Learn about Stoke On Trent Pottery

The city was built on making pottery for many years. This has given it its well-known past and reputation for innovation, science and culture, art, and business. Pottery people should go to the city even today!

Factory tours, wonderful visitor centres and museums, and hands-on activities like the chance to experiment with pottery wheel are great ways to learn about the history and traditions of an age-old craft.

The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall and now the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.

What pottery do you see in Stoke?

Moorcroft, Wedgwood, Dudson, Emma Bridgewater, Burleigh, Portmeirion, Royal Doulton, Spode, Royal Stafford and Aynsley are among the city's most well-known producers. Aynsley is among the most well-known "World Capital of Ceramics" title has been awarded to Stoke-on-Trent because of its lengthy history and its bright future.

Stoke-on-Trent Pottery History

Josiah Wedgwood's groundbreaking work on pottery helped bring more than 300 potteries to Stoke-on-Trent in the early part of the nineteenth century, it was called "The Potteries" because it was the epicentre of British pottery manufacturing in the 18th century.

Burleigh, Britain's only continuously working Victorian pottery It was one of the most successful. Messrs