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Project Information
In December 2001 the New Opportunities Fund, a lottery good cause
distributor, awarded a grant of £127,000 to The Potteries Museum & Art
Gallery, with our partners the Staffordshire Ecological Record, the
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust and Staffordshire County Council, for the 'Exploring the Potteries' project. This project covers the areas
of Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, the Staffordshire Moorlands (as far as
the Peak District boundary) and the area between Stone and Stoke, and will make
more of the natural history and local history information held at the museum
available to everyone through this website.
All three members of project staff were appointed by March
2002 and
digitisation began in earnest in May. We hope by the end of the project to have
made available several hundred records from the Historic Building Survey, 500 local history
images, hundreds of wildlife records (through distribution maps), information about
200 local species, details of over 70 sites of natural heritage interest and a
range of information on potworks, archaeology, industrial sites, geology and
conservation.
We are part of the West Midlands Sense of Place Consortium, which is a group
of NOF funded projects working together to share best practice and, in many
cases, a content management system. The West Midlands Sense of Place portal, to
be launched in 2003, will provide a common access point to all the project
websites.
The Exploring the Potteries pages are designed to be accessible and
are compliant with WC3 web accessibility guidelines. If there is a topic you
would like to see featured, or you would like to let us know what you think of
the website, please use our feedback
form.
Visit our partners' websites:
Staffordshire
Ecological Record
The
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
Staffordshire
County Council
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