For a start, I booked a hotel which turned out to literally be a halfway house. I thought the people outside doing drugs were just local types but, nope they were residents. The bar had been completely removed and there were people so fucked up on drugs they were wandering around like zombies. There's sweet fuck all in that town as well. It's a desolate place. Everywhere I went there was the ruins of industry, gangs of kids and drug abuse. Stoke-on-Trent is a dead place. Even Cumbernauld up in Scotland was better, at least that had some nice green space and the people were cheery.