Join our friends at Etruria Industrial Museum for the Street Organ & Steeming Weekend, 4th and 5th August 2018. Art, pottery crafts and blacksmith demonstrations on site. Refreshments available.

As part of the Heritage Open Days festival, join Potteries Heritage Society and our partners for a pleasant morning cycle taking in 20 bottle ovens in the north of the city. Local experts and experienced cyclists will be on hand to guide you through the 12-mile route and to relate the history and heritage of these local icons.

Starts 09:30am, finishing back at Forest Park at around 12:30pm.

Booking essential: contact Mike Barr: barr48@btopenworld.com or 01782 616243

We're having a bit of a bash to mark the conclusion of our Revealing Voices project and thank all those who helped it happen. Drop us a line if you like to join us: info@revealing-voices.org.uk

Returing for Etruria Canals Festival, another chance to listen to excerpts from Arthur Wood's interviews with working boatmen and their families, recorded in the 1970s and 1980s and recently restored by the HLF funded Revealing Voices project. The event will take place in the warehouse adjacent to the top lock.

As part of Heritage Open Days, Potteries Heritage Society is teaming up with Etruria Boat Group to explore the historic narrow boats, Keppel and Lindsay from 6pm and, afterwards at 7pm in the wharf buildings, to listen to audio archives from the HLF funded Revealing Voices project. This year we concentrate on the extraordinary women involved in the canal haulage trade.

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.

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.

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.