Mary Elizabeth Whalley McGraw of May Place, Fenton

Mary Elizabeth Whalley McGraw of May Place, Fenton

Mary Elizabeth Whalley McGraw (Potters Paintress) at work with some of her colleagues
- the photo is evidently take an a pot bank - in the top right is a bottle kiln and also on the right
is some packing crates with straw, which was used to pack the pottery -

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Mary Elizabeth Whalley McGraw was born in Oxford Street, Longton to John Sutherland Whalley McGraw and Elizabeth McGraw (nee Edwards) but she moved to May Place in Fenton.
The picture would have been taken between 1924 and 1934. She was a potter's paintress.
She married Herbert Samuel Young in August 1934 and they had a son - Malcolm Herbert Young who was born in May Place, Fenton in 1935.

May Place - Fenton - 1922 map

May Place and Merton Street - Google maps
Oxford Street was renamed Merton Street in the mid 1950's

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