The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent: Photo Gallery II

Museum | Gallery I | Gallery II

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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

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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

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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.

Barefoot walking in Trentham Gardens

Day-out | Gardens | Barefoot walk

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.