Museums · West Midlands
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Gladstone Pottery Museum — industrial museum in Staffordshire, England.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Longton · 0.5 km
- Paid entry
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Gladstone Pottery Museum is a museum in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1974. Address: ST3 1PQ. Wikidata describes it as: "industrial museum in Staffordshire, England". Coordinates: 52.9866°, -2.1317°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Gladstone Pottery Museum is a working museum of a medium-sized coal-fired pottery, typical of those once common in the North Staffordshire area of England from the time of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century to the mid 20th century. It is a grade II* listed building. The museum is located in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. It is also included in one of the regional routes of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Despite the name of the museum, it is a complex of buildings from two works, the Gladstone and the Roslyn. The protected features include the kilns. As there are fewer than 50 surviving bottle ovens in Stoke-on-Trent (and only a scattering elsewhere in the UK), the museum's kilns along with others in the Longton conservation area represent a significant proportion of the national stock of the structures. In 1976, the Gladstone Pottery Museum was awarded National Heritage Museum of the Year.
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Background
History
A pottery factory first opened on the site in 1787. It was run by the Shelley family who produced earthenware and decorated plates and dishes produced by Josiah Wedgwood in Etruria. The site was purchased in 1789 by William Ward who split it into two pot banks: the Park Place Works subsequently named the Roslyn works, and the Wards Pot Bank which was sold to John Hendley Sheridan in 1818. In the 1850s Sheridan had rented out the site to Thomas Cooper who employed 41 adults and 26 children to produce china and parian figures. By 1876 the Wards site had passed into the hands of R. Hobson and Co. and had been renamed Gladstone, after the politician William Ewart Gladstone. The factory opened…
Architecture
The museum is centred on the Roslyn pottery. It contains two biscuit ovens and two larger glost ovens. In addition are two enamel kilns. A tandem compound steam engine by Marshall & Sons, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire is in place but it is turned by an electric motor. The two muffle kilns came from elsewhere.
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- Coordinates
- 52.9866, -2.1317
- District
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Parish
- Stoke-on-Trent, unparished area
- Postcode
- ST3 1PQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South
- Established
- 1974
- Nearest railway station
- Longton — 0.5 km
- Official site
- www.stokemuseums.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q5566347 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Gladstone Pottery Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Bottle Kiln.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Gladstone Pottery Museum?
- Gladstone Pottery Museum is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode ST3 1PQ), in the parish of Stoke-on-Trent, unparished area.
- When was Gladstone Pottery Museum built?
- Built or established in 1974.
- How do I get to Gladstone Pottery Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Longton, about 0.5 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode ST3 1PQ.