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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 ...
The hotel quickly built an up a good reputation and, within a few years, was regarded as one most important hotels in Staffordshire. [ 2 ] When the County Borough of Stoke on Trent was formed in 1910, incorporating six towns, the hotel was chosen the venue for the inaugural meeting of the local council to avoid showing a bias by using one of ...
The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Tunstall and Stoke (which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent) in Staffordshire, England. [1] North Staffordshire became a centre of ceramic production in the early 17th century, [2] due to the local availability of clay, salt, lead and ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Middleport Pottery situated on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Stoke-on-Trent, was built by Burgess and Leigh in the late nineteenth century. The main building is a long two-storey, 34-bay brick and terracotta structure. [25] Former school house at Stoke Union Workhouse, Newcastle Road, Hartshill grid reference