“When I started working at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, I was given a tour of the stores and instantly spotted watercolours by the same artist, the Rev. John Louis Petit.”
Month: May 2025
British Ceramics Biennial Returns
The British Ceramics Biennial returns to the former Spode Works in Stoke in September. The event lasts for six weeks, from 6 September to 19 October.
Free exhibitions and talks will spotlight international contemporary ceramic artists and introduce new talent by drawing on Stoke-on-Trent’s industrial heritage.
The Biennial’s Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Clare Wood, says, “It is wonderful to be back at Spode.”
Since 2009, the British Ceramics Biennial has been helping to transform and regenerate Stoke-on-Trent. It uses artists’ commissions, learning, and community projects to achieve its vision of making change through clay.
Lost Film Strips
Can You Help Trace Them?
North Staffordshire Heritage would like to celebrate the City of Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary by showing a series of film strips.
The film strips were made by local schools in 1960. They celebrated the 50th anniversary of the amalgamation of the six towns, which created the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent.
We have the film strip, The Township of Tunstall, made by Highgate Secondary School. The filmstrips about Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton and Longton are missing.
If you can help us trace them, please get in touch with northstaffordshireheritage@outlook.com
North Staffordshire Heritage 