Calcining works, Milvale Street, Middleport

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Calcining works, Milvale Street, Middleport
in 1907 - Goodwin's Mill Co. Middleport Mill, ground flint, stone, whiting, and potters' materials.

square calcining kiln in Milvale Street, Middleport, Burslem
- alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal -
Bridge Street was renamed Milvale Street in the mid 1950's

the calcining kiln from the Trent & Mersey Canal
- to the left is the old flour mill -

Former calcining works

Largely early 19th Century, but with later additions reflecting longer period of use. Brick with tiled roofs. Buildings arranged around a yard, with kiln in centre, square in section, with two flues separated only at the apex. Long range to the right formerly single storeyed raised in the early 20th Century to incorporate a narrow tower.

Various other single storey workshops around the perimeter of the site, and a small gabled building adjoining to the left, possibly formerly an engine house, with tall stack at the side of the gable.

Pidduck Street

Fitton & Pidduck, Limited, millers & flour merchants, Hungarian Roller Flour Mills

photos: 2010

Milvale Street

photo: Ian Pearsall

Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport - Google maps 2010

1851 map of the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport
at the bottom right the Port Vale Mills are to the left of bridge and the mills to the right

1898 map showing the development of the area

Bridge Street was renamed Milvale Street in the mid 1950's

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

Bridge Street

(76, Navigation Street)

Goodwin's Mill Co., ground flint, stone, whiting, and potters' materials, Middle-port Mill

Fitton & Pidduck, Limited, millers & flour merchants, Hungarian Roller Flour Mills

Marraway, Elijah, miner, Mill Cottage

2 Smith, Thos., manager of flint mill

4 Garner, Harry, mouldmaker

6 Tinsley, Roger, labourer

8 Sproston, James, ovenman

10 Collins, John, potter

12 Millington, —., dock labourer

14 Shaw, Albert Hy., potter

16 Clowes, William, potter

18 Bennett, Edgar, labourer

20 Davies, Lilian, widow

22 Cartwright, Sarah Ann, widow

24 Malpass, —., warehouse woman

26 Cooper, John, potter

28 Nixon, John Thos., miller

30 Nixon, Wm., cratemaker

32 Green, James, carter

34 Moran. Martin, house painter

36 Hobson, Geo., earthenware manufacturer

—here is Wharf Street—

contents: 2011 photos