Staffordshire pottery and its historyWedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement)
History
Staffordshire pottery and its history
Wedgwood, Josiah C. (Josiah Clement)
Potters -- England; Staffordshire pottery; Wedgwood ware
Lane End, etc.
Thos. Baggaley, Lane Delf.
R. J. & J. Barker, Flint St.
Batkin & Deakin, Waterloo, Flint St.
Beardmore & Carr, Lane End.
J. & T. Booth, Lane End.
Bourne, Baker & Bourne, Fenton.
Chas. Bourne, Foley.
Joseph Burrow, Foley Works.
Maria Bridgwood, Market St.
Kitty Bridgwood & Son, Market St.
Thos. Brough, Green Dock.
Carey & Son, Lane End.
M. Cheetham & Son, Commerce St.
Lydia Cyples, Market St.
T. Drury & Son, Daisy Bank.
Hugh Ford, Green Dock.
Geo. Forrester, Market Place.
Robt. Garner, Lane End.
S. Ginder & Co., Lane Delf.
Harley & Seckerson, Lane End.
Chas. Harvey & Sons, Gt. Chas. St.
John Hewitt & Son, Green Dock.
Hilditch & Martin, Lane End.
Thos. Hughes, Lane Delf.
John Lockett & Co., King St.
W. & J. Lowe, Church St.
Jacob Marsh, Lane Delf.
Wm. Mason, Lane Delf.
Geo. & Chas. Mason, Lane Delf.
Mathers & Ball, Lane End.
Mayor and Newbold, Market Place.
Ben. & Jos. Myatt, Lane End.
Wm. Nutt, Flint St.
Jas. Pattison, High St.
Wm. Poulson, Chancery Lane.
F. & R. Pratt, Fenton.
John Pratt, Lane Delf.
John Robinson, High St.
John Robinson, George St.
Shelley, Booth & Co., Lane End.
J. H. Sheridan, Union Market Place.
Simkin & Waller, Lane End.
Thos. Stirrup, Flint St.
John Unett, High St.
H. & R. Walklate, High St.
Geo. Weston, High St.
The trades of that day dependent on potting were: Makers of the crates
wherein to pack the ware; gilders; cobalt-refiners and colour-makers,
of whom Machin and Bagguley of the new “Waterloo” Road were perhaps
the most important; enamellers; engravers of designs on copper, from
which the transfer prints for the under-glaze blue printing were made;
flint-grinders; lead and litharge makers for the glaze; saggar makers;
lathe makers and lawn manufacturers.
The lawn manufacturers made the lawn sieve through which the clay body in
the slip state was passed in order to remove all coarse particles. Indeed
the preparation of the clay body was now carried out so carefully that
magnets were used to attract any particle of iron that might be ground up
with the flint; and the old process of evaporation which converted the
slip into the solid clay body gave way about 1860 to the clay press now
used to squeeze out the water from the clay. Samuel Allen, lathe maker of
Dale Hall, is the sole representative to be found in 1818 of the makers
of potters’ machinery, now so important a branch of manufacture. But
the “jiggers,” which exactly reproduce plates by the thousand, and the
“jollies,” for the mechanical moulding and pressing of hollow ware, were
the creation of a much later age. Even now these machine tools may be
said to be in their infancy though they are developing under the hands of
skilled engineers such as Messrs Boulton of Burslem.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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