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Stoke-on-Trent - Advert of the week
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Potworks of the Week
E. Hampton & Sons, Eastwood and Mousecroft Fire-Brick and Marl Works
E. Hampton & Sons, Eastwood and Mousecroft Fire-Brick and Marl Works
advert from.....
1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries,
Newcastle & District'
Quarris for
Slip, Enamel, and Hardening-on Kilns, Fire Bricks,
Bastard Bricks, Saggar Marl, Prepared Saggar Marl,
Grog, Pugged Wad Clay
Where the YMCA stands in Harding Road there used
to be a Marl hole.
On the 1898 map of the area is marked Mousecroft Brick Works.
In the background is the now demolished Unity House
Joiners Square - looking towards the Wellington district of Hanley
from a postcard dated 8th
May 1908
part of the message reads "This is a typical view of the
'potteries'"
The Caldon branch canal can be seen in the lower half of the picture running left to right.
In the foreground are piles of bricks - the Mousecroft Brick Works lay just behind the photographer.
1898 OS map of the Eastwood
area of Hanley (Shelton) showing the
Eastwood firebrick works & marl hole and the Mousecroft Brick works &
marl hole
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