{"id":339001,"date":"2025-08-12T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339001\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:30:12","slug":"plans-to-replace-demolished-wedgwood-statue-in-stoke-on-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339001\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to replace demolished Wedgwood statue in Stoke-on-Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said its aim was to have the sculpture rebuilt and reinstated close to where it was originally on display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our teams have been working very hard over the last couple of years to ensure this can happen,&#8221; said council leader Jane Ashworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have worked closely with a local company which specialises in heritage construction, as well as Vincent Woropay&#8217;s family, to ensure it can be reconstructed to a high standard and displayed in a prominent place which highlights the significant contribution Wedgwood made to our city&#8217;s ceramics industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wedgwood built and lived in Etruria Hall, so it is only right that we mark his legacy and return Capo to Festival Park \u2013 and it makes it extra special that this is going to happen in our centenary year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sculpture would be unveiled in its new location later this year, subject to planning approval and negotiations with the land owner, the council said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The authority said its aim was to have the sculpture rebuilt and reinstated close to where it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016985955521197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}