A day of being a tourist in Stoke
Monday 22nd June
Wet, wet, wet and windy. Decided to stay another night in the marina and get the washing and ironing from the weekend up together.
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| Spitfire |
Took a taxi to the museum and art gallery which was exceptionally good. Took in the pottery floor first - too many pieces to absorb but particularly fascinated by two personal collections that had been donated, they were 600+ cream jugs in the shape of cows(they could be adopted, shame Anna is too young to appreciate it) and a collection of 300 frog mugs that is a mug with at least one ceramic frog in it. Apparently people used to put live frogs in each other's beer to shock them so the potters caught on. The other thing I liked was an owl whose head was a cup and body a jug. It was found on an antique's roadshow they call it Ozzie was made in Staffordshire between 1680 and 1700.
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| The excellent potteries museum and art gallery |
As if this wasn't enough we went to the ground floor and saw a spitfire, the history of the 1984 miners strike and to top it all the Staffordshire hoard which was absolutely amazing - so intricate I can't imagine how it was made in those times.
Next to town centre where we got books and maps. We are liking Stoke a lot today! A Sainsbury's shop and a taxi back to the boat followed by a drink in the Toby carvery before dinner.
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