IHBC West Midlands Branch – CPD Session
Regeneration & Viability of Heritage Assets

23rd September 2025
9:30 - 16:00
£25-£35

Join our next quarterly in person CPD event at Burgess and Leigh Pottery, Stoke on Trent, for talks, lunch and tours.

Location: Burleigh Factory Shop, Port Street, Burslem ST6 3PE

Burgess and Leigh Pottery
Recognised for their dedication to fine craftsmanship and traditional manufacturing, Burgess and Leigh Pottery have been making their iconic blue and white ceramics, using the same techniques for generations. They are the last pottery in the world to use the traditional and timeless skill of underglaze tissue printing, which is an English process dating back over 200 years.

Following talks during the morning focussing on the regeneration and viability of key heritage assets in and around the site of Stoke-on -Trent, there will be two tours during the afternoon, one being a factory tour. Because the site is owned by Re-Form Heritage, guided Middleport Pottery tours are delivered by trained guides who will show you how Burleigh pottery is made, from clay to finished product. You will learn about unique manufacturing processes with roots in the 1800s and meet some of our talented craftspeople.

The second tour is a Heritage Trail which encompasses the 'Victorian Offices', which exhibits Burleigh ware of the past, and the historic bottle oven, allowing visitors to look inside one of the last remaining bottle oven kilns. Other elements of the Heritage Trail include the Mould Store, Placing House, Bottle Oven, Bath House, Steam Engine and the 1950’s Lodge Keeper’s House, located across the road on Harper Street.

IHBC West Midlands Branch – 2025 AGM and CPD Event

13th March 2025
0930 - 1630
Free - £35
Lord Leycester Hospital
Warwick, CV34 4BH

Join us for our AGM, followed by talks on the recent renovation works at LLH and tours of both LLH and historic Warwick.

Welcome to our first event of 2025! March sees us at the Grade I listed Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick for our AGM and talks on the £4.5M restoration of Lord Leycester Hospital, one of England’s most intact medieval buildings. Speakers include Luke Nagle of Donald Insall Architects, the firm responsible for the renovation works.

After lunch, we will tour Lord Leycester Hospital and Warwick.