Out and about

Posted on January 12, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Balcony, Etruria, Industrial museum, Jessie Shirley's bone and flint mill, Photo, Silver birch, Stoke-on trent, Trees, View2 Comments

Silver birches in front of the chimney at Jessie Shirley’s bone and flint mill in Etruria, Stoke on Trent today. It was very grey and overcast, but the silver white bark of the trees shone out like exclamation marks against the industrial museum background. It’s funny how your eyes accommodate and let more light in than the camera does. To me they really stood out. But they photo is really dull, maybe I should edit it?

I’m thinking of doing some volunteering in the near future to get out and about more, Etruria seems like somewhere to start. x

View out

Posted on August 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Checking office, Colours, Day out, Etruria, Industrial museum, Life, Photo, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

The sun was shining through the checking office door at Etruria Industrial museum. The age of the building means that the walls are damp by the door. I like the red fire extinguisher and the blue in the corner add pops of colour that work with the browns and greens outside and the terracotta colour on the wall. The conduit pipes to the electrical switches give a hint of the buildings Industrial heritage. This office is set between two arms of the Trent and Mersey canal and the Cauldon arm of it. Inside are old bakalite telephones and other old fashioned equipment.

Reflected

Posted on September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cars, Chrome, Classic cars, Day out, Etruria, Industrial museum, Life, Poem, Poetry, ShinyLeave a comment

You’re so shiny

I can see my face

Reflected in your paint

Chrome work polished

To a mirror like surface.

Silver and Maroon,

With black fittings

You sparkle in the sunshine,

Drawing admiring glances

But watch out for

Sticky toffee fingerprints,

Icecream smears

A day out of dangers

To your paint work.

Which way?

Posted on December 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cauldon canal, Etruria, Industrial museum, Life, Museum, Pathway, Stoke-on-Trent, Trent and mersey canal, WalkingLeave a comment

A slightly confusing sign if you don’t know where the museum is. Turns out both footpaths lead to the same place, just by different routes. I don’t suppose it matters, but I think they should at least put an arrow on it for one way or the other. This is at the Etruria Industrial Museum, at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Falcon Pottery

Posted on November 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital filter, Gladstone Pottery, Industrial museum, Middleport pottery, Museum, Photo, PotteryLeave a comment

Used a photodirector filter to give this photo a bit of a twist. The building is semi derelict like many others in Stoke-on-Trent. They sit huddled in the landscape, settling gently into decay. Some owners of the old pot banks just leave them. Maybe one day to be renovated. At one stage there were plans to turn some of them in museums. But money doesn’t come this way very often. We are lucky to have places like the Gladstone pottery museum and Middleport pottery open for visitors, but so many more are falling down. A sad situation.

Waiting to be fired.

Posted on December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Canal, Etruria art, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Industrial museum, Lock 40., Pottery, Summit lock, Trent and mersey canal, Warehouse2 Comments

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Finished off my take on an Easter island head this week by hollowing it out and adding texture to the surface. It now needs to dry out so it can be fired. If the clay is wet the water in it will expand and may cause the pottery to blow up. It may not be an accurate representation of these wonderful statues, but I hope it is not disrespectful to model it?

We have started to meet on Thursday mornings at Etruria rather than in the evenings, this means we are there at the warehouse on the Trent and Mersey canal by summit lock 40. From 10am to 12 noon.

* note, we are meeting on an ad hoc basis at the moment dependant on the weather.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Industrial museum