TEA WITH ARNOLD BENNETT

Middleport Pottery was built in 1888 as an efficiently-run ‘model factory’. Arnold Bennett features it in his first successful novel: Anna of the Five Towns as “The Providence Works” - a model of creativity and innovation. Join Arnold for a cuppa and a cake and re-create Anna’s tour of Middleport works in Bennett’s own words - combined with archive screen sequences of pottery-making old and new.