1948-54
Information from the
Hulme family web site:
William Hulme (snr.
1860-1932) was born in December 1860. He had children William (b.1889), Mary (b.1892), Charlotte (b.1897), Marion (b.1900) and Joseph (b.1904).
William Hulme snr. had joined his father and brother as Pottery Packers at the age of 12 and subsequently became a Saggar Maker. By the age of 20, his declared occupation was that of a Travelling China Salesman.
He formed alliances and partnerships with potters to sell their wares overseas.
In the last few years of the 19th century, William leased the North Road Pottery at the Leek New Road end of North Road, Cobridge and began manufacturing earthenware.
In 1901 the family was resident at 2 Abbey
Street, Cobridge (100 yards up Leek New Road from North Road) and William declared his occupation as an Earthenware Manufacturer.
In a 1907 directory Wm Hulme is listed as an earthenware manufacturer
adjacent to the North Road Brick Works.
1899 map showing
Abbey Street
- click map for more on Abbey
Street -
the
Brick Works (green rectangle) was the
North Road Brick Works operated by W. Palmer
on the corner of Leek New Road and Abbey Street was the
earthenware manufacturer - William Hulme (purple
rectangle)
Hulme, Wm.,
Earthenware manufacturer
North Road Pottery at the corner of Leek New Road
and Abbey Street, at the junction of North Road
from: 1907
Staffordshire Sentinel
'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'
1949 map
showing Abbey Street
and the Argyle Pottery
The Argyle Pottery Works was built on the corner of Leek New Road and Abbey Street
and appears to have replaced the North Road Works
In 1906, William Jnr. joined his father in the Earthenware Manufacturing business.
William Jnr took over the running of the business in 1925, registered his well known Hulme Bottle Kiln Trademark and formed a working relationship with Bourne & Leigh.
Argyle Works
all that
remains of the Argyle Works is the derelict offices of a business unit
Google Streetview - 2009
