Selfie with Bottle Kilns
At one point there were four thousand bottle kilns like this around the Stoke area. Now there are 47 left, illegal to use since the clean air act of 1968, but given Grade II listed status to preserve them as a reminder of our past. We are moored right next the these two, and I can see them as I write, so I thought that was worth a rare selfie. A single firing of a bottle kiln released over fifty…