Pictures of the Potteries
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To the people of the potteries, pictures of our local heritage in and around Stoke-on-Trent evoke memories which often produce a cascade of mixed emotions. Now that soot, grime and smoke are things of the past, even they can possibly seem to have been endowed with a touch of magic, colouring the landscape with a surreal, soft sepia tone. |
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Our Industrial Heritage
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Colourful, fascinating, detailed, knowledgeable and informative, these are not only pictorial, but are also accurate recollections of our proud local heritage.
In a lifetime of artistic collaboration with the artist, Hood and Broomfield Fine Art have been proud to publish and present this superbly comprehensive range of potteries pictures in their growing series of highly collectable, artist signed and numbered limited edition fine art prints.
Each picture creates a lasting impression.
Capturing the skills, images and spirit of the past, these are pictures of the potteries that will provide the treasured memories of today's collectors and those of generations to follow.
Thursday 10th October - 2024
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Pictures of the Potteries
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Gladstone Pottery Works
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Gladstone Pottery :-
First opened in 1787 the factory was bought by the Shelley family, it passed through many owners and has a chequered history.
It is now a highly regarded museum.
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Piccadilly Hanley:-
Hanley wearing its festive garb, the normaly drab Hanley street is here transformed by winter's glittering mantle of snow. An image of the Potteries often forgotten that is embedded in the memory and imagination that is our local heritage.
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Piccadilly Hanley |
Price Kensington
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Price Kensington :-
A back view of the old factory,
near Westport Lake
A typical picture of a Stoke-on-Trent canal scene in the potteries of the 19th & 20th. centuries
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Anchor Road Pottery :-
Also frequently known as Anchor works Longton originally owned by Thomas and John Carey, from 1823
to 1842,
it had several owners.
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Anchor Road Pottery Works |
Longton Skyline
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Longton Skyline :-
As early as 1756, the manufacture of English pocelain was here a well established means of livelyhood and ware of great lightness and beauty was produced.
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Longton Marlhole :-
North Staffordshire's geological
strata
provided local potters
with an abundance of raw material, a great variety of marl clay was often dug from sites adjacent to the factories. This had been done for centuries.
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Longton Marlhole |
The Teapot Factory
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The Teapot Factory :-
Mr. John Davenport started at this
Longport factory in 1794.
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Middleport Pottery :-
William Leigh and Fredrick Burgess
Took over this Middleport factory. From Hulme and Booth who established it in 1851.
The firm has traded as Burgess and Leigh since the take-over in 1862.
The trade mark Burleigh has been used since the 1930s
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Middleport Pottery |
Hanley Pottery Works
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Hanley Pottery Works:-
A typical Stoke-on-Trent pottery
factory could produce a range of products from basic low price earthenware to expensive fine china tableware.
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Longton Pottery Works :-
A typical pottery factory of Longton
on the lip of another marlhole.
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Longton Pottery Works |
A Royal Pottery
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A Royal Pottery:-
Royal warrants of appointment have been issued for centuries to those who supply goods or services to a royal court or certain royal personages. The warrant enables the supplier to advertise the fact that they supply to the royal family, so lending prestige to the supplier.
The quality of the products was the only consideration not the appearance of the factory.
A typical picture of a Stoke-on-Trent factory street in the potteries of the 19th & 20th. centuries
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All in a Working Day :-
The old Wedgwood site at Etruria.
A bargee and his horse at work near the "Old Roundhouse" by the canal-side.The factory was opened in 1769 - the old Roundhouse is all that remains of the world famous factory "The Etruria Works".
This view is one of the pictures of the potteries that will long be remembered.
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All in a Working Day |
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Echoes of Etruria |
Echoes of Etruria :-
A haunting image of The Potteries past... The unique character of a City born in the smoke and fires of a million chimneys and the curious bottle-shaped ovens of its famous factories.
Wedgwoods "Etruria Works" can be seen as a line of bottle shaped kilns in the middle of the picture.
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Morning Delivery :-
Old Burslem - the mother town of the Potteries. A brewer's dray begins the day's deliveries with a clatter of horseshoes sparking the cobble stones in the sunlit square beneath the town hall clock. Heavy with barrelled ale from from Parker's Burslem Brewery it stops under the sign of the "Bunch of Grapes" Public House..
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Morning Delivery |
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Gladstone Pottery |
Gladstone Pottery:-
The Works were called after the famous politician W.E. Gladstone who came to Burslem in 1863 to lay the foundation stone of the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, and this works has been called the Gladstone Works ever since. .
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Daily Rounds :-
The bustling Potteries town of Longton resounds to its never ending cycle of daily labours..
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Daily Rounds |
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Longton |
Longton:-
A picture of the potteries that is rarely ever seen, a seasonal flavour adds that extra special something to a very ordinary period street scene. The Strand Longton with the cloak of winter wonderland. |
.On the Stones :-
Successive generations of traders have offered their wares on these ancient stones for well over 700 hundred years since King Henry I I gave its first Royal Charter to the Loyal and Ancient Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1173.
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On the Stones |
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Newcastle |
Newcastle:-
A picture of Newcastle with the Christmas spirit in the air. The cheerful seasonal bustle of market day in an old market town is part of an English tradition that spans the centuries. |
Piccadilly Hanley:-
Hanley wearing its festive garb, the normaly drab Hanley street is here transformed by winter's glittering mantle of snow. An image of the Potteries often forgotten that is embedded in the memory and imagination that is our local heritage.
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Piccadilly Hanley |
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Pride of the Potteries |
A Pottery Skyline:-
A typical canal front Pottery works, Stoke-on-Trent. This is a one of those pictures of the Potteries that is embedded in the memory and imagination that is our local heritage. |
Longport in the Snow:-
The Packhorse Inn on the corner of Canal Street, opposite the Duke of Bridgwater Inn. The bottle ovens belong to Price & Kensingtons pottery works. The snow covered roof is the old wharf warehouse, adjacent to the old canal office.
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Longport |
Time to Remember
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Time to Remember :-
Old Hanley town, here pivoting around Crown Bank with its " High Street" names and cobbled roads... a time at the edge of memory and the old clock face to tell of a Time to Remember |
Forgotten Splendour:-
The splendour that was Trentham Hall, the Staffordshire seat of the Dukes of Sutherland - a magnificent Victorian, Italian-style house, built around 1840. it was used as a residence by the family until 1905 and demolished in 1912. If it had survived it would have been one of England's truly great houses.
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Forgotten Splendour |
City Final
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City Final:-
This is a picture of the Potteries taken from a specific date in world history 15 April 1912, painted mainly because of its local connection. The busy streets in the Potteries town of Hanley hears the newsvendor's cry - "Final, City Final" - trade is brisk with dramatic headlines repeated in every conversation. Titanic sunk two miles deep!. |
Wedgwoods Etruria:-
The world famous manufactory of Joshia Wedgwood, father of English Potters. From this canal side factory, Wedgwood ware was exported all over the world. One of those local pictures that epitomises the Potteries. |
Wedgwoods Etruria |
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Pride of the Potteries |
Pride of the Potteries :-
THE MODELLER:
The original designer artisan of the Pottery Industry. Worked with pride in his profession and his product. This was one of the most skilled jobs in the Pottery Industry.
It is an image, a picture of the Potteries rarely seen or remembered. |
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