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Middleport Pottery

An award-winning visitor destination in Stoke-on-Trent, Middleport Pottery's factory tours offer a unique opportunity to experience traditional handcraft methods unchanged since the 1880s. Other attractions include a fully restored steam engine, Burleigh factory shop, canal-side cafe, Victorian Offices, narrowboat Dane, workers' Bath House and Grade II listed bottle kiln.

Enter the World of Middleport Pottery

Harper Street

The regeneration of Harper Street further demonstrates the impact of successful regeneration projects to restore at-risk historic buildings and strengthen community links.

The regenerated terrace is now in active use. Re-Form Heritage has moved its offices to the first floor, the Middleport Pottery Collection has moved to its new collections store, the Middleport Matters community group is active in its new community hub.

‘How We Lived at Harper Street’ is the latest feature in the Middleport Pottery Heritage Trail. The first three houses in the terrace have been taken back to the 1950s, incorporating the Lodgekeeper’s House brought to life by the stories and items entrusted to Re-Form Heritage and our partners Past Present to create the exhibition. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, often very personal, and sometimes emotional. This is living history that is actively passed down from one generation to the next. We anticipate active engagement of a younger audience who will visit this embodiment of their parents’ and grandparents’ generation alongside the largely Victorian presentation of the Pottery buildings.

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Whitechapel Bell Foundry

In 2017 the historic Whitechapel Foundry was acquired and the use of these Grade 2* buildings for the making of bells, such as Big Ben, the Liberty Bell and the Bow Bells, ceased. Despite the historic listing the original equipment has now been stripped out in anticipation of the buildings being converted to a commercial use such as a boutique hotel or similar.

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