Other websites for information and images about the Potteries and its Bottle Ovens
In no particular order
Potbank Dictionary for meanings of special Potteries Words here>
Spode History
Bottle Ovens - https://spodehistory.blogspot.com/p/spode-bottle-ovens.html
The Potteries.Org
The must-see site here>
An excellent site packed with information about the Potteries of Stoke-on-Trent. This Potteries Bottle Oven website refers The Potteries.org but only for educational and non-commercial use. Please respect their copyright.
The Potteries Heritage Society
An independent group of individuals who care about the towns and places that make up the City of Stoke-on-Trent, its history and its future. It is Stoke-on-Trent's Civic Society, one of a network of over 800 such societies in the UK. here>
Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology Service
Facebook page showing photos of a few of the bottle ovens excavated by Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology Service over the years. here>
The Potteries.Org
The must-see site here>
An excellent site packed with information about the Potteries of Stoke-on-Trent. This Potteries Bottle Oven website refers The Potteries.org but only for educational and non-commercial use. Please respect their copyright.
The Potteries Heritage Society
An independent group of individuals who care about the towns and places that make up the City of Stoke-on-Trent, its history and its future. It is Stoke-on-Trent's Civic Society, one of a network of over 800 such societies in the UK. here>
Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology Service
Facebook page showing photos of a few of the bottle ovens excavated by Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology Service over the years. here>
BBC Radio Stoke
Article here>
Article here>
Guardian Newspaper
The Potteries are, as JB Priestley said, curiously exhilarating. Dirty, shabby and 'extremely ugly', but intensely quirky. Article here>
World Heritage
Website here> and here>
Staffordshire Past Track
This is an excellent source of material managed by Staffordshire County Council's Archives & Heritage Service. This Potteries Bottle Oven website refers to Staffordshire Past Track but only for educational and non-commercial use. here>
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Unofficial site all about Gladstone Pottery Museum and its history. How it came to be and how its survives over 40 years since its creation. Packed with information here>
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| 3D walk through of the entire site https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=3Xvu7CWnE2k |
Historic England
Search Results for ‘Bottle oven ’ here>
The official name of Historic England is the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England. It was established in 1984 and until 1 April 2015 was commonly known as English Heritage. At that point its common name changed to Historic England and a new charity, officially called the English Heritage Trust, took the name of English Heritage.
World Heritage Encyclopedia here>
Staffordshire Potteries - Pottery Heritage in Staffordshire and connections abroad
This site was created as part of the resources and activities intended for non-vocational adult education in Stoke-on-Trent made by the author thanks to a three months Grundtvig Assistantship funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 (EU), hosted by Stoke-on-Trent City Council and carried out at Gladstone Pottery Museum, CoRE (Enson Works Memory Exhibition) and Middleport Pottery. here>
Phoenix Works 1961 Home Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWMhuJoRPU
The Glost House
Cafe/Bar in Longton here>
Bottle Kiln Walk - The Video
On September 20th 2009 Keith Meeson and a group of fundraisers walked to all surviving bottle kilns in the City of Stoke-on-Trent - the Bottle Kiln Walk. Ray Johnson, with three other cameramen, filmed the event and interviewed people taking part. This is a record of the event, but also includes rare archive film of bottle kilns in the days of coal firing and the last ever firing of a bottle kiln in 1978. more here>
Ian Pearsall's Photos of Bottle Ovens - 2016
here> http://www.thepotteries.org/pearsall/003.htm
Geograph
Information and photos of the Potteries bottle ovens and other bottle ovens around the UK
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gallery/bottle_ovens_10665/1
what3words - bottle oven locations
what3words is an app which gives every 3x3 square metre of the globe a unique three-word code. 3-word addresses are easy to say and share, and are as accurate as GPS coordinates. This simple and accurate way to talk about location makes it easier to tell others about the location of Potteries bottle ovens and kilns. Many thanks to Andy Perkin of the Potteries Heritage Society for researching and providing the what3words used on this site.
PENNY MAGAZINE 1843
A day at The Staffordshire Potteries, May 1843, Page 201Digitised by Google Books here>
DESCRIBING A 'POTWORKS' in the 1700s
Description extract 27 October 1767 for a site in Stoke rented by Spode & Tomlinson partnership: 'new erected hovell & three bays of building for the use & intention of a potwork…'Description extract 29 February 1776 for the Spode site:
'pot works, pot ovens, pot houses, work houses, ware houses, compting house, barns, stables, cow house, marl bank, and out buildings to the same belonging ... adjoining Madeley's Meadow…' Courtesy: Peter Roden research more here>