Description:This photograph shows the corner of the Wedgwood Institute on Queen Street and Clayhanger Street in Burslem. The institute is built on the site of the Brick House Works operated by Wedgwood from 1763 to 1772 and was opened in April 1869. A grade II* listed building, the Institute was built with money raised by public subscription to make arts, science and literature more freely available in The Potteries. The highly decorated exterior has series of locally designed terracotta panels above the windows illustrating the months of the year, and above them, a series of mosaic signs of the zodiac.
The side of the Wedgwood Institute is in Clayhanger Street named after Arnold Bennett's novel. In Bennett's novels this small passageway was called Buggs Gutter and the Wedgwood Institute was called The School of Art (the Burslem School of Art on the other side of Queen Street wasn't built until later).