Stoke-on-trent

Currently moored at Endon on the Caldon canal. Poor internet service for the past week. Raining? Of course, its chucking it down. Listening to BBC Stoke broadcasting from the Nantwich show. The announcer is trying his best to make it sound palatable but his references to people flogging thru the mud in wellingtons reveal that it is a mess. We have been touring the Potteries museums, very interesting. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruria,_Staffordshire
But first, some nature studies.


Healthy Hefiers

Quacker

Canada Geese with a stray white goose.

Excellent Museum and Gallery at Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent, This is a working "person" powered antique potters wheel

Spitfire

Beam Engine at Etruria Industrial Museum

Animal and whale bones and flint were milled into a slurry for making Bone China

Private collection of ceramic chimney pots at Burslem

Rare Bottle kiln at Burslem

Un-finished visitor centre at Westport Lake