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Festival of Bottle Ovens O gladstone bottle flyer_Layout 1 11/05/2018 14:23 Page 1 e Summer Holiday Craft Activity – Mini Bottle Ovens e n Tuesday 21 August n o Festival of Bottle Ovens o t t s Make your very own mini version of one of the famous Gladstone bottle ovens in our Gladstone Pottery Museum s d drop-in clay workshop. 11am - 12.30pm and 1.15 - 3pm, £1 plus admission. d a a 19 l August and September 2018 l G G 78 The Worst Jobs in Children’s History Wednesday 22 August Working in a potbank amongst the bottle ovens was a difficult job Celebrate ’78 for children but was it the worst job in children’s history? Meet our costumed characters and find out some of the horrible and The last time a bottle dangerous jobs children used to do. Included with museum oven was fired in The admission, 11am - 4pm. Potteries In August and September The Little Longton Bottle Oven Bus Tour 2018 Gladstone Pottery Museum will celebrate the Saturday 25 August 40 th Anniversary of the Join us on short tours to see most of the remaining bottle-ovens in Last Bottle Oven Firing. Longton - and plenty of other interesting buildings in the town - on board a 1978 PMT double-decker bus. Information will be At their peak over 2000 provided on-board by your 'conductor'. Tours are free and will bottle ovens dominated leave Gladstone at 10.30am, 12noon, 2 and 3.30pm. the skyline of the City of Stoke-on-Trent. They created the very character Summer Holiday Craft Activity - of The Potteries. Today Bottle Oven Badge Making Wednesday 29 August only 29 biscuit and glost bottle ovens remain Celebrate the Annual Potteries Bottle Oven Day and create your standing and two thirds own bottle oven badge to take home in our drop-in workshop. of those are within a five Suitable for all ages and included with museum admission, minute walk of Gladstone 11am - 4pm. Pottery Museum. Gladstone’s Bottle Oven Bottle Oven Circuits Thursday 30 August Festival aims to bring to Make a working paper circuit in the shape of a bottle oven and connect it to make it life the rich heritage of the light up! Suitable for all ages and included with museum admission, 11am - 4pm. Potteries Bottle Oven with displays, activities, events and even opportunities to Silk Painted Bottle Oven Cards Friday 31 August meet members of the team who took part in the last Try painting on silk to create you very own bottle oven card to ever firing. take home. 11.30am - 3.30pm, included with museum admission and suitable for all ages and abilities. Photo courtesy of Brian Colclough There will be a full programme of events during September, please see our websites for more details www.gladstonepotterymuseum.org.uk or www.bottleoven.blogspot.co.uk gladstonepotterymuseum.org.uk bottleoven.blogspot.co.uk gladstone bottle flyer_Layout 1 11/05/2018 14:23 Page 3 Toby Jugg Wednesday 1 August Summer Holiday Craft Activity - Travel back in time and meet ‘Toby Jugg’, our costumed storyteller. Print the Potteries Wednesday 15 August Hear his tales about what it was really like to work in our bottle Use a variety of printing techniques to print your own Potteries ovens. Included with museum admission, 11am - 4pm. skyline complete with bottle ovens in our drop-in workshop. Suitable for all ages, included with museum admission, 11am - 4pm. Bottle Oven Circuits Thursday 2 August Make a working paper circuit in the shape of a bottle oven and connect it to make it Walk the Ovens Wednesday 15 August light up! Suitable for all ages and included with museum admission, 11am - 4pm. Join us for a walk lasting approximately an hour to look at most of the remaining bottle-ovens in Longton, as well as a number of other interesting buildings. 2pm. Bottle Oven Trail Tuesdays - Saturdays during August This event is free, please call 01782 237777 to book a place. Can you find the ceramic bottle ovens hiding around the site? Free gift and entry into a prize draw. £1 plus admission Go Wild at Gladstone Thursday 16 August Take part in some adventurous activities Willow Weaving Friday 3 and Saturday 4 August with the Staffordshire Wildlife Trusts team. Try fire-lighting in a safe and supervised See an expert willow weaver demonstrate their skill and create a environment and make a milk bottle replica of the baskets used to transport pottery around the factory. birdfeeder in our drop-in craft workshop. 11am - 3pm, included Included with museum admission, 11am - 4pm. with museum admission. Historic Buildings of Longton Wednesday 8 August Coiled Pot Making Workshop Saturday 18 August Join us for an illustrated talk which highlights some of the significant buildings in Longton and their history. 2pm, admission to this event Make your own decorative pot to take home with you by hand - is free and normal admission applies to the museum. Please call building and coiling clay. This hour and a half session includes help 01782 237777 to book your place. from our expert ceramicist,11am, £12 - includes museum admission. Please call 01782 237777 to book. It is possible to pay an additional £1.50 to have your pot fired. Oatcakes all Round! Saturday 11 August Celebrate Oatcake Day at Gladstone with ‘Baxstuns, Sprittles and Oats’, a historical review of the origins and development of the Staffordshire oatcake, from the Pennine Last Bottle Oven Firing Talk Saturday 18 August moorlands to the Potteries by Dr. Pam Sambrook, historian and author of ‘The Staffordshire Oatcake – A History’. 11.30am. At 2.30pm join Ray Johnson MBE to Do you want to know what ousters, bungs, bonts and baitings are? celebrate all things oatcake -the king of foods in Stoke-on-Trent. Witness the ancient Kathy & Paul Niblett were members of the organising team for the ceremony of the Grand Order of Oatcake Tasters as performed down the centuries - last firing of a bottle oven, with coal, in 1978. Their fascinating talk ending with the immortal “Oatcake Anthem”. These events are free and normal covers the organisation behind this significant event and the admission applies to the rest of the museum, please call 01782 237777 to book. challenges it involved. 2pm, admission to this event is free and normal admission applies to the rest of the museum. To book your Summer Holiday Craft Activity - Bottle Oven Tiles place please call 01782 237777. Tuesday 7 August Be inspired by our beautiful kilns and make your own bottle oven tile out of clay to Bottle Ovens - An Archaeologists View take home. 11am - 12.30pm and 1.15 - 3pm. £1 plus admission. Saturday 18 August Join Stoke-on-Trent City Archaeologist Jonathan Goodwin for an Silk Painted Bottle Oven Cards Friday 10 August exploration of bottle ovens from the ground up. This event is free and normal admission applies to the rest of the museum, 11am, Try painting on silk to create you very own bottle oven card to take home. 11.30am - please call 01782 237777 to book a place. 3.30pm, included with museum admission and suitable for all ages and abilities..
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