The city archives would be moved to the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, an adjacent building with frontages to Bethesda Street and Broad street. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. The Alton Towers Resort is 10 miles (16 km) east of Stoke-on-Trent and is one of the United Kingdom's best known attractions. An early proposal for a federation took place in 1888, when an amendment was raised to the Local Government Bill which would have made the six towns into districts within a county of "Staffordshire Potteries".

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Machinery was decorated in famous EB designs and union jack bunting took away the darkness industrial areas can sometimes feel. Especially notable were those mills located in the valley at Goldendale and Shelton below the hill towns of Tunstall, Burslem and Hanley.In his novels, Bennett wrote about local events in the 19th century [148] and consistently changed all proper names and associations, thus Hanley became Hanbridge and Burslem became Bursley. The kiln room was baking hot where thousands of pieces of pottery ware were all lined up to be “cooked”. There are also smaller elements, including the independent Dazed Gallery [128] and AirSpace, the city's only contemporary art gallery, artist-led and artist run.