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World of Wedgwood, Barlaston added to Everything Else in West Midlands by D0c.Col on 19/10/2023

The Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Staffordshire, England, houses an extensive collection of Wedgwood pottery and artefacts, exhibiting the company's history and creativity. The British pottery company was founded by Josiah Wedgwood in 1759. Wedgwood earned the favour of various European monarchs, including Queen Charlotte of England and Catherine the Great of Russia. The company was granted a royal warrant by various British monarchs and became known as "The Queen's Potter."
The new purpose-built visitor centre and museum was built in Barlaston in 1975 and later remodelled in 1985. A video theatre was added and a new gift shop, as well as an expanded demonstration area, where visitors could watch pottery being made. A further renovation costing £4.5 million was carried out in 2000 and included access to the main factory along with a visitor centre, restaurant and tea room. T

In 1986, Waterford Glass Group plc purchased Wedgwood plc for $360 million dollars but whilst Wedgwood went on to deliver a $39 million dollar profit in 1998 Waterford unfortunately produced a loss of $29 million dollars, after which the group was renamed Waterford Wedgwood plc. In 2009, following years of financial problems at group level, and after it’s shares dropped significantly in the global financial crisis of 2008, Waterford Wedgwood was placed into administration with only 1,800 employees remaining to run the company as a "going concern."
During this time a company factory in Jakarta was producing bone china under both Wedgwood and Royal Doulton brands. In order to reduce costs the majority of production of both brands has been transferred to Indonesia, with only a small number of high-end products continuing to be made in the UK.
The collection with 80,000 works of art, ceramics, manuscripts, letters and photographs faced being sold off to help satisfy pension debts, however, The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund as well as various trusts and businesses contributed donations to buy the collection and in October 2014, it was finally purchased and donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, although it continued to be displayed, on loan, at the Wedgwood Museum.

TOAL couldn't be any easier as I used the back edge of their carpark. I did ask if it was okay to film there and they said no problem but I did leave out the fact that I'd be using my mini 3 Pro! It gets pretty busy there so go early or late in the day for a relatively easy time and avoid flying over crowds. Google Maps will take you right there and not far away are:
The Plume and Feathers Pub owned by the actor Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly and Bob The Builder) - less than 3 minutes away by car and they do a cracking pub lunch or book the Restaurant.
Trentham Gardens and Shopping Outlet and Garden Centre - 10minutes by car.

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Co-ordinates: 52.95594, -2.170846 • what3words: ///metals.films.reach

The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 07/10/2023. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location.

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Holy Trinity Church, Leven, East Riding of Yorkshire (By CutThroatJake)

A casual request to the Church Warden, a neighbour, confirmed the church has no problems with drone flights outside of service times.
All the green area shown is church land.

Land owner permission obtained.

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Co-ordinates: 53.89189, -0.31769 • what3words: ///bravo.succumbs.radar

The Forth Rail Bridge (By ndarby61)

Night flight in South Queensferry prior to Balfour Beaty very oblidgingly allowing us to walk across the Rail Bridge and back from 0030 hrs to 0330 hours.
For drone footage advise parking in the main street of South Queensferry and walking down Gote Lane to access the small harbour there - use this as take off/land - usually "drone police" free (I use a hi-viz coat and a lanyard to ward off the "karens")

Be very aware that your are very close to the Ed Airport FRZ area so fly accordingly.
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Co-ordinates: 56.00714, -3.39175 • what3words: ///foresight.cupboards.sing

St Hugh's Charterhouse, Horsham (By muzungu)

This is a gorgeous site, hidden from the road and most people don't even know it exists. Parking is at either at the Chalet Cafe, just North of the site, or Jeremy's Two, slightly further on. Plenty of public footpaths around the area to fly from with good lines of sight.

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Co-ordinates: 50.97288, -0.281998 • what3words: ///octagonal.shadows.composed

Grove Road Rec, Gosport (By CaptainTweaky)

I understand that Fareham BC allows drones to be flown from recreation areas controlled by them providing due care is taken. This location is a good place to fly over Forton Lake being very cautious of wildlife as the 'lake' is covered by an SSSI controlled by Natural England.

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Co-ordinates: 50.80491, -1.136547 • what3words: ///badly.office.twice

Kings Head Mill Battle, Rother (By grandad1950)

Kings Head Mill, sometimes called Hoads Mill, is a refurbished smock mill now converted to residential use.

Located next to Kingsmead Fields with good views of the surrounding area. Lots of space to fly and TOAL. About a 10 minute walk from where I parked .

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Co-ordinates: 50.92245, 0.48462 • what3words: ///sake.novels.rapport

Cobstone Windmill Buckinghamshire (By Kirky)

Cobstone windmill in between Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire but is more under Oxfordshire, situated out in the middle of nowhere, lots of fields, woodland with public access in & around, a few public & dog walkers around so be mindful of that, I was approached by 2 public who were very very friendly & was fascinated by the drone looking over my shoulder at the screen on the remote, really nice place was minus 2 when I visited quite cold but that didn’t put me off I can imagine this is nice all year round & well worth a visit even just for a country stroll … fantastic

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Co-ordinates: 51.61714, -0.889592 • what3words: ///clean.shapeless.pony

Battle Recreation Ground East Sussex (By grandad1950)

Just a few minutes walk from Battle Abbey. Good car park and lots of space to fly. Might be busy at weekends.

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Co-ordinates: 50.91792, 0.476741 • what3words: ///keepers.developer.whisker

St James Church Ruins, Oxon (By Howard)

I believe this is the only site with the ruins of a church in Oxfordshire. The church was abandoned in 1875 and quickly fell into disrepair. The site has also been a location used in a couple of horror films from 50 or 60 years ago.

There is a parking verge just opposite the entrance to the field with the church. Just up the road is the Warburg Nature Reserve - worth a visit in its own right, but something to be mindful of when flying here.

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Co-ordinates: 51.5768, -0.953407 • what3words: ///tangent.musically.conveying

Rhiwagor Falls (By AlbionDrones)

About a mile uphill walk - a moderate climb in a couple of places - from the car park / layby (layby is free parking - and you find yourself at the bottom of this series of waterfalls, that drain into Lake Vrynwy.

It is not overly popular but there are a few folks coming and going - they don't tend to hang around more than 10 mins though.

Great cinematic views and some lovely twisty and tight FPV flying up the falls themselves, although not vertical enough for any real 'diving'... AVATA2 coped well, but do watch out for the branches...

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Co-ordinates: 52.8089, -3.554131 • what3words: ///jingles.entire.hoops

Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (By liberator24)

The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is located near Cambridge, UK and is home to a number of the largest and most advanced aperture synthesis radio telescopes in the world, including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager.

It was founded by the University of Cambridge and is part of the Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratories, Astrophysics Department.

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Co-ordinates: 52.16438, 0.039423 • what3words: ///detonated.incoming.swipes


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