The old Wedgwood Institute in Burslem is a lovely building, built in the Venetian Gothic style.
As you can see, it has an ornate frieze around its top depicting the astrological signs of the zodiac named with their corresponding months and a scene referring to the sign.
But... the makers got muddled up.
As you can see in centre of the the photo, the roundel at the top depicts Cancer The Crab (June 22 to July 22), the month says June, but, er, the scene depicts a man holding down a ram (March, Aries!).
Where is the usual scene for Cancer, a woman collecting crabs? Yep, you guessed it: over where the ram should have been.
Somebody clearly wasn’t concentrating.
Wedgwood himself seems unbothered though.
As you can see in centre of the the photo, the roundel at the top depicts Cancer The Crab (June 22 to July 22), the month says June, but, er, the scene depicts a man holding down a ram (March, Aries!).
Where is the usual scene for Cancer, a woman collecting crabs? Yep, you guessed it: over where the ram should have been.
Somebody clearly wasn’t concentrating.
Wedgwood himself seems unbothered though.
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