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Stoke-on-Trent - Potworks of the week |
Albert Street Works, Burslem
- there was also an other company called the 'Albert Street Pottery' in the same street -
John Hawthorne (1854-69)
Wiltshaw, Wood & Co (1869-73)
William Wood & Co (1873-1932)
Parrott & Co. (c.1921-60's)
Albert Street Works The Albert Street Works were established in 1854 and operated by a number of potters up until the 1960's
"Established by John Hawthorne in 1854 and continued by him until 1869, when they were taken by Wiltshaw, Wood & Co., and from 1877 carried on by William Wood & Co.
The mark used was W W & Co. This firm continued to about 1932."
Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britian 1800-1900
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Pitt Street (East),
Burslem
the street in the middleground with the potworks was Albert Street (renamed
Hobson Street in the early 1950's)
A street once overshadowed by a pall of black smoke.
The father of Arnold Bennett was born in Pitt Street in 1843.
photo: Warrillow Collection
Albert
Street, (off Nile Street), Burslem -1898 map
1898
map of Albert Street
blue box = William Wood and Co. at the Albert
Street Works
(earthenware and china
door furniture manufacturer)
Red box = George Hobson at the Sneyd Pottery (previously
called Albert Street Pottery)
(earthenware
manufacturer)
Albert Street (45, Nile Street) 1 Critchley, Mrs. Hannah 3 Edwards, George, potter 5 Mandley, Fletcher, hair-dresser 7 Hammond, John, miner 9 Silvey, Mrs.Sarah Ann 11 Washington, Timothy, miner 16 Barlow, Edward, potter 15 Deane, Mrs.Mary 17 Hilditch. William 19 Barrow, John, carter 21 Vaughan, Richard, potter 23 Bates, Samuel, borough labourer —Here is Brown Street— 25 Wood, Mrs. Eliza 27 Simpson, Isaac, labourer 31 Cartlidge, William T., brick-layer's labourer 33 Warburton, Frank 35 Rigby, Joseph, potter 37 Chappell, Mrs. Mary Ann 39 Wainwright, William, confectioner 59 Finney, George, miner 61 Clarke, Jas., engineman 63 Dakin, John, potter 65 Simpson, Thos., borough labourer 67 Lees, Frederick, potter's mouldmaker 69 Barnett, George, miner 71 Need, George, potter 73 Hartshorne, John, potter 75 Williams, Jos., brassworker 77 Marland. William, miner 81 Vernon, Samuel 83 Cartlidge, Henry, house painter 85 Walker, Chas. H., navvy 87 Lithcoe, John, labourer 89 Knott Wm ., saggarmaker 91 Simpson, William, miner 93 Copeland, Jos., bricklayer 95 Watkin, Wm.,
carter 12 Lilley, Thos., drayman 14 Eardley, Mrs. Betsy 16 Deane, Thos., cratemaker 18 Jackson, Thomas, potter 20 Hall, Francis, labourer 22 Muldoone, John, plasterer Wood, Wm.,and
Co., earthenware manufacturers, china door furniture, &c, 82 Wood.Wm.H.,Sneyd Arms (B.H.) 84 Stubbs, Leonard, miner 86 Bullock, Mrs. Martha 88 Gardner, Robert 90 Shaw, Samuel, miner Hobson, George, earthenware manufacturer
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Parrott & Company - at
the Albert Street Works
- 1936 brochure -
clay making - the filter
press
mould making - plaster of
Paris moulds
casting shop - clay slip is
poured into the plaster of Paris moulds
flatware shop - plates are
made on a 'jigger'
dipping house - the biscuit
ware is dipped into a glaze
the glazed ware is stacked
into 'saggars' to protect it during firing
the saggars containing the
ware is stacked into the bottle kiln for firing
warehouse
packing the ware with straw
prior to shipping
the 'power house'
Related pages Burslem - one of the six towns of Stoke-on-Trent - there was also an other company called the 'Albert Street Pottery' in the same street - also see..
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