PASSING THROUGH STOKE-ON-TRENT on the Trent & Mersey Canal many boaters visit the canalside museums of the potteries.
But these are in jeopardy, Janet Friend reports.
A report just out tells that these are mostly in poor condition and it requires £325m in both public and private funding to safeguard its historic sites.
The report states that the city faces the loss of nationally and internationally renowned sites unless urgent action is taken.
The picture shows Etruria Museum, one of many by the side of the canal
It is home to over 275 listed buildings and four museums with designated collections—the Potteries Museum, Etruria Industrial Museum, Ford Green Hall and Gladstone Pottery Museum.
The report states that there is now a very real prospect that several of the city’s most important assets will be lost entirely if they are not to receive funding and brought back into sustainable economic use.
And it calls for a ten years plan to safeguard these valuable museums.