Park Place Works, Longton

See location map for Park Place Works

The Gladstone Works and Park Place Works are listed buildings. 

| Marks on Roslyn Ware | Examples of Roslyn Ware |

William Ward  split up the site into two smaller potbanks. This division of the Shelleys’ property is still in evidence today, for the Gladstone Pottery is part of the Ward purchase; the Park Place Works (now the Roslyn Works) , which lies adjacent to Gladstone, forms the other part of the original Shelley property. 
 There is a map dated 1815 which shows the potbank split into several small lots. Many of these ranges of buildings were incorporated into later phases of building work in the 19th century, so visitors to the Gladstone Pottery Museum today will be, at least in part , surrounded by the fabric of 18th century buildings. 
It was in 1818 that Ward sold his potbank to John Hendley Sheridan for £1222. During the next 40 years the development of this potbank was remarkable, and at the same time very typical of the development of Longton and the industry in the Potteries.

Frontage of the Roslyn Park Place works, 
the Gladstone Works are to the right

Frontage is on Uttoxeter Road, Longton (previously called the High St)

Bottle kilns of the Roslyn Park Place works,  
the Gladstone kilns are to the left

Photos taken 1999

Questions/comments? email: Steve Birks