08/29/2026
Potteries Bottle Ovens are distinctive bottle-shaped brick kilns once used to fire pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, England—an area famous for its ceramics industry. 🏺🔥 Their tall, bottle-like structures helped control the intense heat needed to fire pottery. Thousands once filled the city’s skyline, but only a small number survive today as historic reminders of Stoke-on-Trent’s pottery heritage.