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William
Littler, Josiah Wedgwood |
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Source:
"The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent" John Ward, 1843 |
"Mr.
William Littler, of Brownhills, near Burslem, whose father had carried on
business there as a Potter, and left to his son a small landed estate,
embarked in some expensive attempts to produce and article resembling oriental
china; he commenced business about the year 1745, when he attained his
majority, and a few years afterwards removed the seat of his manufacture to
Longton Hall, where he prosecuted his experiments with very good success, as
regarded the beauty and delicacy of his china, but with disastrous results to
himself ….. the specimens of Mr. Littler's china exhibit great lightness and
beauty…
Mr.
Littler had the merit of first making use of the fluid glaze which Mr. Enoch
Booth after wards improved upon."
"Mr.
Josiah Wedgwood commenced business in Burslem, in the year 1756, and first
occupied a small house and Potwork, where the new Market-house now stands. He
afterwards held a more extensive set of works, which, from his having erected
a cupola, with a bell, was called the Bell Works, and in a very successful
manner prosecuted the business, introducing numerous improvements in its
manual and chemical details, as well as in the extent and variety of its
productions.
During
the progress of making the Grand Trunk Canal, he purchased as considerable
estate in Shelton, which it intersected, and erected on its banks a very
extensive manufactory; also an elegant mansion near for his own residence, and
a great number of cottages for his workmen contiguous to the manufactory, to
which new village he gave the classical name, "Etruria" and removed
thither partly in 1769 and wholly in 1771."
The Brick
House Works (Bell Works)
Josiah Wedgwood's second factory
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