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To celebrate 10 years since the discovery of the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon Explore the hidden treasures in gold and silver objects - the Hoard - we’re inviting you to explore the STOKE-ON-TRENT amazing treasures Stoke-on-Trent has & create your own to offer, and share your stories of visiting them by tagging #MyStokeStory on social media.

This guide outlines 20 key treasures in and around the city, ranging from the distinctive bottle ovens which stand proud at Gladstone Museum and Middleport Pottery, to the historic World of ; the famous spots; the beautiful Trentham Fairies and many, many more. What’s your Stoke story? We would love to see your photos and hear your stories of So why not make a day of it, or come back for these, and any new or undiscovered treasures in another visit, and see just how many treasures Stoke-on-Trent. Simply tag #MyStokeStory on your social you can experience in our wonderful city? media posts and you’ll be entered into a monthly prize draw to win tickets for up-coming events across the city.

For more information on any of these treasures, and lots more amazing cultural destinations in Stoke-on-Trent, please visit www.mystokestory.co.uk Visit • Share • Inspire

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#MyStokeStory SELFIE SPOT MIDDLEPORT POTTERY THE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY OTHER TREASURES

Steam Engine SELFIE Ozzy the Owl Nature Trail 1 SPOT A527 6 7 The First Day’s Vase 8 The Staffordshire Hoard 15 The William Boulton Steam Engine is Ozzy first came to the This vase was thrown on The Staffordshire Hoard is the Staffordshire University has a number of green the last example of a built world’s attention on an 13th June 1769 by Josiah largest collection of Anglo-Saxon and open areas rich in, and helping to support, engine in its original setting, making it of episode of the BBC’s Wedgwood while his gold and silver metalwork ever biodiversity, including approximately 40 hectares national importance to industrial heritage. Antiques Roadshow of playing fields and a dedicated Natural Heritage A50 business partner, Thomas found, comprising over 4,000 It was designed specifically for Middleport in March 1990. He was Bentley, turned the wheel. items. Items on display at the Nature Reserve of some 10 hectares - one of the in 1888 and powered the whole factory acquired shortly afterwards It commemorates the first museum include an iconic pectoral most important wildlife sites in the city. up to the mid-20th Century. by the museum to join the day’s production at the new cross, a stunning pommel cap, and 16 The Big Feast SELFIE M6SELFIE significant slipware collection Etruria factory and the start pieces of an elaborate Anglo-Saxon Appetite’s annual free festival of arts and SPOT 2 Dane J16 One of Britain’s last remaining wooden SPOT and is one of the museum’s of the Wedgwood & Bentley helmet - the grandest ever known performance, The Big Feast, returns to the streets most iconic objects. partnership. from the period. built narrow boats, Dane, is permanently A500 TUNSTALL B5051 of Stoke-on-Trent City Centre during August moored at Middleport Pottery following Bank Holiday weekend with the most jam-packed a £150,000 restoration. The 70ft narrow A53 programme yet including not one, but two UK boat is believed to have been used to BURSLEM SELFIE premieres and some seriously inspiring and SPOT transport china clay to the Potteries, entertaining acts. and other materials from the city to the The British Ceramics Biennial 2019 SELFIE North West. 17 2 Flushed with Pride Bottle Ovens Pottery Demonstrations This five week-long internationally acclaimed SPOT A34 CITY 9 10 11 3 Burleigh A permanent exhibition which There are now only 47 of See expert ceramicists festival returns to Stoke-on-Trent between 7 3 CENTRE tells the story of the humble these distinctive structures demonstrating traditional has been created at HANLEY September and 13 October, with an ambitious Middleport using traditional methods loo. Explore a pre-sanitation left in Stoke-on-Trent and pottery skills including casting, programme of exhibitions, site-specific installations, since 1889. View the beautiful showroom 9 6 7 8 slum, see what’s inside the Gladstone Pottery Museum flower making, events and hands on activities, all designed to giant toilet rolls, watch a film has the largest and best kept hand decorating and throwing to see Burleigh ware produced over the A52 celebrate and promote contemporary ceramics. years, walk around the original Victorian in a sewer and test your toilet collection. No #MyStokeStory pots. There is also the chance Emma Bridgewater SELFIE offices, and learn about the people and 8 knowledge with the Privial would be complete without a to create your own pottery 18 The beautiful sunny Victorian factory was SPOT events that shaped Burleigh pottery. Pursuits quiz. selfie! masterpiece to take home. NEWCASTLE 5 awarded two of VisitEngland’s top accolades 6 for ‘Best Told Story’ and ‘Quality Food & Drink’ in 2017. Head on a fascinating factory tour, try your hand at decorating a piece of your very TRENTHAM GARDENS A53 7 STOKE FENTON WORLD OF WEDGWOOD own unique Emma Bridgewater pottery or relax for lunch in the beautiful kitchen sat beside the Trentham Fairies SELFIE 4 SPOT 12 Figure Making iconic spotty Aga. We all know that fairies live at the Unchanged since it was pioneered by , the iconic bottom of the garden, and Trentham A50 Arnold Bennett Statue SELFIE is still to this day produced by hand using incredible craftsmanship. Witness how 19 SPOT Gardens is no exception! Take the fairy LONGTON this delicate work creates some of the most iconic pieces, including the famous The two metre high bronze sculpture of novelist, trail and keep your eyes peeled as you Wedgwood blue and white collections. playwright and essayist Arnold Bennett is walk around the beautiful mile long 9 0 located outside the Potteries Museum and Art lake, through the woodland, maze and A500 13 Mr Newby Gallery. Sit alongside, shake hands and have your M6 Mr Newby was a travelling salesman for Wedgwood in the early 20th Century gardens where the fairies live. J15 A50 photograph taken with Stoke-on-Trent’s most who scaled the country selling Wedgwood wares to old and new customers. On famous literary son. Perseus A34 5 A5035 his retirement in 1951 he was presented with a statuette of himself which is now in At the head of the Italian Gardens 4 5 the V&A Collection at World of Wedgwood. 20 Monkey Forest stands Perseus, at the moment he has Trentham Monkey Forest is home to 140 free- 3 slain Medusa, holding her head aloft! Josiah Wedgwood Plate Wall SELFIE roaming Barbary macaques. Walk the /4 of a mile 14 SPOT This iconic statue is a 19th Century The Josiah plate wall installation is inspired by Sir Joshua Reynolds’ iconic 1782 woodland path and see the monkeys living as they copy of Benvenuto Cellini’s original portrait of Josiah Wedgwood. The pixelate Josiah Wedgwood is approximately would in the wild, playing on the ground and in the 1550s masterpiece, and is one of 9 metres high and 6 metres wide and was created using over 1,100 Wedgwood trees - just don’t be surprised if they stroll on the the biggest free-standing bronze 20 plates. Take a picture and see how the pixels come together - a perfect path straight in front of you. sculptures in the UK. 2 3 4 #MyStokeStory selfie!