Guided Halloween ghost trail for children at Middleport Pottery, with a guide and a reward, on 31 October.
Middleport Pottery is running a Halloween Kids Ghost Trail on Saturday 31 October, open from 10am to 3pm. It's a ghost hunt for children, with a guide to lead the way and a reward waiting at the end. It's a simple, family-friendly morning or afternoon out on Halloween itself, rather than a late-night thing, so it works if you've got little ones who need to be in bed by a decent hour.
The trail is set inside Middleport Pottery, which is a Grade II*-listed, charity-owned heritage site in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent, right next to the Trent & Mersey canal. It was built by Burgess & Leigh in the late nineteenth century and is the UK's last working Victorian potbank in continuous production, and it's been home to Burleigh Pottery for over 130 years. If you've never been, it's a proper piece of the city's industrial history that's still actually doing what it was built for.
Beyond the ghost trail, there's plenty more to see around the site. You can take a guided Factory Tour or follow a self-led Heritage Trail through the Victorian Offices, the Placing House and Bottle Oven, the Mould Store, and the Bath House. There's also the historic wooden narrowboat Dane and an original Steam Engine to look at. If you're taking the kids, The Packing House Café is on-site for a break, and there's the Middleport Pottery Gift Shop and the Burleigh Shop for a browse. The whole place is dog-friendly and pushchair-friendly, so it's easy enough to bring the dog along or navigate with a pram.
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The ghost trail runs on Saturday 31 October from 10am to 3pm, and it costs £3 per child.
