Ivy House (Hanley)

Hanley - Ivy House Area - going towards Ash Bank, Bucknall and Bentillee estates.

	Relevant Links: More on Caldon canal: 1775 map of Stoke-on-Trent
	Meakins Eagle factory - looking from the draw bridge on Ivy House Road. The canal is the Cauldon. more on Cauldon Canal
	Meakins factory in bygone days.
	The name plaque at the entrance to the works more on J & G Meakin
	Front entrance of the J & G Meakin Factory
	Meakin factory offices
	Goodwin foundry - started 1883 Diagonally opposite the Meakin factory. Taken from the drawbridge on Ivy-House Road. more on Goodwins
	Lime Kiln Bank (used to be known as 'Bucknall by the Hill') looking towards Bucknall Taken in the rush hour This bank used to be such a problem for transport that it had to be heavily stone paved.
	The 'Ivy House' public house on the junction between Ivy House and Bucknall New Road
	Ivy House Hall on Lime Kiln Bank The estate still remained until 1911. (Now the Territorial Army barracks)
	Diagonally opposite the 'Ivy House' public house - an old horse trough. Note the fountain on the side for human use. The reason for the drinking trough was that this was the site of the Ivy House Toll Gate. This stood until the 1870's. There was one at the Junction of Keelings lane at Upper Green in 1820 and one to the South West a the junction of Hulton Street and Town Road.
	'To Man and Beast All Akin' 'G. Wedgwood. 1879'

Photos taken October 1999 - S.C.Birks

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