Etruria Canals Festival

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This year the Etruria Canals Festival will be take place during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June. It will be open from 11.00am to 5.00pm each day. Alongside a historic narrowboat gathering along the banks of the Caldon canal there will be a range of family friendly workshops and entertainment, children's games and activities, story telling and performances, craft demonstrations, working blacksmith's forge, stalls, street food, tea-room and beer tent.

To reflect the Queen's Jubilee, the theme is 'Women Who Have Lived Extraordinary Lives' with the emphasis on 'Women of the Waterways'. A range of hands-on activities, arts projects and exhibitors will bring it to life.

FREE entrance to the festival site and parking at the Etruria Industrial Museum, Etruria Vale Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 4RB.

This historic site, which is at the junction of the Trent and Mersey and Caldon canals, is home to Jesse Shirley's 1857 Bone and Flint mill which is the only remaining operational potters' mill in the world. It will be in steam from 12.30pm to 4.30pm each day. Entrance to the Mill £6.00 per adult. Guided tour £8.00 per adult (subject to availability). Young people under 16 free when with a paying adult. Unfortunately, there is limited access to the mill for those with mobility difficulties.

For more information see https://etruriacanalsfestival.org.uk