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Here are some other links which you might find useful: some are connected with Spode and others are about the history of the Pottery Industry in North Staffordshire... and others are just things I like...

In January 2022 I wrote a blogpost entitled 'Stoke-on-Trent Museums under Threat'. The public consultation period in relation to the cuts to the Stoke-on-Trent Museums is now ended as of 14 February 2022. I have deleted the blogpost. Links are now at the end of this page.

The Last Bottle Oven Firing in the Potteries 1978



Potbank Dictionary

A glossary of the Pottery Industry -- A Dictionary of Ceramics Terms -- Since 1976 and regularly updated




The Potteries Bottle Oven
Spode factory under W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd 1930s

'Collecting Spode China' from Country Living Magazine New York 2023 sadly no longer available online but kept as a reference

Dishy News 


Gladstone Pottery Museum Story

Stoke Museums: Gladstone Pottery Museum



Michelle Erickson @ the V & A Film: An Agate Teapot - How Was it Made? 


 Minton @ the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives



Nursery Gardeners

Old Bailey Online


ARTUK
Josiah Spode II (1755-1827)

Stoke Museums: The Potteries Museum &Art Gallery




Scandinavian Design (information on Eric Olsen)


Spode 'Onyx' Greyhound designed by Olsen from Mats Linder

Spitalfields Life

Spode Exhibition Online

Still Life Paintings with Spode by Jeanne Illenye

 Stoke-on-Trent City Archives where the Spode archive now lives

Sèvres Porcelain


 Transferware Collectors Club
Spode plate, Italian pattern, transfer printed in blue, handcoloured in red & gilded, pattern 2614 c1818
A History of Twyfords - sanitaryware manufacturer
A one-piece ceramic water closet  (WC) 'The Unitas' 1883
V&A Collections then click search

 Local History of Stoke-on-Trent (The Potteries)

Pam & Terry Woolliscroft

Spode ABC
A is for Aesops pattern
The Wind in the Willowware


Stoke-on-Trent Museums under Threat 2022

In January 2022 I wrote a blogpost entitled 'Stoke-on-Trent Museums under Threat'.

The public consultation period in relation to the cuts to the Stoke-on-Trent Museums is now ended as of 14 February 2022.

Here are a couple of links below from my old blogpost, now deleted 16 February 2022.

There is still a lot going on in support of the staff and the museums on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Keep it up!

THE PETITION: click UKChange if you would like to sign. By 16 February 2022 over 23,195 people have signed the petition against the proposals.

BUDGET DOCUMENT If you wish to read the budget document click here> and download Budget Book 2022/2023 as a pdf to open in your pdf reader (where it should be easier to search rather than opening online). Page 19 is particularly relevant.