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Gladstone Pottery Museum

 
Description: A unique working museum allowing visitors to see how 19th century potters worked. Uttoxeter Road, Longton, ... more
Gladstone Pottery Museum ... Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 1PQ. Tel.: 01782 319232

Newest Review: ... interesting to do then I can heartily recommend the Gladstone pottery museum. Gladstone Pottery Museum, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 1PQ Tel: 01782 319232 Web: http://www.stoke.gov.uk/gladstone © copyright 2002, Mike Porter. ---------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- ------ UPDATE! We, me and my wife have just been to the Gladstone ... more

 ... Museum for the second time and I can say I am equally if not more impressed than first time I went. This time the Bottle ovens where open for you to see. You can actually go and stand inside the ovens and see what it was like to work in them. One of...more

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Crowned Review Gladstone Pottery Museum: Learn about Saggar Bottom Makers, WC Crapper and Slip (1169 words)
by mykp - written on 20/03/02 (Very useful, 614 readings)
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Its Saturday and I want to do something else, but where can we go. I know says wifey, wheres that brochure on Stoke On Trent we'll go to one of the potteries, but which one, there are so many in Stoke. After much discussion we ended up at Gladstone pottery museum. Why I hear you ask, well after looking at all the information on lots of the other potteries, we decided that we wanted to visit somewhere that depicted life in the potteries in the last century, what it would be like to work in a 19th century pottery and what conditions the people of the time had to endure. So off we go to Stoke, luckily its only 35 miles from our house ...

 

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