{"id":851,"date":"2013-05-16T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2013-05-16T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T21:32:01","slug":"wedgwood-institute-to-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2013\/05\/16\/wedgwood-institute-to-be-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedgwood Institute to be saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super news!  One of the main settings for my novel <em>The Spyders of Burslem<\/em>, The Wedgwood Institute in Burslem, is to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk\/Prince-brings-new-hope-jobs-Mother-Town\/story-19001139-detail\/story.html\">brought back to life<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Burslem&#8217;s historic Wedgwood Institute has been identified by the Prince [Prince Charles] for his latest Potteries regeneration project.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was last used as the Burslem public library, but that was closed by the City Council (Labour) and the building mothballed.  A few years ago I was told that the roof needs a lot of attention, but if anyone can pull off a restoration it&#8217;s the Prince&#8217;s Trust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wedgwin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wedgwin.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"wedgwin\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A creative industries use would fit nicely with the School of Art etc nearby. It would be nice to see it as home to a mix of craft ceramics makers and digital 3D modelling and 3D printing startups, based around project work where craft makers and digital technologists worked together on projects &mdash; something which might also chime with the City Deal&#8217;s aims of working with innovative new materials in Ceramic Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super news! One of the main settings for my novel The Spyders of Burslem, The Wedgwood Institute in Burslem, is to be brought back to life&#8230;. &#8220;Burslem&#8217;s historic Wedgwood Institute has been identified by the Prince [Prince Charles] for his latest Potteries regeneration project.&#8221; It was last used as the Burslem public library, but that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}