‘The Stoke Spitfire’

In the heart of Stoke-on-Trent, where the kilns once smoked and potters shaped clay into timeless art, there now stands a soaring echo of a different kind of craft – one born not of earth but of sky. That craft? A Spitfire. It’s a silent guardian lying in the aptly named glass-fronted ‘Spitfire Gallery’ of The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery: Spitfire LF.XVI RW388, cradled in light, stands in tribute to one of the West Midlands city’s most famous sons