Stoke-on-Trent - Potworks of the week


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Empire Works, Hanley
Stoke Road, Shelton, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent 

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Empire Porcelain Company,
semi-porcelain manufacturers 
and fancy goods manufacturers

Grimwades Ltd.
earthenware and toilet manufacturers
Winton Pottery
  

 

from..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 
'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'

 


 


1953 map showing Grimwade's Winton Pottery and the Empire Works
The Empire Works was two buildings on either side of Elgin Street - joined 
by a high level footbridge.
 



To the left is the Winton Pottery and to the right is the remaining building of the Empire Works
in the centre there is a petrol station which is situated on the site of the second
building of the Empire Works
Stoke Road runs along the bottom of the photo    

 

 
view from the rear of the works - Stoke Road runs at the top of the photo

Bing Maps 2014


 


1935 photo - view from the rear of the works
The Winton Works to the right, next to the railway lines
the Empire Works to the left 
the high level footbridge which connnected the two buildings either side of Elgin Street can clearly be seen

 

 


red rectangle - site of the Winton and Empire works
Purple oval - North Stafford Hotel
Blue area - Stoke Railway Station
Light blue oval - St. Peter's Church
Yellow rectangle - Minton Hollins' Tile Works
the Trent & Mersey Canal runs vertically from bottom centre

The railway station and environs, Stoke-on-Trent, 1935

Britain from Above


 


Empire Works in Stoke Road
this is the part of the works between Elgin and Haywood Streets

the impressive facade remains - now converted into shops
at the top left of the photo can be seen the bricked up area
which was once part of the high level footbridge between 
the two parts of the factory

 

 


Empire Works in Stoke Road
these works were in operation as the Empire Porcelain Company from 1896 to 1967

 


Detail on the building

photos: Feb 2010


 

    

   

typical marks used from 1896 onwards



EMPIRE
ENGLAND
SHELTON 
IVORY

printed mark  used in the 1940's and 1950's

this mark bears "12 41" 
stands for December 1941

"Shelton Ivory" used as a trade name



Large hand painted vases from the Empire Porcelain Co




1890
map showing that this area is not yet developed
at the top left is the edge of Hanley Cemetery which was opened in 1860




1900 map showing the developement of the area
at the top right is the edge of Hanley Park which was opened in 1897


 


1937 map of the area

 

 


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