Interior view showing clay preparation machinery at the Burgess and Leigh pottery works

Date:
1975
Location:
Middleport Pottery, Port Street, Middleport, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent
Reference:
SER/1479B
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

In 1862 William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess took over the running of the Central Pottery in Burslem. The name was changed, and in 1889 the company located to the Middleport Pottery, which was widely considered to be a 'Model Pottery'. It was designed with efficiency and the well being of workers in mind. The vertical shaft in the centre of this image, operated by belt drive and pulleys, ran a 'blunger', a stirring mechanism which prevented the clay from settling in the underground storage tanks.

Content

This is part of the Series: GMW01/02 Steam Engine Record; within the Collection: GMW01 Watkins, George Middleton

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Watkins, George Middleton

Keywords

Machinery, Victorian Pottery Works