Tag: pot bank
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Drawings – Derelict Bottle Ovens
This is drawing number five of derelict listed Bottle Ovens where over 20,000 people lost their jobs. Johnson Brothers pottery was one of the most successful Staffordshire potteries, importing many of their tableware products across the pond to the United States, doing so successfully for seven decades from the 1890s to the 1960s with the […]
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New Drawing – Pot Bank Series
A further bottle oven saved and listed by the City Council and included in the Drawings Page https://wp.me/P2Ijh6-1O1 in the demise of the pottery industry. Originally built in 1880 for the Smithfield Pottery manufacturers and decorators and taken over by Robert Sherwin Ltd. Robert Sherwin was a manufacturer of brushes mainly for the pottery industry […]
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Drawings-Pot Bank Series (2)
This second drawing of Price and Kensington is looking up the Trent and Mersey canal, the canal was used by barges which were loaded with ware and taken around the country, it was also used to bring in kaolin (china clay) to the various pottery manufacturers. As well as pottery the canal was used by other […]
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Drawings – Pot Bank Series (1)
This is the first in a series of Pot Bank drawings left over during the destruction of Stoke On Trent’s pottery industry, in which in 1979, over 20,000 people subsequently lost their jobs. In earlier times most of Stoke On Trent was covered with these bottle ovens bellowing out smoke after being fired up and […]