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Stoke-on-Trent: Industry: 19th-century bone and flint mill built to grind materials for the pottery industry, features working steam engine Ford Green Hall: Smallthorne: Stoke-on-Trent: Historic house: 17th-century timber-framed yeoman farmer's house with 17th-century furnishings, textiles, ceramics, and a period garden Gladstone Pottery Museum ...
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is in Bethesda Street, Hanley, one of the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. Admission is free. One of the four local authority museums in the city, the other three being Gladstone Pottery Museum, Ford Green Hall and Etruria Industrial Museum, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery houses collections ...
Mintons was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", [1] an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art ...
Mitchell Arts Centre is in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Formerly known as the Mitchell Memorial Youth Theatre and Mitchell Memorial Youth Arts Centre and referred to locally as The Mitch. It was opened by Group-Captain Douglas Bader on 28 October 1957, [ 1 ] 14 years after Lord Mayor Councillor Charles Austin Brook launched a public appeal in ...
The Spode Museum is based in Stoke-on-Trent, England, where Josiah Spode, known for his role in the Industrial Revolution, established his pottery business in 1774. The Spode Museum collection includes a ceramics collection representing 200 years of Spode manufacture, ranging from spectacular pieces made for Royalty, the Great Exhibitions and the very rich to simple domestic wares.
Burleigh Pottery (also known as Burgess & Leigh) is the name of a pottery manufacturer in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. The business specialises in traditionally decorated earthenware tableware. [1] [2] [3] The factory is a nineteenth-century grade II* listed buildings known as the Middleport Pottery.
The museum is located in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. It is also included in one of the regional routes of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. [2] Despite the name of the museum, it is a complex of buildings from two works, the Gladstone and the Roslyn. [3] The protected features include the kilns.
B arts (Beavers Arts ltd) is a participatory arts organisation based in Stoke-on-Trent. [1] When it was founded in 1985, it was the UK's first female-led outdoor arts company. Originally named Beavers, it was established to "work together as women … at women’s festivals, in women’s centres, community centres, schools, refuges – anywhere ...