Middleport Factories on Milvale and Pidduck Street.

The calcining kilns are a grade 2 listed building (heritage no. 102A)

Nearby on the Caldon Canal is Price and Kensington Potteries, Longport Wharf, Burgess and Leigh and  Steelite. Just behind and across the canal is one of H & R Johnson factories. On Newcastle Lane (towards Burslem) are some 17thC cottages.


Price's bread factory.


Factory on the right of Pidduck Street, next to bridge 125.

This factory was a flour mill and later Price's bread factory.

Just out of site is the factory of Burgess and Leigh.

At the front of Price's bread factory in Milvale Street

 

At the front of Price's bread factory in Milvale Street. A sign says 'Morrilew Pottery' on the small outbuilding. 
Corner of Pidduck St and Milvale St.

Corner of Pidduck St and Milvale St.
A grade 2 listed building (heritage no. 102A), brick and tiled roof, courtyard and kilns.

 Early 19th C calcining works with later additions.

A grade 2 listed building (heritage no. 102A), brick and tiled roof, courtyard and kilns.

The canal is the Trent and Mersey and we are looking towards Etruria. 

Factory is on the left of Pidduck Street - looking from Milvale Street towards the canal.

 
Square kilns of the calcining works

 

Square kilns of the calcining works
the loading bay

Detail of the yard and the loading bay where the calcined product was loaded in the barges.
Factory just by Burgess and Leigh and backing right onto the Trent and Mersey Canal. Taken from the canal bank.

The dilapidated wooden structure on the frontage is a lift which was used to load and offload the barges.

On the pediment the carving reads 

 '1890 Anderton Co.'

Photos taken October 1999 - S.C.Birks

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