Stoke Road..... Howard Place & Snow Hill

Cauldon Place Pottery Works

No longer standing but was just up from the park and situated alongside the Caldon canal another sign of the influence of the Ridgway family.

The Cauldon Place works founded c.1802 by Job Ridgway
in 1859 taken over by Brown-Westhead, Moore and in the early 1900's known as Cauldon Potteries

This picture from "A descriptive account of The Potteries (illustrated)"
a 1893 advertising and trade journal.

Stoke-on-Trent College

Previously Cauldon College of further education. Stands on the site of the Cauldon Place pottery works.

Stoke-on-Trent College

The pottery factory buildings were vacated in 1936 and were largely devastated by fire in 1938. During the war the derelict buildings were used for the training of Civil Defence Workers. The use of the site for further education originated in 1946 when the newly created Building Department of the technical college was created here.

Entrance to the College

The wall is part of the Cauldon Pottery and on the left can be seen the railings as Stoke Road goes over the Caldon Canal. The building to the back of the wall is the old lock-keepers cottage. At the far left are some of the buildings of Howard Place and to the right background are houses in Norfolk Street and behind them St. Mark's church.

Cauldon Pottery Sign

The wall is part of the Cauldon Pottery as shown in the picture above - in the wall, behind the college entrance sign it still says "Cauldon Potteries"

College of Further Education

Festival of Britain 1951

 Inscription on the old college exit walls on College Road side of the campus, behind the lower photo can be seen the student flats alongside the Caldon canal.

inscription photos: Peter Hulme