Travel Reference
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A pair of bottle kilns in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent, restored in 2008 by a housing-estate developer
.
The Caldon Canal climbs away from Etruria Junction at this point. The Summit Lock at
Etruria, an earlier name for Tuscany, had a toll house and a wooden roof over the lock until
settlement reduced the headroom too much, door tops being at waist level. One of the locks
has a fall of 3.99m, one of the deepest narrow locks around. Next to the second of the three
Etruria Locks is the Etruria Industrial Museum, developed around the 1857 Jesse Shirley
Bone & Flint Mill and including the last-surviving steam potter's mill, with the 1820s beam
engine
Princess
. The former Etruscan gasworks were said to have the largest gas holder in
Europe. Further across is the centre of Hanley (from the Old English
hean-lea
, high glade)
with the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery containing the world's largest collection of ceram-
ics and a Second World War Spitfire, designed by locally born aeronautical engineer Regin-
ald Mitchell.
