Apr 20, 2024 | Architectural Drawing, Building conservation, Burslem conservation, Burslem Heritage
Moorland Road has some captivating buildings and if you look closely there are some wonderful details. Further down from the Big House (see previous post) at no. 72, you can find this beauty – The Court House. The full title is a mouthful – Burslem’s...
Apr 18, 2024 | Architectural Drawing, Burslem conservation, Burslem Heritage
I have an orange covered notebook that I began before we moved to Scotland – that’ll be six years ago this summer. I jot down some of those ideas that fly through my mind that I want to draw and I’ve noticed that most of them have been realised. Some...
Oct 26, 2021 | Burslem conservation, Burslem Heritage, urban sketching, Wedgwood Institute
I love finding links between things that have caught my eye in places past which connect me to the present. Here’s October, ‘the mature man collecting fruit’ seen high above the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem, Staffordshire. Today, up here in...
May 24, 2021 | Architecture, Burslem Heritage, Wedgwood Institute
Gemini is the sign of the zodiac from 21 May to 21 June and depicts the mythical twins Castor and Pollux, the names of the brightest stars in the Gemini constellation. Twin sons of Zeus and Leda, they appeared in both Greek and Roman mythology and were worshipped as...
Jan 25, 2021 | Architecture, Burslem conservation, Burslem Heritage, Wedgwood Institute
Sometimes titles for blog posts just pop into my head. This was one of them. It was something that Dad would say – that things ‘ticked by’. Here we are in a new year, and already into the last week of January 2021. Looking at these terracotta panels...
Jan 19, 2021 | Burslem Heritage, Listed buildings, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent Conservation area, Uncategorized
Aquarius of Burslem can be found high up on the Wedgwood Institute on Queen Street, Burslem in the first alcove dedicated to the month of January. This is the month that shows a woman holding her infant – the symbolic infant new year with hand held high, gazing...
