Empire Works & Winton Pottery

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

The Empire Porcelain Company was in business by 1895
The works opened about 1896
There were three pottery factories on Stoke Road, built side by side straddling Elgin and Newlands Street.
Grimwades operated the Winton Pottery and they also had an 'Elgin Pottery' - this may
have been the centre works, which was later operated by the Empire Porcelain Company.
Certainly by 1935 the centre works was part of the Empire Works - there is a footbridge joining them.

- click for more information on the Empire Porcelain Company -

Winton Pottery, Hanley
Stoke Road, Shelton, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

The Winton Pottery, adjacent to the Empire Works, was started in 1885 by Leonard Lumsden Grimwade and his brothers Sydney Richard and Edward.
The Winton Pottery takes it's name from Winton's Wood.

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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