Stoke
About Stoke
Stoke-on-Trent, often known as Stoke, is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England. It had an estimated population of 259,965 in 2022, making it the largest settlement in Staffordshire and one of the largest cities of the Midlands. Stoke is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove and Biddulph, which form a conurbation around the city.
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The last Sherlock Holmes was born in 1942 in Stoke. I believe he is still alive and if so would be the last of the gentlemen still standing.
from 576: No Such Thing As A Cursed Cage, 2025-03-27 at 00:13:23 · read transcript
Other times Stoke came up
It's sort of... It's over a tributter. It's the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon, but it's before it joins the river proper, basically. There are no bridges across the Amazon Amazon. Yeah, like you say, Lucy, it's during the wet season, the Amazon is 190 kilometres wide at its widest? That's wide. It's really wide. Imagine from here to Stoke. Maybe Stafford, maybe Stafford.
No Such Thing As A Rubik's Tube, 2023-03-09 · listen
Really? I don't think it's explicitly illegal in British football, but I did write to a referee about this to find out what the truth is, he hasn't replied, weirdly enough. I reckon that it would be on gentlemanly conduct, a yellow card and an indirect free kick. I don't think that matters, though, if you just turn Stoke into pigs. Yeah. Football is full of these superstitions, though.
No Such Thing As Burrito Party Boy, 2017-01-13 · listen
The Bayswater Brothers, whose height is respectively six feet, four inches and six feet 11, and the United Breed of whose shoulders extends to as much as three yards, one foot, five inches. Give respectfully notice to the gentry and public of Paddington, Kensington, Stoke, Newington, in Chelsea, Eaton Square and Shepherd's Bush, that they will be most happy upon all social and chovial expeditions to escort elderly or nervous persons in the streets after dark.
No Such Thing As Carthaginian YouTube, 2020-09-11 · listen
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Coordinates: 53.1000, -2.5667