Greengates Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent

Some of the bottle kiln ovens at Greengates

From	To	Occupier	Comments
1779		Adams	Greengates - the first large pottery works in Tunstall, founded by William Adams in 1779.
	1826	Adams	Benjamin Adams had not the artistic gifts of his father, and, having indifferent health, production fell off and he sold Greengates in 1826.
1812	1836	John Meir
1837	1897	John Meir & Son
			The works was repurchased by William Adams IV to expand his production. It became a unit of William Adams and Company, Tunstall.

Note the overlap in occupation of the works between Benjamin Adams and John Meir - it was not uncommon for two (or more) potters to occupy different sections of the one works. 

a print of the Greengates Works in the 1780's 

Greengates Works in 1991
[from 'Potworks']
the frontage had partly subsided and was hidden from the road and a more recent building 

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