Hanley medium vase 10” Royal stafford pottery Stoke on Trent Approx height 15cm

Approx height 15cm

The castle was given to the National trust in 1937

Bottle kilns were typical of the industrial landscape mostly built in the 18th and 19th centuries their association with Stoke on Trent reflects the fact that the British ceramics industry was mainly based in the city

Height 22cm plus light fitting

Famed for the ceramic industry which began to boom in the industrial revolution

Hanley medium vase 10” Royal stafford pottery Stoke on Trent Approx height 15cmHanley one of the six towns that make up Stoke on Trent, showing the Man of Fire sculpture and the old Odeon cinema. Hanley was an important manufacturer of china and earthenware from the 18th century onwards, the kilns and smokestacks are seen working at full blast. The houses have a neat appearance and some are spacious and elegant, belonging to many of the most wealthy pottery china and earthenware manufacturers in the Potteries, also in the