PM&AG Friends Events
Thursday 29 March 2012 at 7.00 p.m.
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley
Friends AGM followed by lecture at 7.30 p.m. by Miranda Goodby, Collection Officer, Ceramics at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery:
Emigrant Potters: How Staffordshire Workers founds the American Pottery Industry
In the 1840s, the Potters' Union recommended emigration to Wisconsin to its members as an alternative to the low pay and poor conditions in the pottery industry. The story of this failed project has often been told.
What is far less well-known are the stories of those Staffordshire families who emigrated independently during the 1840s to found their own factories across the USA. This lecture draws on the letters and accounts sent back by these emigrant potters to their families and friends in Stoke on Trent.
FREE event
Sunday 1 April 2012 at 2.00 p.m
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda street, Hanley
COSTUMES OF THE GILDED AGE (a costumed presentation by History Wardrobe)
To commemorate the Titanic's first and only voyage, History Wardrobe invite you back to April 1912 and take you on an evocative journey into Edwardian society, following the story of famous dress designer Lucille (Lady Luch Duff-Gordon)and the events of that fatal night.
Tickets: £7 Museum Friends £5 For further information, e mail museumfriends@stoke.gov.uk
Wednesday 18 April 2012 at 2.00 p.m.
Visit to the Dudson Museum, Dudson Centre, Hope Street, Hanley, ST1 5DD for guided tour and time to explore followed by tea and cakes.
Dudson are today known for their tableware made for the hospitality industry but this family-owned buisinesshas been in production for over two hundred years, making a wide range of earthenware, stoneware and china. The Dudson Museum, housed in a Grade II listed bottle oven is a treasure trove of over 1,000 items which show the quality and range of wares made by this successful firm.
Tickets (includes tour and refreshments): Friends £5.00 Guest £6.00. If you would like to book tickets, please e mail museumfriends@stoke.gov.uk
