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Stoke-on-Trent - Potworks of the week |
Cyples Old Pottery, Market Street, Longton
These works were erected in 1881, taking their name from the original Cyples pottery.
1898 - 1912 - G L Bently & Co
1923 - 1957 - J T Fell (Longton) Ltd
"Photograph taken looking down Smithy Lane from across St Martin's Lane.
J.T. Fell & Co were earthenware manufacturers, founded in the early 1920s. The company closed in 1957."ŠLovatt Collection, Stoke on Trent City Archives
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ŠLovatt Collection, Stoke on Trent City Archives
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Market Street Longton
the top end of the row of old buildings is Smithy Lane
the location of the frontage
of the Cyples
Pottery
now (2009) occupied by Newbold Opticians
Cyples Family, Lane End The Cyples family potted in Market Street, Lane End, in the second half of the eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century.
In 1805 Jesse Cyples was listed as a maker of Egyptian black. After Jesse Cyples' death, the business was continued by his widow, Lydia Cyples (nee Steel, born 1775 died 1845) until her death, her sons, Richard Cyples and William Cyples (born 1804 died 1865) assisting her. They made china and Egyptian black, (or basaltes).
Chaffers records the mark 'I. C Y P L E S' or 'CYPLES' incised. The impressed mark 'CYPLES' is also known on a basaltes teakettle. Mankowitz & Haggar Encyclopedia of English Pottery |
1881
Cyples's Old Pottery
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1898 map of Longton showing the location of Cyples Old Pottery on
Market Street
note the location of Cyples Lane
and Smithy Lane
Cyples Lane in purple and Smithy Lane in
blue - The 1881 Cyples's Old Pottery shown by the red arrow