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Crate-making in the pottery industry

 

a crate-maker at work
straw was used to pack around the pottery ware in the crate
Crate making was an important ancillary trade in the pottery
industry right up to the 1970's

 

photos: the Ewart Morris Collection

 

crate-makers yard - on the Burslem Branch Canal

more on the Burslem branch canal

 

 

same crate yard many years later
the wooden crates are replaced by wire mesh
new houses built in the background and the old
coal spoil heap has been rounded off and grassed over

contents: 2009 photos