Day Trip: Stoke-on-Trent
Day Trip to Stoke-on-Trent Get up at 5:30 for a 6:30 meeting across town? Heck, yes! Although it is awfully dark (January sunrise is 8am here in London), here I am, wiping the sleep from my eyes to meet Thirty-nine American Women's Club members on a bus, for a day of pottery shopping in Stoke-on-Trent, the historical home of English Pottery. Quick History lesson! Stoke is known as "the Potteries", and its residents are "The Potters". There are 6 towns that comprise Stoke-on-Trent, and its residents even have their own dialect. Stoke-on-Trent is known as the British capital for china and pottery...