Lancaster and Barker






 

Location and period of operation:

Lancaster & Barker

Hanley  

1887

c.1896

 

Manufacturer of Earthenware and Jet at the Shelton Works, off Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

  • The works were probably in Slippery Lane, off Broad Street, Hanley.

  • The business founded by Mr. Frederick John Lancaster in c.1887 who was joined by Mr. Barker at Christmas 1892.

  • By 1893 they employed about 60 people. The works had a biscuit and a glost oven and two large bottle kilns for firing the ware.

  • Around 1896 they moved to the nearby Dresden Works in Tinkersclough.

 

Subsequently: Lancaster & Barker (at the Dresden Works)  

 

 

Messrs. Lancaster and Barker, Earthenware and Jet Manufacturers,
Shelton Works, off Broad Street, Hanley

From: A descriptive account of The Potteries (illustrated)
1893 advertising and trade journal. Page 21

  on the journal

 

 

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