Useful Links
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
The museum displays a wonderful collection of earthenware, stoneware and porcelain covering the past 400 years and it is well worth a personal visit.
The web site explores a number of themes of which ceramics is a major one, detailing factories over the last 250 years and potters (mainly from the 20th century). A further collection is based largely on the photos and lantern slides by William Blake of pottery towns, factories, churches, transport and the workers inside factories making pots.
http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure/museums/potteries-museum---art-gallery/
ThePotteries.org
www.thepotteries.org is another site useful for identifying ceramics and the marks on pottery and porcelain. The site contains information on many subjects, including the history of Stoke-on-Trent, Ceramic Marks and Types of Pottery.
Ironbridge Gorge Museums
www.ironbridge.org.uk reviews the attractions of the area with a section on Coalport china museum exhibits.
Victoria & Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum, London has an excellent collection of ceramics from around the world but the rooms concerned with British Porcelain were closed for refurbishment when this web site was created.