Head south for Trentham Gardens (open Complete your trip with a visit to World daily, ticket prices vary, car park on site); of Wedgwood in Barlaston (open daily, occupy the hour-long bus ride or 20 car park on site, free entry to museum, see minute car journey there by downloading website for more details and prices): this and listening to Wedgwood and the award-winning visitor attraction is home War (available on www.appetitestoke. to the UNESCO recognised V&A museum co.uk), an audio artwork drawn from the collection, one of the most important in the Wedgwood Museum’s archive of letters world, spanning from 1759 to the present sent by family members during World War day. You can also book a guided Museum One. Trentham Gardens itself boasts Italian tour to discover even more (guided tours 45 Gardens revived by a Chelsea Flower Show mins, bookable on arrival, £5). From 1 August ATTRACTIONS Gold Medallist, a mile-long, Capability to 23 November is a special World War I Brown-designed lake - complete with eco- exhibition Etruria at War: The Impact of friendly catamaran Miss Elizabeth (every the First World War on Wedgwood and its EVENTS hour, five days a week in summer, £2) - a Employees (10am-5pm, free). Here too you meadow with giant dandelion sculptures, can take a Factory Tour (Monday - Friday, atmospheric woodland trails and much guided tours 45 mins, bookable on arrival, more. The Italian Garden Tearoom serves last entry 3pm. £10 adults, £8 concessions, FESTIVALS traditional Staffordshire oatcakes and under 12s free). See the production process just outside the gardens is Trentham and artisan skills up close, get creative in the Shopping Village, a complex of timber Decorating Studio and Master Craft Studio EXHIBITIONS lodges housing 77 shops and 18 cafés. where you can create your own design, and All in all, Trentham Gardens present an have a go at pot throwing. Indulge with unforgettable end to a day in The Potteries. afternoon tea in the Wedgwood Tea Room AND activities and some retail therapy in the Flagship Store If you’re staying over, options for the and Factory Outlet. evening include food at Trentham Shopping happening across Village or journeying on to Barlaston for W o rld local-born actor Neil Morrissey’s excellent o Appetite, Museum of the Moon • Photograph by Carolyn Eaton f W e the city IN pub Plume of Feathers. Alternatively, take d 2018 g w a trip back towards Stoke: The White Star o o Em d m a pub here has been commended for its B r Summer in Stoke-on-Trent id g local beers. Bar, cafe and music venue the e w a t QUARTER can be found in the centre of e r Highlights Itinerary F a neighbouring town Hanley, offering home- c t Spend a day or more exploring Stoke-on-Trent, o r style bistro food, award-winning tea and and you’ll discover award-winning museums, y coffee and a varied drinks menu. exceptional gardens, world-renowned collections and the largest ever find of Anglo- Saxon treasure. Made up of six distinct towns, For a journey across the city to commemorate the Stoke-on-Trent is a place united by a unique fallen heroes of World War I as part of Stoke-on-Trent history, unrivalled modern industry and an Remembers visit… ambitious future: known affectionately as ‘The www.stoke.gov.uk/stokeremembers Potteries’, the city grew from humble origins to become home to world-leading manufacturing For more ideas, attractions, seasonal events and techniques, champion of revolutionary ideas recommendations across all six towns and parks explore… such as the Trent and Mersey Canal and www.visitstoke.co.uk/summer producer of quality wares that continue to be exported globally. Designated the World Capital of Ceramics, Stoke-on-Trent has a proud legacy visitstoke @visitstoke @visit_stoke VisitStoke ry tte Po of making art from the earth. There’s so much Middleport to do and see, we’ve suggested a whole host A of options; pick and choose your own route, or p p e Summer in Stoke-on-Trent is funded through the t make a plan to stay for longer... it e Stoke-on-Trent Cultural Destinations programme , B funded by Arts Council England. ig F www.visitstoke.co.uk/summer e as t F es tiv al 2018 M idd lep or t P ot te ry F a c t o MUST-SEES THE ITINERARY r y S h o p Middleport Pottery Stoke is your starting point for the day. A five to ten minute walk from The ST6 3PE Home to the main railway station, the Built in 1888, Middleport Pottery still Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is the practices pottery techniques used nowhere town also plays host to an extraordinary Emma Bridgewater Factory (open daily, else in the world, as well as boasting a Grade installation by artist Luke Jerram called car park on site) - where you can take part II listed Bottle Kiln and Steam Engine on the Museum of the Moon at King’s Hall in the decorating studio (advance booking, its award-winning site. Open daily, £5.50 (21-29 August, free entry, special events 1hr 30min slots 9.30am-2.45pm, £2.95 fee adults/£4 conc., under 5s and carers free. will be ticketed): measuring seven metres plus price of piece) or follow a factory in diameter, a moon featuring detailed www.middleportpottery.org tour (advance booking, 1hr, 10am, 11am NASA imagery of the lunar surface and 1.30pm except Fridays, adults £2.50/ Emma Bridgewater Factory is accompanied by a surround sound ST1 3EJ composition by BAFTA and Ivor Novello under 16s free) to discover the traditional Discover the traditional skills and award-winning composer Dan Jones. skills of the jiggers, jolliers, fettlers, casters craftsmanship that goes into making 1.3m Evoking lunar inspiration and cultural and decorators who work here; each of the pieces of Emma Bridgewater pottery every myths, the installation is paired with a 1.3m pieces of pottery produced annually rt Gallery & A year in an atmospheric Victorian factory. series of special moon-inspired events - by the factory still passes through 30 m eu us Open daily, factory tour £2.50 adults/under hands before being sold. Stop for a home M see www.appetitiestoke.co.uk/whatson s e 16s free. ri for details and opening times. Just round cooked lunch in the café, where the recipes e t t www.emmabridgewaterfactory.co.uk o the corner is the newly opened, Alice in P are often inspired by Emma Bridgewater e ry h o Wonderland-inspired The Rabbit Hole T t herself, or take tea and cakes in the c a The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery F Tea Room; serving up afternoon tea in a er factory’s secret walled garden. at ST1 3DW gew storybook setting, it’s well worth a visit. Emma Brid Visit the world’s most significant collection of Staffordshire ceramics (including nearly Fans of BBC Two’s The Great Pottery Next stop is Hanley, a short bus ride from Throw Down will recognise the next 300 frog mugs) and the £3m Staffordshire the station, where you’ll findThe Potteries Hoard, the largest ever find of Anglo-Saxon destination: a short bus ride or short car Museum & Art Gallery (open daily, free journey away is Middleport Pottery (open treasure. Open daily, free entry. entry, pay on arrival at car park opposite), www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag daily, £5.50 adults/£4 conc., no on-site home to the most significant collection Tre parking - follow signs for temporary car nth am of Staffordshire ceramics in the world - G Trentham Gardens a parking, Aug-Sept), an award-winning, rd including 667 cow creamer jugs - galleries e ST4 8JG n Grade II* listed site that was originally s Find real poppies in vast contemporary covering natural science, archeology meadows, follow the famous fairy sculpture and fine art, as well as the superlative built in 1888, and has recently undergone trail at Trentham Gardens. Indulge yourself at Staffordshire Hoard. Discovered by a metal a £9 million restoration by The Prince’s Trentham Shopping Village, with 77 timber detectorist in 2009, the largest hoard of Regeneration Trust. The factory tour here lodges housing shops, 19 individual eateries Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found was (advance booking, 1hr, 11am and 1.45pm and a hotel. Open every day. once the possession of kings; it amounts Monday - Thursday, 10.30am Friday, £9.50 wood edg www.trentham.co.uk to over five kilos of gold and one and a adults/£8 conc.) reveals every stage W of d rl half of silver, features over 3,500 garnets of production, showcasing handcraft o W World of Wedgwood from as far away as Sri Lanka, and includes ST12 9ER methods used since the 1880s and the pieces over 1,300 years old. The museum Uncover over 250 years of British steam engine that once powered the entire is also holding a special display “Made by craftsmanship and the UNESCO recognised factory - while the shop offers up the the Girls of Staffordshire…”: Ceramics from V&A collection as well as taking the award world’s largest collection of local Burleigh World War I (27 July - 22 August) featuring winning Factory Tour (Monday - Friday), pottery. When visiting Middleport, look objects from its collection “Made by the indulging in the centre’s creative studios, the out for special activities in nearby Burslem Wedgwood Tea Room and Flagship Store. Girls of Staffordshire during the Winter of 1917 when the Boys were in the Trenches such as the Burslem Summer of Art (28 Open daily, free entry to museum.