I'm sure some of you are fans of The Great Pottery Throwdown. It is filmed not far from here at the Gladstone Pottery Museum.
I last visited here some 30 years ago, but it has been on our list to revisit for over a year, this time around.
It is simply brilliant.
I'll let the photos speak for themselves. The one thing they don't convey is how dreadful it would have been. There is a reason why they had an on-site Doctor. When unpacking the kilns that never went cold, the workers had to wear wet rags to avoid their skin peeling off. Think about that.
Or as the world of fauxstalgic SocMed groups would have it, "Better, simpler times"
Somewhere my Throwdown watching wife would like to visit, and I mean to accompany her.
ReplyDeleteThe Potteries in their heyday had a layer of smog above, and an early death was a given. The 'good old days' indeed!
I think we spent a good two hours here. Combine it with Middleport and Hanley Musueum and you've got a day out
ReplyDeleteCompared to my previous vist it felt that little bit more like a museum than a preserved workplace, but I guess that is inevitavle.