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Lancaster
and Barker
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Location and period of operation:
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Lancaster & Barker |
Hanley |
1887 |
c.1896 |
Manufacture of Earthenware and Jet at the Shelton Works,off Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
The works were probably in Slippery Lane, off Broad Street, Hanley.
The business founded by Mr. Frederick John Lancaster in c.1887 who was joined by Mr. Barker at Christmas 1892.
By 1893 they employed about 60 people. The works had a biscuit and a glost oven and two large bottle kilns for firing the ware.
Around 1896 they moved to the nearby Dresden Works in Tinkersclough.
Subsequently: Lancaster & Barker (at the Dresden Works)
Messrs. Lancaster
and Barker, Earthenware and Jet Manufacturers,
Shelton Works, off Broad Street, Hanley
From: A descriptive account of The
Potteries (illustrated)
1893 advertising and trade journal. Page 21
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