Showing posts with label Staffordshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Staffordshire. Show all posts
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent: Photo Gallery II
Museum | Gallery I | Gallery II
If you have not read the story of our visit to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent please go here or click Museum link above.
The following photos were taken in the museum's Spitfire, Ceramics and Fine Art galleries.
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If you have not read the story of our visit to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent please go here or click Museum link above.
The following photos were taken in the museum's Spitfire, Ceramics and Fine Art galleries.
All photos were taken with an Olympus PEN E-PL5 micro four thirds camera attached with the pancake Panasonic Lumix G II 20mm f1.7 lens.
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent: Photo Gallery I
Museum | Gallery I | Gallery II
If you have not read the story of our visit to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent please go here or click Museum link above.
The following photos were taken in the museum's Staffordshire Hoard/Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, Natural Science, Archaeology and Local History galleries.
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If you have not read the story of our visit to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent please go here or click Museum link above.
The following photos were taken in the museum's Staffordshire Hoard/Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, Natural Science, Archaeology and Local History galleries.
All photos were taken with an Olympus PEN E-PL5 micro four thirds camera attached with the pancake Panasonic Lumix G II 20mm f1.7 lens.
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent
Museum | Gallery I | Gallery II
In summer of 2015, our family together with other friends visited The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent to get a glimpse of the city's cultural past. The museum was located in Hanley, one of the six towns of the federated city and admission is free. The museum houses Designated Collections - displaying fine and decorative arts, costume, local history, archaeology and natural history as well as the world's greatest collection of Staffordshire ceramics. It is also home to the Staffordshire Hoard.
As we approached the museum building we were greeted by the Light Source statue, which was created by the Scottish artist David Annand to celebrate 100 years of Stoke-on-Trent's federation as a city in 1910. The building itself is huge compared to our museum in Peterborough. Walking past the Light Source, we were then greeted by another work of art, the Industries of the Potteries, a long relief made up of 6,000+ bricks showing images of the history and industries of the city.
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In summer of 2015, our family together with other friends visited The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent to get a glimpse of the city's cultural past. The museum was located in Hanley, one of the six towns of the federated city and admission is free. The museum houses Designated Collections - displaying fine and decorative arts, costume, local history, archaeology and natural history as well as the world's greatest collection of Staffordshire ceramics. It is also home to the Staffordshire Hoard.
As we approached the museum building we were greeted by the Light Source statue, which was created by the Scottish artist David Annand to celebrate 100 years of Stoke-on-Trent's federation as a city in 1910. The building itself is huge compared to our museum in Peterborough. Walking past the Light Source, we were then greeted by another work of art, the Industries of the Potteries, a long relief made up of 6,000+ bricks showing images of the history and industries of the city.
Family day-out in Trentham Gardens
Day-out | Gardens | Barefoot walk
After several trips to Stoke-on-Trent to visit my wife's best friend from university and her family, we finally went to Trentham Gardens in the summer of 2017. And it was an amazing half-day out to remember!
We arrived around lunchtime, had a quick stroll at the Shopping Village but the children are having none of it. So, we grabbed a bite at the nearby Frankie & Benny's Italian restaurant. Then we went back and bought a Garden Day ticket as we plan to enjoy the glorious gardens this place is famous for.
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After several trips to Stoke-on-Trent to visit my wife's best friend from university and her family, we finally went to Trentham Gardens in the summer of 2017. And it was an amazing half-day out to remember!
We arrived around lunchtime, had a quick stroll at the Shopping Village but the children are having none of it. So, we grabbed a bite at the nearby Frankie & Benny's Italian restaurant. Then we went back and bought a Garden Day ticket as we plan to enjoy the glorious gardens this place is famous for.
The glorious Trentham Gardens
Day-out | Gardens | Barefoot walk
Trentham Gardens is very famous for, well... its gardens!
In our family day-out last summer 2017 to Trentham Gardens, we bought a Garden Day ticket as we plan to enjoy the glorious gardens this place is famous for. And there are quite a few to roam around but alas, so few time left that day as we arrived near lunchtime and have not had our lunch yet.
Following a map given to us at the ticket office we ventured out to see some of the gardens before we took a break at the Adventure Playground. After the children had a great time doing the painful Barefoot walk and getting lost in the Maze, we headed home but not before passing through the remaining gardens.
Trentham Gardens is very famous for, well... its gardens!
In our family day-out last summer 2017 to Trentham Gardens, we bought a Garden Day ticket as we plan to enjoy the glorious gardens this place is famous for. And there are quite a few to roam around but alas, so few time left that day as we arrived near lunchtime and have not had our lunch yet.
Following a map given to us at the ticket office we ventured out to see some of the gardens before we took a break at the Adventure Playground. After the children had a great time doing the painful Barefoot walk and getting lost in the Maze, we headed home but not before passing through the remaining gardens.
Barefoot walking in Trentham Gardens
My sons took on the Barefoot Walk challenge at Trentham Gardens last summer of 2017. I had to beg off, citing arthritic knees and gouty feet as a lame excuse.
Barefoot Walk is the UK's first barefoot trail. It is a tormenting array of textures like mud, bark, babbling streams, grass and pebbles that will test your feet. Not only is it fun, but it is also therapeutic; as you walk you will be improving your health and vitality, using the historic principles of the Bavarian priest, Sebastian Kneipp.
Garden flowers and bugs from Stoke-on-Trent
NOTE: Re-posted (with minor edits) from pinoyborian photography blog; originally posted on 27 August 2015.
The family went to Stoke-on-Trent to spent the last weekend. We stayed at the house of one of my wife's best friends in university days. They've since moved to their new house just opposite from the last one we've visited a few years back.
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