There's more to running a complex museum like Gladstone P Museum than a guy from Potteries Museum Collections popping in to open the front door to a The Great Pottery Throw Down film crew during the winter. A #museum doesn't work like that Stoke-on-Trent CC Abi Brown OBE Lorraine Beardmore thetheatretwittic.com/2022/01/10/cal…

With Gladstone P Museum in the news so much recently (for the wrong reasons) I just had to get this done. Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton Acrylic on canvas, 28x28 cms incl. frame artfromtw.com terrywoolliscroft.etsy.com

Tonight the magnificent work of art that is Tilda Swinton is on BBC Front Row. Plus leader of Stoke City Council and @AlasdairBrooks discussing controversial The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery & Gladstone P Museum budget cut plans, & NDAs in casting. 715pm R4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

What is Stoke-on-Trent CC doing? Gladstone P Museum has won 23 awards in last 5 years. Now they plan to axe all its current staff & close the museum to tourists & school kids for 5 months a year. Incomprehensible. artsindustry.co.uk/feature/2766-t… …dstonepotterymuseumstory.blogspot.com/p/awards.html

THREAT TO THE PRIDE OF THE POTTERIES Press Release issued by PMAG Friends on 14 January 2022 Friends’ Chair Peter Wilson says “We are appalled by these proposals, having seen no evidence to support them”. “The loss of specialist ceramics curators will be catastrophic”

Leading figures in the museum, art & craft worlds are reacting to the proposed cuts & restructuring of The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery & Gladstone P Museum by Abi Brown OBE & Stoke-on-Trent CC with concerns that crucial expertise will be lost. craftscouncil.org.uk/stories/expert…

Please read our detailed response to the Stoke-on-Trent CC Museums Budget Proposals: bit.ly/Budget_Response We fear the proposed cuts will have an “immediate, significant and long-lasting impact”. Thank you to all our members who contributed to the response.

Cutbacks at #Stoke! Our chairman has sent a response to Stoke Council: decorativeartssociety.org.uk/news/action-ur… If you've enjoyed The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery or Gladstone P Museum, please support them & send your views to [email protected]

I'm pretty sure Abi Brown OBE, Lorraine Beardmore & Stoke-on-Trent CC haven't a clue what award-winning curatorial work already goes on Gladstone P Museum - here's a reminder. 2021 Collections Trust Award - celebrating unsung achievements of those who manage the collections. @profdanhicks

A great evening last night celebrating local tourism at the #enjoystaffsawards with Visit Staffordshire Gladstone won Bronze in the Best Small Visitor Attraction and Accessible and Inclusive Tourism categories and was Highly Commended for Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable Tourism

Highly recommended 👍

Highly recommended 👍

Garfield Pottery, Longton. At one time owned by Alfred Clough. The chap who fired a bottle oven with coal for the very last time. 1978. For Gladstone P Museum More here > lbof1978.blogspot.com

20 years ago, 30.03.02, the new 'Flushed with Pride' gallery opened Gladstone P Museum. I made the opening speech for the sponsors*. Lord Mayor Bill Austin, cut the ribbon. This year Stoke-on-Trent CC deleted all staff roles & will close museum for 5 months every year. Shocking

*Main sponsors were - Twyford Bathrooms (my employers at the time) Armitage Shanks and the Thomas Crapper Company. …dstonepotterymuseumstory.blogspot.com/p/2000s.html Now seems pretty obvious that today's councillors have no interest in the city heritage, its tourism offer, or its employees

Fabulous ❤

PMAG Friends Gladstone P Museum Stoke-on-Trent CC Remains to be seen how they will open at all with all existing staff redundant (apart from 4 in the teashop)

Celebrating #PotBOD #OTD 29 August Bottle Ovens & Kilns of the Potteries Terry Woolliscroft

Potbank Dictionary now immortalised in the only way it should be😉On bone china mugs made by @FoleyPottery in Stoke-on-Trent👌 First 2 today Illustrations by @PamWoolliscroft Definitions by Terry Woolliscroft etsy.com/shop/terrywool… etsy.com/uk/shop/FoleyP…

They talk about wedging on The Great Pottery Throw Down but what is it? The latest addition to the Potbank Dictionary mug portfolio has the answer! Fine bone china made entirely in Stoke by @FoleyPottery Available etsy.com/uk/shop/FoleyP… #PotteryThrowdown artfromtw.com