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Stoke-on-Trent - Potworks of the week
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Oliver's Mill site - calcining bottle ovens on Newport Lane
Oliver's Mill site -
calcining bottle ovens on Newport Lane
This is the Trent & Mersey Canal - just at the point of the junction with
the Burslem Branch Canal
site of the former Burslem
Branch Canal
the mill sits right on the
bank of the canal for easy transport of the raw and finished material
Potteries Preservation Trust
- Bottle Oven Conservation Scheme
the 'hovel' (outer skin) of
the round calcining kiln
The HOVEL acts as a chimney;
taking away the smoke, creating air flow and
protecting the oven inside from the weather and uneven draughts.
the steel 'bonts' strengthen
the oven as it expands and contracts during the firing
the square calcining kiln
alongside Newport Lane
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FLINT & STONE GRINDERS. Furlong Mills Co.,Ltd., Furlong-lane Goodwin's Mills Co ., Middleport Mill, Bridge-street Hammersley.; Geo., Brownhills Mill,Chester-street Oliver and Sons, Longport Mills, Trubshaw Cross Malkin, Thomas, Flint Works, Newport-lane North Staffordshire Pulverising Co., Newport-lane, Middleport |
from:
1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries,
Newcastle & District'
(the year before Oliver & Sons built this new calcining works on Newport
Lane)
1898 map showing Newport Lane
and the canal system
The Trent & Mersey canal runs along the bottom of the map and fromtop to bottom runs the Burslem canal.
The
North
Staffordshire Pulverising Co. mill is shown in blue and the Thomas
Malkin flint works was
contained in the Newport Pottery shown in green.
The red circle is the location of the Oliver mill which was yet to be built.
1907 advert for the
Oliver Longport Flint Mill
jut before the Newport Lane works was
built
contents: 2011 photos
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Related pages Goodwin's Mill Co. Middleport Mill Malkin's Newport Pottery, Burslem Waterfront - The Middleport-Longport length of the Trent and Mersey Canal is the most historic, interesting and exciting stretch of waterside in the city. also see.. Advert
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