Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

===Architecture===

From the [[Half timbered|half-timbered]] [[Vernacular architecture|farmhouse vernacular]] of [[Ford Green Hall]], through the 18th-century canal-side [[Wedgwood]] estate of [[Etruria Works|Etruria]] one of the hubs of the [[Industrial Revolution]], to 19th-century country house estates e.g. [[Trentham Estate|Trentham Hall]] and railway buildings such as [[Stoke-on-Trent railway station|Stoke Station]] and more lately in the 20th century, the expansion and renewal of industrial, civic and amenity buildings including [[Potteries Museum and Art Gallery]], the architecture of North Staffordshire has a history expressive of locally acquired or manufactured building materials: quarried stone, coal and clay for brick and tile-making, ash, sand gravel and cement for concrete, and also cast iron steel and timber.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Stoke-on-Trent's architecture is tied closely to the [[industrial heritage]] of the city. [[Bottle oven]]s (used for early pottery manufacture), canal-side and railway-related mill, factory, or warehouse buildings evolved – within the tightly knit street pattern of each of the six townships – from transport links and adjacency to local generationally skilled labour. Post-WWII pottery factories developed a style typified by [[Open plan|open-plan]] manufacturing areas, surrounded by wide expanses of window-walling from floor to ceiling, allowing good daylighting for intricate tasks such as [[lithography]], fettling and decoration.
[[File:ASREGENT WORKS 1.jpg|thumb|Colclough China Longton, a factory typical of the mid 20th century]]

In 1966, [[Stone, Staffordshire|Stone (Staffordshire)]] born [[Cedric Price]] had proposed a Potteries Thinkbelt design which sought to make use of decommissioned railway routes following the [[Beeching cuts|Beeching Cuts]] and the scarred landscape of coal mining to provide linked learning centres for a technical industry-based curriculum. The [[Staffordshire University]] Architecture course has introduced an annual Cedric Price Day celebrating this and other projects of his.<ref>{{cite web |title=Work of Staffordshire-born architect celebrated on Cedric Price Day 2 September 2021 |url=https://www.staffs.ac.uk/news/2021/09/work-of-staffordshire-born-architect-celebrated-on-cedric-price-day |website=Staffordshire University |date=2 September 2021 |access-date=2 September 2022}}</ref>