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Pot Bank (Explored 19/2/17)
#7/52 (Different Point of View)
3 different views of one of the bottle kilns (or pot bank) at the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke on Trent.
Bottle kilns were where the clay items were baked at high temperature inside 'saggars' (the containers stacked in the lower right image), to turn them into pottery. They used to dominate the skyline in Stoke on Trent, but one by one, the factories closed down and were demolished.
The Gladstone China Works has been preserved as the last complete Victorian pottery factory in the UK.
A fascinating place to visit and discover more about the UK's industrial past. Quite scary to hear of some of the working practices...
Pot Bank (Explored 19/2/17)
#7/52 (Different Point of View)
3 different views of one of the bottle kilns (or pot bank) at the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke on Trent.
Bottle kilns were where the clay items were baked at high temperature inside 'saggars' (the containers stacked in the lower right image), to turn them into pottery. They used to dominate the skyline in Stoke on Trent, but one by one, the factories closed down and were demolished.
The Gladstone China Works has been preserved as the last complete Victorian pottery factory in the UK.
A fascinating place to visit and discover more about the UK's industrial past. Quite scary to hear of some of the working practices...