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Located in the Old Town Hall.

Location: On the clock tower of the Old Town Hall, Market Place, Burslem Installed: 1854-57 Commissioned by: Burslem Urban District Council Architect: George Thomas Robinson The clock tower on the Old Town Hall is supported by eight identical Atlas figures, two on each corner. The figures have naked torsos, their lower body and legs have been replaced by a large scroll-like feature, their arms reach up over their heads to support the bell tower. The town hall has been described has having a, 'Bulgy clock tower [with] lofty caryatids in a forest of muscular elbows.' The Old Town Hall can be seen on the following picture:- http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/272797

Now part of the Ceramica Museum.

Location: Woodbank Street, Burslem (at the roadside) Installed: 1992 Commissioned by: Staffordshire County Council Sculptor: John McKenna Each of the three reliefs is situated within a black edged arch, with the head of the arch being shaped to reflect the image within the arch. These sculptures celebrate three traditional industries of Burslem, brick manufacture, mining and pottery. The relief of the coal miner is within a frame that has the shape of a pithead's two wheels. He kneels on one knee and uses a pickaxe to chip at the coal face that surrounds him. The second and largest relief shows a potter working on a potter's wheel. It is set within a frame in the shape of a pottery kiln. The bowls he is manufacturing are hardening on a shelf in the foreground of the image. The last relief is set within a frame in the shape of a brick kiln. It shows a brickmaker removing a brick from its mould with two shelves of bricks hardening in the background.

The Old Town Hall adorned with the golden angel mentioned in Arnold Bennet's books. The building now houses the Ceramica exhibition.

Market Street Burslem. Only pub in the world with this name. A SAGGAR is a fireclay container, usually oval or round, used to protect pottery from marking by flames and smoke during firing in a bottle oven. The SAGGAR MAKER, is a skilled man, producing the finished saggar, using his thumb to make a near join between the side and the base.

A listed building. Late 18C, refronted in 1830, Stucco with plain tile roof, 3 storeys Burslem's Leopard held in 1765 the first meeting between Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Bentley, Erasmus Darwin and the engineer James Brindley which culminated in the cutting of the Trent and Mersey Canal. "On Friday last I dined with Mr. Brindley, the Duke of Bridgewater's engineer, after which we had a meeting at the Leopard on the subject of a Navigation from Hull.... to Burslem" – Josiah Wedgwood,11th March 1765.

On the north-eastern side of Westport Street.

The layout of central Burslem today still has the street plan of a medieval market town. The area of St. John's Square can be seen on a 1720 map. A traditional Victorian drinking fountain in Fountain Square (top of St. John's Square), Burslem. Commissioned by Mayor James Maddock and installed in 1881-83 The building to the left is the National Westminster Bank (was Manchester and Liverpool District Bank). The bank sits on the corner of Fountain Square (was Fountain Place)