Archaeologists excavated a 400-year-old site in Montreuil-sur-Mer and uncovered pottery artifacts still sitting in the oven, photos show. Photo from F. Auduit and Inrap A collection of pots sat in a ...

A concert will be held in an old pottery oven to show how the unusual spaces can be used. Singer Samantha Lloyd from Stoke-on-Trent is to perform in one of the 50 remaining bottle ovens in the city on ...

People have found quality items while dumpster diving. Last year, a woman discovered unopened Halloween costumes in Spirit Halloween’s dumpster. Another woman unearthed a $600 Dyson Airwrap that was ...

An historic bottle oven has received much-needed maintenance following an “overwhelming” response to a fundraising appeal. The 19th century kiln at Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent had become ...

Officials were forced to close a historic bridge in October 2022 when engineers said it was unsafe. Construction crews are working on a temporary bridge but before the work began, archaeologists were ...

A local authority is looking into claims that a historic pottery oven, said to be one of only three of its kind, has been damaged in a recent demolition. Stoke-on-Trent City Council said its building ...

Huge brick-built bottle ovens, used to fire pottery and in the preparation of raw materials, were once the dominant feature of the Stoke-on-Trent landscape. At their peak, around 2,000 existed in the ...