Category: World Heritage

National Trust to Take Over Ironbridge Gorge Museums

National Trust Take Over Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in ‘Landmark Moment’ for UK Industrial Heritage

World Heritage: The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales

World Heritage Sites: The Ironbridge Gorge

The Ironbridge Gorge showcases the advancements made in iron production during the Industrial Revolution. It is a testament to technological innovation and reflects the social changes that began in the 18th century. In the gorge, there are industrial archaeological features. including mines, foundries, and workshops. They tell the story of an industrial valley.

Having viewed this video, North Staffordshire Heritage is asking why North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape is not a World Heritage Site.

Bygone Kidsgrove

The Trent & Mersey Canal and the Harecastle Tunnels will help to make North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape a World Heritage Site.

Stoke-on-Trent’s Remaining Bottle Ovens

About half of Stoke-on-Trent’s remaining bottle ovens are featured in this short video.

A bottle oven or bottle kiln was a type of kiln used in the ceramic industry. For many years, Stoke-on-Trent’s bottle ovens and kilns symbolised our industrial heritage.

Some were built in the late 18th century. Many were built in the 19th century and a few in the 20th. They remind us that Stoke-on-Trent was once the centre of the world’s pottery industry.

Only 47 bottle ovens are left. They are all listed buildings. Longton has more than any town in the Potteries. Stoke-on-Trent’s remaining bottle ovens will help to make North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape a World Heritage Site.

Biddulph Grange

One of the wonders of Victorian England, Biddulph Grange Garden is unique. The garden, created by James Bateman, is a major tourist attraction. It will help to make North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape a World Heritage Site.

It’s Friday again…

Another working week is almost over. It will soon be time to close the office for the weekend.

North Staffordshire Heritage welcomed the news that the Heritage at Risk Fund has given £1.5 million to help save Bethesda Church and Burslem’s Indoor Market.

We are still concerned about the future of the former colliery at Chatterley Whitfield.

If Chatterley Whitfield had been on the South Wales Coalfield, it would have been made a World Heritage Site many years ago.

It is not too late to save Chatterley Whitfield and make it an international tourist attraction. Regenerating the site and breathing new life into its derelict buildings would revitalise Tunstall, Burslem, Biddulph and Kidsgrove.

With imagination and initiative, Chatterley Whitfield can be the starting point of a North Staffordshire Tourist Trail. A circular trail linking Middleport Pottery, Burslem’s Historic Town Centre, Ford Green Hall and Biddulph Grange with Mow Cop, the Trent & Mersey Canal and the Harecastle Tunnels at Kidsgrove.

We hope you have an enjoyable weekend. Take care and keep safe. See you again on Monday.

Chatterley Whitfield

Chatterley Whitfield is a former colliery facing an uncertain future. We believe it merits World Heritage Site Status. Can this historic site be saved? Using the Comments section below, tell us what you think should happen to Chatterley Whitfield.

Aerial Views of Longton’s Architectural Heritage

This aerial view of Longton showcases its distinctive industrial landscape and rich architectural heritage. How many buildings and places featured in this video do you recognize? If you live or work in Longton, please use the Comments section below to share your memories with us. Let us know about your family and friends, the schools you went to, the games you played and your hobbies. Tell us about your first job and your working life.

Longton’s Architectural Heritage will help to make North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape a World Heritage Site.

The town Bennett forgot

Do you think Fenton is Stoke-on-Trent’s forgotten town? We believe Fenton’s town hall and Christ Church will help make North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape a World Heritage Site.

Fenton is called Stoke-on-Trent’s Forgotten Town

Can You Help Us?

We hope to show a series of film strips during Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary Year.

Schools in the six towns made these films in 1960. They were made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent’s creation.

North Staffordshire Heritage has the scripts for all these film strips. But, we only have one film strip, The Township of Tunstall, made by Highgate Secondary School.

The film strips about Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton and Longton are missing. If you can help us trace them, please email northstaffordshireheritage@outlook.com

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