Potteries

Yesterdays Potteries Shopping Centre for Saturday piece on Potteries.

As well as being among the country's oldest public houses there's a venue less than an hour from the Potteries which is now regarded as one of England's best.

The First Potteries Chartist Festival will be held in Burslem's Market Place on Sunday, August 20, from 11am to 4pm.

A flood warning was issued for parts of the Moorlands while there were also alerts in and around the Potteries.

Among the casualties in 2024 have included Lids, USC and the Stoke City shop inside Hanley's Potteries Centre, as well as Farmfoods in Burslem following an arson attack, Just Finns in Stoke and the Harry Potter Shop in Longton.

And just over an hour away from the Potteries is Bleaklow Moors, near Glossop - dubbed 'the UK's Bermuda Triangle'.

However weather maps service WXCharts reckons North Staffordshire and the Potteries will see varying bouts of snow from Tuesday for much of the week.

Images have now emerged of a man being bitten and tackled to the ground by a police dog as he attempts to out-run the dog over a grass verge next to Potteries Way, where the A50 goes under the Town Road bridge.

Jewellery chain Pandora has closed its Potteries Centre store for a 'refit'.

Police have arrested a 26-year-old man after a protest at a Conservative Party fund-raiser in the Potteries.

Volunteers have issued a plea to the owner of a dog found tied up outside a Potteries police station.

A member of the public called police after being concerned about O'Sullivan's behaviour near the Potteries shopping centre in Quadrant Road, Hanley town centre, at about 14:15 BST.

Children employed at glassworks were regularly burned and blinded, and those working at potteries were vulnerable to poisonous clay dust.

In his novels the Potteries are referred to as "the Five Towns"; Bennett felt that the name was more euphonious than "the Six Towns" so Fenton was omitted.

Neil McKendrick Josiah Wedgwood and the Commercialization of the Potteries, p. 105. Every new invention that Wedgwood produced - green glaze, creamware, black basalt and jasper - was quickly copied.

Neil McKendrick Josiah Wedgwood and the Commercialization of the Potteries, p. 112. In 1773 they published the first Ornamental Catalogue, an illustrated catalogue of shapes.

Neil McKendrick Josiah Wedgwood and the Commercialization of the Potteries, p. 118. In 1767 Wedgwood and Bentley drew up an agreement to divide decorative wares between them, the domestic wares being sold on Wedgwood's behalf.

Neil McKendrick Josiah Wedgwood and the Commercialization of the Potteries, p. 120. Great care was taken in timing the openings, and new goods were held back to increase their effect.

Neil McKendrick Josiah Wedgwood and the Commercialization of the Potteries, p. 121. In 1764 he received his first order from abroad.

The potteries usually feature naïve Breton characters in traditional clothing and daily scenes.