town.

MUSIC

The Tomorrow People Theme - Dudley Simpson

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

The Visitors - ABBA

Forgotten Towns - The Christians

For Reasons Unknown - The Killers

THANKS

The staff of The Huntsman, Cheadle

Visit the UK's 1,000 largest settlements with Alexander Rennie. For full details of both challenge and podcast, see https://forgottentowns.org

Series 1 Episode 5 - CHEADLE (# 905 Visited 03/07/2024)

Staffordshire, England : Population 11,223 (Rank # 859)

We fail to look around Staffordshire's 'most perfect piece of C19th Gothic Revival' architecture and consume a pizza in the country's 859th largest town.

MUSIC

The Tomorrow People Theme - Dudley Simpson

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

The Visitors - ABBA

Forgotten Towns - The Christians

For Reasons Unknown - The Killers

THANKS

The staff of The Huntsman, Cheadle

Visit the UK's 1,000 largest settlements with Alexander Rennie. For full details of both challenge and podcast, see https://forgottentowns.org

Previous Episode

904 - Biddulph

Series 1 Episode 4 - BIDDULPH (# 904 Visited 03/07/2024)

Staffordshire, England : Population 18,198 (Rank # 577)

Join me in Biddulph, 'Staffordshire's Garden Town'; #577 by rank of size, and home to a servicable branch of a well known supermarket chain.

MUSIC

The Tomorrow People Theme - Dudley Simpson

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

The Visitors - ABBA

Forgotten Towns - The Christians

For Reasons Unknown - The Killers

Visit the UK's 1,000 largest settlements with Alexander Rennie. For full details of both challenge and podcast, see https://forgottentowns.org

Next Episode

906 - Harlow

Series 2 Episode 1 - HARLOW (# 906 Visited 12/08/2024)

Essex, England : Population 86,321 (Rank # 101)

Season 2 sees us back in South East England, armed only with an undimmed sense of adventure and a train ticket to one of the UK's largest 'new towns'.

MUSIC

The Vulture - Ronnie Ray's Playboys

Eat My Goal - Collapsed Lung

I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash

It's Grim Up North - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

THANKS

Greater Anglia

The staff of The Hare, Harlow

C D Brown

Visit the UK's 1,000 largest settlements with Alexander Rennie. For full details of both challenge and podcast, see https://forgottentowns.org