Running all weekend, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd June, 10am to 5pm daily. Lots to see and do - historic canal boats, street food & beer, live music & entertainment, stories & entertainment, working forge, craft demos and stalls, mill in steam, games & activities.
Join us on short tours to see most of the remaining bottle-ovens in Longton - and plenty of other interesting buildings in the town - on board a 1978 PMT double-decker bus. Information will be provided on-board by your 'conductor'. Tours are free and will leave Gladstone at 10.30am, 12noon, 2 and 3.30pm.
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Join Stoke-on-Trent City Archaeologist Jonathan Goodwin for an exploration of bottle ovens from the ground up. This event is free and normal admission applies to the rest of the museum, 11am, please call 01782 237777 to book a place. |
Do you want to know what ousters, bungs, bonts and baitings are?
Kathy & Paul Niblett were members of the organising team for the last firing of a bottle oven, with coal, in 1978.
Their fascinating talk covers the organisation behind this significant event and the challenges it involved.
2pm, admission to this event is free and normal admission applies to the rest of the museum. To book your place please call 01782 237777.
Join us for a walk lasting approximately an hour to look at most of the remaining bottle-ovens in Longton, as well as a number of other interesting buildings. 2pm. This event is free, please call 01782 237777 to book a place.
Celebrate Oatcake Day at Gladstone with ‘Baxstuns, Sprittles and Oats’, a historical review of the origins and development of the Staffordshire oatcake, from the Pennine moorlands to the Potteries by Dr. Pam Sambrook, historian and author of ‘The Staffordshire Oatcake – A History’. 11.30am.
At 2.30pm join Ray Johnson MBE to celebrate all things oatcake -the king of foods in Stoke-on-Trent. Witness the ancient ceremony of the Grand Order of Oatcake Tasters as performed down the centuries - ending with the immortal “Oatcake Anthem”.
| Join us for an illustrated talk which highlights some of the significant buildings in Longton and their history. 2pm, admission to this event is free and normal admission applies to the museum. Please call 01782 237777 to book your place. |  |
In August and September 2018 Gladstone Pottery Museum will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Last Bottle Oven Firing.
At their peak over 2000 bottle ovens dominated the skyline of the City of Stoke-on-Trent. They created the very character of The Potteries. Today only 29 biscuit and glost bottle ovens remain standing and two thirds of those are within a five minute walk of Gladstone Pottery Museum.
Potteries Heritage Society will be setting up our display at this free event bringing together local residents, businesses, craftspeople, community groups and public services around the twin themes of the environment and the arts. The Lord Mayor and Ward Councillors will be visiting all the stalls, and entertainment will be provided throughout the day by local musicians, singers, dancers and sports performers. Children will have the chance to see and touch the Farm on Wheels small animals, and handle some of Christopher's Reptiles.
