Memories of Stoke-on-Trent people - Ken
Green
Ken Green
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Life in the Ceramic Tile Industry
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In 1954 we began to look around for land on which to build new factory units to replace the old floor tile plants at the Pinnox and Hallfield factories and also to replace wall tile biscuit plant at the Pinnox factory.
Land was purchased adjacent to Dividy Road, Adderley Green; a map of which is shown on another page of this web-site
Aerial view of the Adderley Green works
It was decided to also build a new wall tile factory to help satisfy the ever-increasing demand. Was this to be a single fire or a twice fire factory? There were many pros and cons. We decided on the more technically difficult single fire process and it was for this that we constructed, during 1955, the first new unit, which we called AG1. The unit was commissioned in 1956 and opened by Peter May, Surrey and England Cricket Captain.
Princess Margaret officially opened the Adderley Green factory in 1958
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