点评:What a terrible waste of our time. Looked at the website which said open 7 days a week 10am to 4pm. We arrived luckily it was a free car park for two hours or I would have been very annoyed. We wandered around and around looking for a way in, nothing obvious. We could see people in the building with Spode written on it so I rang the bell. A young lady came to the door and I asked how do we get into the Spode factory shop? She said "what is Spode?" I said you are joking? She said maybe the security office knows. We spotted some toilets on the way to the office and I made the mistake of going. Oh my goodness, they were filthy. The workmen on the site next door are using them. It was disgusting so I gave it a miss. We spotted a building but a Polish lady said it was the vack of a hotel!! We went into the security office and asked where the Spode factory shop was he looked blank at us. Luckily there was a guy in the back office from the council. He explained that the museum, a small building we had not even seen was closed till Wednesday, not what the website says. I had a rant and said how disappointed we were to come all the way from Wales for nothing. He said imagine how the people of Stoke feel! He did say that Portmerion owned Spode which we knew and that the quality was now terrible. Also that the head of the Spode museum was busy buying up all the old Spode on Ebay and at auction for tge museum.
翻译:真是浪费我们的时间。看了网站,上面说每周 7 天开放,上午 10 点至下午 4 点。我们到达时很幸运,停车场可以免费停两个小时,否则我会非常恼火。我们四处游荡,想找个路进去,但什么也找不到。我们可以看到大楼里有人,上面写着 Spode,所以我按了门铃。一位年轻女士来到门口,我问我们怎么进入 Spode 工厂店?她说“Spode 是什么?”我说你在开玩笑吗?她说也许保安办公室知道。我们在去办公室的路上发现了一些厕所,我犯了一个错误,去了那里。天哪,它们太脏了。隔壁工地的工人正在使用它们。太恶心了,所以我没有进去。我们发现了一栋建筑,但一位波兰女士说那是一间酒店的垃圾桶!!我们走进保安办公室,问 Spode 工厂店在哪里,他茫然地看着我们。幸运的是,后面办公室里有一位来自议会的人。他解释说,博物馆是一栋我们甚至都没见过的小建筑,直到周三才开放,并不是网站上说的那样。我大发牢骚,说我们大老远从威尔士来到这里却一无所获,真是太失望了。他说想象一下斯托克的人们会是什么感受!他确实说过,波特梅里恩拥有我们所知道的斯波德,现在质量太差了。此外,斯波德博物馆的馆长正忙着在 Ebay 和拍卖会上为博物馆购买所有旧的斯波德。