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Secret Museum | Shared Stories |
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 Winkhill Mill, Swan Street Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7RH
Friday 8th September - 10:00 to 15:00
Saturday 9th September - 10:00 to 13:00
Thursday 14th September - 10:00 to 15:00
Friday 15th September - 10:00 to 15:00
Saturday 16th September - 10:00 to 13:00
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Discover one of the city’s hidden gems! Explore an eclectic mix of historic and contemporary tiles, exquisite technical (re)drawings and archive film. This exhibition has been curated and created by artists Danny Callaghan (Stoke-on-Trent) and Craig Peebles (Edinburgh). It reflects an intensive creative collaboration driven by a shared love for tiles & architectural ceramics. Visitors will also be able to glimpse behind the scenes of The Firing Line, a manufacturer that still produces ‘dust press’ tiles using 100 year old technology and traditional techniques. We hope you enjoy this collection of new artworks, historical artefacts and shared stories. Winkhill Mill is a working factory. It has steps and trip hazards. Unfortunately, it is not suitable for people who use wheelchairs. Visitors must take extra care on entry. Free on-street parking is available on Swan Street (unreserved). |
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Booking: not required Website: ceramiccitystories.info |
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Secret Museum | Virtual Tour |
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 Winkhill Mill, Swan StreetStoke-on-Trent ST4 7RH
Friday 8th September - 10:30 to 11:30
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Join us for an informal virtual tour of one of the city’s hidden gems! Participants will be offered a guided tour of a new exhibition by the two artists that curated and created it; Danny Callaghan (Stoke-on-Trent) and Craig Peebles (Edinburgh). This eclectic display includes historic and contemporary tiles, exquisite technical (re)drawings and archive materials. Visitors will also get a glimpse behind the scenes of The Firing Line, a manufacturer that still produces ‘dust press’ tiles on site using 100 year old technology and traditional techniques. We hope you can join us for a special virtual tile tour! |
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Booking: Pre-book https://ceramiccitystories.info/events (Virtual Tour listing) Website: ceramiccitystories.info |
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Shirley’s 1857 Potters’ Mill in Steam, Stationary Engines and Classic Vehicles |
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Etruria Industrial Museum
 Etruria Vale Road, Etruria, Stoke-n-Trent ST1 4RB Saturday 9th September
Sunday 10th September
11:00 - 16:30
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| Saturday 9th September Vintage Stationary Engines and on Sunday 10th September Classic Cars and Commercial Vehicles. Mill in steam and operating 12.30 to 16.30 starting on the hour and operating as in Victorian times. Museum and Gift Shop and toilets in the Visitor Centre, Artist Blacksmith Demonstrations in the Forge, Tea Room. Attractive canal side location in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent. Entrance to Rallies, Museum and Mill FREE in support of Heritage Open Days. Donations Welcome. Guided tour of the Mill £5.00 per adult starting 15 minutes past the hour from 12.00noon. Young people under 16 free when with a paying adult. Limited access to the mill for those with mobility difficulties. | ||
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St Bartholomew's Church Norton-le-Moors |
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144-150 Norton Lane, Norton-le-Moors
 Stoke-on-Trent ST6 8BY Saturday 9th September
12:00 - 16:00
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| St Bartholomew's Church is a Grade II* listed building, with outstanding views towards Staffordshire Moorlands. Visitors to the belfry and the church will be able to learn more about its fascinating history. Our bell ringers will be demonstrating their skills and will encourage you to have a go. Inside the church, you will discover the wooden screens inspired by the 19th Century Oxford Movement, stained glass windows, high alter and choir stalls. Alter frontals and vestments will be on display. Refreshments available. | ||
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Booking: not required Website: facebook.com/StBartsNortonleMoors |
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Stoke Minster |
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Saturday 9th September 10:00 to 14:00 |
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Guided Tours of the Church & Churchyard to see Monuments & Graves of some well known local potters. Demonstrations of Church Bell Ringing plus the opportunity to "have a go on a bell rope" under expert supervision. Light refreshments will be available. Access to the Belfry involves climbing 32 steps up a spiral staircase. |
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Booking: not required Website: stokeminster.org |
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Stoke Minster
Tea with Arnold Bennett |
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Friday 15th September 13:30 for 14:00 start Fully Booked |
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Afternoon talk combined with archive screen sequences led by Ray Johnston. Arrival from 13.30pm tea and homemade cakes will be available to purchase. Talk will commence at 14.00pm concluding at 15.45pm. Middleport Pottery was built in 1888 as an efficiently-run ‘model factory’. Arnold Bennett features it in his first successful novel: Anna of the Five Towns as “The Providence Works” - a model of creativity and innovation. Join Arnold for a cuppa and a cake and re-create Anna’s tour of Middleport works in Bennett’s own words. |
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Booking: Pre-book https://middleport-pottery.arttickets.org.uk/middleport-pottery/2023-09-15-tea-with-arnold-bennett Websites: filmarchive.org.uk | arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk | re-form.org/middleportpottery |
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Middleport Pottery, Port Street 
Stoke-On-Trent, ST63PE
The Creation of the Trentham landscape - Brown and Barry and A N Other |
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Friday 15th September 19:30 |
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Jon Heal, a local historian, will give an illustrated talk on the evolution over centuries of the Trentham Gardens landscape we enjoy today. What visitors to Trentham Gardens see today is the result of centuries of change and the vision of the creative minds of geniuses like Capability Brown and Charles Barry, and others who may now be unknown. Travel back in time and see how the landscape has been sculpted, modified and transformed in a process that continues today. |
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Booking: not required Website: trenthamheritage.org.uk |
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Trentham Parish Church
The Evolution of the Heritage Development Trust |
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The Canal Warehouse at Etruria Industrial Museum
 Etruria Vale Road, Etruria, Stoke-n-Trent ST1 4RB Tuesday 12th September
18:30 for 19:00 start
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| The conservation and regeneration worlds are buzzing with talk of Heritage Development Trusts at the moment. But are they the latest fashion or part of a long tradition of local empowerment and community ownership? Potteries Heritage Society explores the evolution and ancestry of these trusts and finds some unexpected local connections. We will also look at the support being provided by the Heritage Trust Network and the Architectural Heritage Fund. | ||
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Booking: Pre-book: potteries.org.uk/evolution-HDT-book Website: potteries.org.uk |
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The History of Grinding |
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The Canal Warehouse at Etruria Industrial Museum
Etruria Vale Road, Etruria, Stoke-n-Trent ST1 4RB Wednesday 13th September
19:00
Thursday 14th September
14:30
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| Humans have been grinding materials to reduce the particle size for hundreds of thousands of years. It has been said that grinding mills are the oldest machines. For the last few thousand years methods have been evolving and with the industrialisation of the last few hundred years methods have rapidly changed and the science developed. Bernard Lovatt will review these methods and the science behind them with special reference to the developments of the last three centuries associated with the pottery industry. The talk will be followed by a tour Shirley’s 1857 Bone and Flint Mill (not in steam) which uses the pan grinding method developed in the 1730s and used into the 1970s. | ||
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Booking: Pre-book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-history-of-grinding-tickets-663750845647 Website: etruriamusuem.org.uk |
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The Last Bottle Ovens and Ceramic Kilns of Longton |
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Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
 Bethesda Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3DW
Saturday 9th September
11:00
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| To celebrate Heritage Open Days there will be an illustrated talk covering the bottle-ovens and kilns which survive in Longton. At the peak of the ceramic industry in the late 19th and early 20th century around 2000 bottle-ovens were located in the city, together with a large number of calcining kilns used to prepare raw materials such as flint and bone-ash and decorating ovens. We also had many beehive ovens used for firing bricks and tiles: sadly, not one of these survives. Most of the surviving bottle-ovens from the traditional ceramic industry in Stoke-on-Trent are located in Longton, the southern-most of the six towns which make up the city. | ||
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Booking: Preferred: to avoid missing out call 01782 232323 Website: stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag |
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