Short Street off Uttoxeter Road, Longton
Just up from Gladstone Pottery (which is now a museum - well worth a visit) walking along Uttoxeter Road towards Normacot is Short Street. Short Street is amazing for its lack of change for many years.
The cottages (nos 23-27 Short St.) are grade II listed buildings (heritage no. 83B)
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Short
passage-way in front of the pottery and running between Short Street and
Chelson Street.
Of note:
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Derelict bottle kilns in Short Street. |
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Short
Street runs down to Normacot Road where Crown Windsor Pottery is.
Note how close the cottages on the left are to the factory. |
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The
cottages looking back up Short Street.
These cottages were used in the BBC television adaptation of Arnold Bennett's book 'Clayhanger'. |
This
chimney (much thinner than a bottle kiln) is a flint kiln.
The chimney is just behind the gardens (bottom of the picture) of the cottages. The flint shop and kiln worked 24 hours a day. Note the characteristic steel bands around the chimney.
The cottages (nos 23-27 Short St.) are grade II listed buildings (heritage no. 83B) |
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Photos taken October 1999 - S.C.Birks
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