Proud sentinels.
Four of the seven bottle ovens of the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent (The Potteries), Staffordshire, viewed from the museum car park.
The museum takes up the footprint of two former potbanks (pottery manufacturers), Gladstone Works and Park Place (Roslyn) Works, dating back to the 1860's. This site and its associated bottle ovens is grade II* listed.
It is thought that pottery manufacture on the site dates back to the late eighteenth century and developed through the Victorian era to give roughly the appearance that can be seen today.
Gladststone Pottery Museum's seven ovens is the main collection in the Potteries, Longton being the area that contains more than any other area locally. There are forty seven remaining bottle ovens and kilns out of around four thousand of which were in operation during the areas heyday. It's hard to imagine the atmosphere before the clean air act took effect.
This is the venue for the television programme "The Great Pottery Throw Down".
Proud sentinels.
Four of the seven bottle ovens of the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent (The Potteries), Staffordshire, viewed from the museum car park.
The museum takes up the footprint of two former potbanks (pottery manufacturers), Gladstone Works and Park Place (Roslyn) Works, dating back to the 1860's. This site and its associated bottle ovens is grade II* listed.
It is thought that pottery manufacture on the site dates back to the late eighteenth century and developed through the Victorian era to give roughly the appearance that can be seen today.
Gladststone Pottery Museum's seven ovens is the main collection in the Potteries, Longton being the area that contains more than any other area locally. There are forty seven remaining bottle ovens and kilns out of around four thousand of which were in operation during the areas heyday. It's hard to imagine the atmosphere before the clean air act took effect.
This is the venue for the television programme "The Great Pottery Throw Down".