Description:The Trent and Mersey Canal, looking towards Etruria. The two gasometers that dominate the skyline in this photograph were both dismantled by 1991. The left hand tow path is now part of the Festival Park marina. Just to the right of the canal bridge can be seen the Wedgwood roundhouse with its distinctive domed roof.
Wedgwood pottery production on the site lasted until 1940 when the earthenware department was transferred to the new factory at Barlaston. The last of the factory buildings were demolished in the mid 1960s and all that remains of the original works is the northern “roundhouse”, now part of premises occupied by the Sentinel newspaper.