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Stoke-on-Trent - Advert of the week
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Potworks of the Week
Thomas Arrowsmith & Sons, Burslem
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Thomas Arrowsmith was a JP and Councillor
for Burslem Borough and the owner of a pottery works manufacturing stilts
and supports for firing ware in the kilns.
Arrowsmith was involved in local affairs and politics. His son Henry Tomas Arrowsmith took over the business and was similarly heavily involved in local affairs - like his father he was a JP and a governor of the Haywood Hospital which was adjacent to their works. , J. P. , C. C. Lymewood, Wolstanton, Stoke-on- Trent. Born 1860, Burslem, S.O.T. Stilt and Spur Manufacturer. Burslem School Board, 1906; Staffordshire Education Committee, 1919 ; Staffordshire County Council, 1925 ; Member of the Boundaries Local Taxation Road and Bridges, Public Health, Mental Hospital Board and Education Committee, etc. ; Justice of the Peace, 1924 ; Life Governor of Burslem, Haywood and Tunstall Memorial Hospital. "Who's Who in Staffordshire" 1934
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Thomas Arrowsmith & Sons,
Wedgwood & Moorland Road Works, Burslem
Patentees and Manufacturers
Stilts, Spurs and Thimbles
and every reqisite for firing tiles and pottery
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from: 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'
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Moorland Road Burslem
Borough Public Baths Gibson and Sons, earthenware manufacturers. 150 Boulton, A . H. , accountant 152 Arrowsmith, G. T., fireman 154 George, William, fitter 156 Mountford, Jane 158 Arrowsmith, T., and Son , stilt manufacturers 160 Haywood Hospital House doctor, Margaret Douglas French, M.B., B.S. Sister-in-charge, Miss M. E. Moore
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1898 map of Moorland Road,
Burslem
dark blue
= Burslem Borough Baths
light blue = Gibson & Sons, earthenware
manufacturers
red = Thomas Arrowsmith & Son, stilt
manufacturers
green = Haywood Hospital
postcard c.1900 - Haywood
Hospital from Burslem Park
to the right of the hospital is the works of Thomas Arrowsmith & Son
postcard: Don Henshall
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Haywood Hospital In 1882 it was decided to hold a competition for the designing of a purpose-built hospital. By 1885 the plans were available and the winning architect was Mr. G. B. Ford of Ford and Slater, Architects, in Burslem. In January 1886, a piece of land was obtained in Moorland Road adjoining the manufactory of Thomas Arrowsmith & Sons Ltd. The new hospital was officially opened on 20th June 1887 - Thomas Arrowsmith was one of the governors.
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the same view in March 2011
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Burslem Governors of the Haywood Charity
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The Moorland Road gates to
Burslem Park - donated by Mr & Mrs Arrowsmith
presented 1893
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on Mooland Road - It was opened in August 1894.
Like the balustrades on the terrace walls and the Wilkinson fountains, the two drinking fountains were made at Doulton's Rowley Regis factory. Local industrialists helped pay for the children's playground, gates for the Park Road entrance and Moorland Road entrance opposite the Haywood hospital were gifts from Mr and Mrs Arrowsmith. Seats were given by Alderman Robinson; Councillor Lovatt; Alderman Boulton; Councillor Parker and Councillor Wilcox Edge. Pottery manufacturers J. Gibson and Company donated two shelters in the comers of the terrace. Messrs W & J Challinor of Leek sent a boat for the lake. |
some of the buildings of
Arrowsmiths works still exist between
the Haywood Hospital (left) and the house number 156 Moorland Road
(right)
Burslem Board School on
Moorland Road - built in 1910
Henry Thomas Arrowsmith was a
member of the Burslem Education Committee
contents: 2011 adverts
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