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Visit us at: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Bethesda Street City Centre Stoke-on-Trent ST1 3DW 01782 236000 www.visitstoke.co.uk for special offers and more information Discover more at ceramicstrail.co.uk stokesculpturetrail.co.uk Twitter.com/visitstoke Facebook.com/visitstoke Discover a different view of Stoke-on-Trent see The trail by cluster and enjoy the city’s Sculpture Trail featuring a collection of important, imaginative and fascinating public artworks, all with a unique Tunstall 05 story to tell. You can spend the whole day following the trail or navigate each bite sized Burslem 08 cluster at your leisure. It’s been designed so you can explore the artworks in geographical city centre 11 areas or dip in and out of three distinct themes: Inspirational, Great People and Local History. Stoke 20 Fenton 25 Longton 26 Trentham 27 02 | STOKESCULPTURETRAIL.CO.UK stokesculpturetrail.co.uk | 01 Tunstall Cluster see The trail by theme Historians have found that iron was being produced in tunstall as far back as 1280. tunstall stands on a ridge surrounded by old tilemaking and Great people inspirational brickmaking sites, some of which probably date COLIN MINTON CAMPBELL 23 AFLOAT 06 back to the late middle ages. HENRY DOULTON 09 A MAN CAN’T FLY 20 JOSIAH WEDGWOOD 16/21 ANOTHER GIFT 22 LANCE-SERGEANT JOHN DANIEL COMMUNITY MOSAIC 22 ‘a great BASKEYFIELD VC 18 GOLDEN 05 R J MITCHELL 15 HAND WITH CHRONOS 21 sculpture ROY SPROSON 08 HER HEAD 11 to visit day SIR STANLEY MATTHEWS 11/24 LIGHT OF THE CITY 15 or night’ LOVE TIES 18 Local History THE MAYFLY THRONE 10 ANGEL OF VICTORY 09 MOTHER AND CHILD 14 INDUSTRIES OF THE POTTERIES 14 THE NEEDLE 25 MAN OF STEEL 17 THE PACE OF RECOVERY 19 PITHEAD WHEEL 12 PERSEUS AND MEDUSA 27 sculpture will be internally lit so that THE STAFFORDSHIRE SAXON 16 POTTERIES PYRAMID 06 Golden it appears to glow at night. Lines and STILL LIFE 26 PRIVILEGE 19 (the flame that never dies) marks engraved on to the column have been informed and inspired TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIES 10 RIBBONS OF LIGHT 23 Sculptor: Wolfgang buttress by the Sutherland Map which is UNEARTHED 17 SPIRIT OF FIRE 13 The title references the golden located in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. The map clearly shows WAR MEMORIAL 08/13 TREE STORIES 12 flame that sprang from the original Goldendale ironworks which the layers of geological strata that ZOOMORPHIC MOUNT 26 TUNSTALL SHARD 07 previously lit the Chatterley Valley – make up the Chatterley Valley. On a locals for many years referred to site visit the artist found a piece of iron from the old works which has a CITY MAP 30 the iron works as “the flame that never dies”. remarkable resemblance to a human heart. This has been suspended The new, elegant artwork stands at in the interior of the artwork to 20 metres tall. The piece is made represent the beating heart of the key from corten steel which alludes to community. the steel previously manufactured in the area. Over 1,000 hand blown Location Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Council. glass prisms are attached to the Chatterley Valley, Chatterley Road, Whilst every effort has been made to Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ensure that the information contained in column of the artwork. Each one the brochure is correct, Stoke-on-Trent contains a memory or wish written near ST6 5JA City Council cannot accept responsibility Map reference for any inaccuracies. Please note that due on handmade paper by hundreds of number to the locality of some of the artworks the people in the local community. The postcodes that are given are approximate. 01 Photography © jacksonhammond.co.uk 04 | STOKESCULPTURETRAIL.CO.UK stokesculpturetrail.co.uk | 05 potteries pyramid Sculptor: Ondre Nowakowski A ten metre tall, stainless steel pyramid with the image of a bottle oven kiln subtly worked into the sides. The sculpture is a strikingly hard-edged modern statement whilst at the same time acknowledging and celebrating the city’s industrial past. Location Roundabout on the A527 Reginald Mitchell Way, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, near ST6 5JA 02 tunstall shard Sculptor: Robert Erskine This sculpture is inspired by a shard of pottery from Roman times that was found in an underground oven when the former Wedgwood Afloat pottery site in the city was being Sculptor: Martin Heron redeveloped. Reflecting the city’s ongoing reputation as The Potteries Stainless steel sculpture created for the artwork is 300 times larger than the Westport Lake nature reserve. the shard it is based upon. It shows Designed in consultation with local the fingerprint that was found on people, the artwork is designed in the original piece of Roman pottery response to the site which is the which is thought to date back largest body of water in the city with hundreds of years. a woodland conservation area and wildflower meadow. Tunstall Shard stands 35ft high by 27ft wide and weighs 7.5 tons. Location Westport Lake, Westport Lake Road, Location Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 4RZ Jasper Square, Scotia Road, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 6AT 04 03 06 | STOKESCULPTURETRAIL.CO.UK stokesculpturetrail.co.uk | 07 burslem Cluster Burslem, known as the Mother Town of Stoke-on- angel of victory Trent is packed with architecturally interesting Sculptor: G. T. Robinson and important buildings. Locally pronounced This life size gilded copper angel “Boslem” not “Burslem” the area would have been holding a laurel wreath stands on top of the old Town Hall in Burslem. familiar with Josiah Wedgwood, Charles Darwin, The angel was immortalised by Arnold Arnold Bennett, Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister of Motörhead, Bennett in his books ‘Clayhanger’ and darts legend Phil Taylor and home grown pop star ‘The Old Wives Tale’ where Burslem is and recording artist, Robbie Williams. thinly disguised as Bursley. The Angel is also rumoured to have been the inspiration for Robbie style decorated stone mouldings at Williams’ hit song, Angels, in 1997. the rear and sides of the memorial with a half statue soldier figure at Location the front set in a recessed panel with Burslem Town Hall, ‘1914 - 1918’ inscribed above. Market Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 3AG 07 An inscription on the south side reads: ‘They died that others might live’ and a further inscription on war memorial another side reads: ‘Burslem’s memorial to her heroic sons. Sir Henry Sculptor: C. Wallett 1914 - 1918. 1939 - 1945’. Doulton There are two steps at the base of the Location structure upon which six stone flower Swan Square, Burslem, 1820-1897 urns stand. There are floral wreath Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 2AE Sculptor: Colin Melbourne Sir Henry Doulton was a pottery 05 manufacturer and one of the key members of the Doulton family who developed the Royal Doulton Roy Sproson pottery firm. Sculptor: michael Talbot The statue depicts Sir Henry Doulton wearing formal Victorian dress; his Roy Sproson spent his entire left hand holds his top hat, his right professional career at Port Vale hand his umbrella, and he wears a amassing a club record 837 flower in his button hole. The pedestal appearances between 1950 and with its chamfered stones is quite 1972. The statue was unveiled on 17 unusual. November 2012 as a result of nearly a decade of fundraising from fans. Location Market Place, Burslem, Location Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 3AG Hamil Road, Burslem, 06 Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 1AW 08 08 | STOKESCULPTURETRAIL.CO.UK stokesculpturetrail.co.uk | 09 City Centre Traditional The City Centre (Hanley) is the main shopping area Industries in Stoke-on-Trent and is home to the city’s cultural Sculptor: John McKenna quarter. Enjoy great theatres and art venues including A triptych celebrating the three the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery where you can traditional industries of Burslem; brick see the world’s greatest collection of Staffordshire manufacture, mining and pottery.