Industries of the Potteries
at the Potteries Museum, Hanley
 

Location: On the façade of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street
Sculptor: G H Downing
Designer: Frank Murrier
Architect: Wood, Goldstraw and Yorath
Unveiling: 1981
Commissioned by: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
 

 
Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley

 

 
Relief on the museum

 

Description: Made from over 6,000 shaped bricks, this long relief depicts images of the history and industries of the Stoke-on-Trent area. The images include a working mine with miners and pithead, and a pottery with kilns and potters at work. Transport is also included with a horse and cart carrying coal, and several canal boats in dock. The centre of the relief has a large motif that is formed by half a cartwheel, and a semi-circle of radiating circle of hands.   Background: The enlarged museum and art gallery was opened by Prince Charles.

Miners at the coal face

Pithead and horse and cart transport

 

The centre of the relief has a large motif that is formed by half a cartwheel,
and a semi-circle of radiating circle of hands.

 

potters at works

 

Loading the bottle kilns with the saggars

 

canal transport at the pottery works

 

 

Materials:

Part of work	Material	Dimensions
Relief	Bricks, various colours	4m high x 33m long approx