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Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
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The Gladstone Story - this, the museum's history, was created to recognise the remarkable achievements of Gladstone Working Pottery Muse...
Gladstone Pottery Museum - take a virtual tour
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https://view.360picture.uk/GladstonePotteryMuseum Click this link for a remarkable 3D 'walk through' of the entire Gladstone Po...
Five magnificent bottle ovens in a Victorian pottery works
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Gladstone Works, Longton's complete Victorian potbank, was rescued on 25 March 1971 just as bulldozers were set to move in. It is now an...
The beginnings of Gladstone Pottery Museum
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1964 The germ of an idea In October 1964 Reginald G Haggar, the local water colour artist and art historian, wrote to the Pottery Gazet...
The Saggar Makers Bottom Knocker
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There is a certain fascination about that old potteries tradesman - The Saggar Makers Bottom Knocker. What on earth did he do?! Gladston...
The opening of the Flushed with Pride Gallery, March 2002
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Opening speech made by Terry Woolliscroft, representing the main sponsors Twyford Bathrooms, Armitage Shanks and Thomas Crapper. "Tha...
Beginnings
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1964 Gladstone and a germ of an idea In October 1964 Reginald G. Haggar wrote to the Pottery Gazette and Glass Trade Review with his vis...
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