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The canal town of Stone claims
it is THE place to shop, eat and have fun.
Taking advantage of the free parking facilities,
visitors are able to enjoy a wide range of
specialist food, clothes and gift shops, beauty
salons and a fine selection of restaurants to suit
all tastes and pockets (and even a floating
restaurant). The comfort and safety of a
pedestrianised High Street makes for a relaxing
time and for peace of mind the Town is covered by
Closed Circuit Television 24 hours a day.
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Night time in Stone offers
good music, eating and drinking by the
illuminated canal; English, French, Chinese,
Mexican and Italian cuisine.
For those in search of gentle exercise there are
canal and riverside walks with lovely picnic
areas and the Stone Town Trail adds a
fascinating history lesson.
For the more athletic there are excellent sports
facilities at Westbridge Park and Stonefield
Park and a swimming pool open to the public at
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At the heart of
Stone’s thriving business and community life is
SMILE, "the Stone Marketing Initiative for the
Local Economy"; a unique partnership between the
Town Council and town commerce.
SMILE’s creed is that Stone is a great place to
work, rest and play and to celebrate completion
of the town’s new £1/2M pedestrianisation scheme
in September 1997, a plane flying a banner
around the district invited everyone to a huge
free street party. Up and down the high street
were clowns, fire-eaters, jugglers and other
performers and as the music on the main stage
played and played the townsfolk of Stone ate,
drank and made merry. Thousands celebrated and
SMILE’s first big event was such a success that
by the time Sir Stanley Matthews switched on the
Christmas lights later that year, attendance had
virtually doubled.
The new-look high street has given SMILE the
canvas on which to draw up plans to make Stone
the most attractive and vibrant town in the
Midlands.
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