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Tunstall - Pinnox Potters
A number of pottery works existed in
the Pinnox area
Richardson's pottery
factory, Pinnox Street - 1960
photo: © Gladstone Pottery
Museum Photographic Collection (Mr Mountford)
Staffordshire Past Tracks
Aerial view of Pinnox factory
(around 1953)
"Upon transfer
to the Pinnox Works in Tunstall in 1903... "The manufacture of general
earthenware was abandoned, and the new plant was devoted exclusively to
the production of tiles, except for a small amount of sanitary ware made,
until 1925, on behalf of the sister house of Edward Johns & Co."
From: "A Century of Progress
1837-1937" a publication to commemorate The Centenary of Richards Tiles
Ltd.
The corner of the Pinnox Works on Scotia
Road, Tunstall
The photo is taken looking
through the span of a railway mineral-line (the bridge, of which, runs
along the top of the photo) the street running to the left (between Walter
Sylvesters and the Potworks) is Williamson Street.
The Asda supermarket has replaced the potworks and a mini-roundabout has
replaced the junction between Scotia Road and Williamson Street.
Nearby are still Pinnox Street and Railway Street as a reminder to
features now disappeared.
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a Sylvester
"During
the late nineteenth century the commonest type of a fatal mine
accident was a roof collapse caused by knocking out the pit props
with a sledgehammer. In order to try and counter this problem,
Walter Sylvester, who worked for a colliery in North Staffordshire,
invented a ratcheted pulling device, which could be attached to the
pit props by a long chain and used to haul them out without any
danger to the operator. It could also be used for pulling trucks and
other heavy items, and tightening-up cables. It was patented in
1895; known locally as a "Walter" it soon became widely used in
mining and other industries as the "Sylvester", and was still made
under that name until the 1970s. The use of a Sylvester for safety
was made mandatory by the Coal Mine Act of 1911. However modern
mining techniques eventually made them superfluous, also they could
be dangerous if used improperly, and they were eventually banned by
the Coal Board in 1978."
From: RRCPC
Newsletter, Volume 38 Number 2 Article 1 - May 2001 |
G. Podmore, Walker & Co.
took over the Unicorn Pottery and Pinnox Works in Tunstall in 1834.
Earthenware manufacturers at Well Street (c.1843-53), at Amicable Street
- Pinnox Works (c.1850-59) and Swan Bank (c.1835-59), Tunstall,
Stoke-on-Trent
In 1860 the Amicable Street -
Pinnox Works was continued by
Wedgwood & Co
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