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Stoke-on-Trent - Potworks of the week
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Gordon Pottery, Pinnox Street, Burslem
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NOTE: There was also a Gordon Pottery in Longton and a Gordon Works in Stoke (unrelated to the works in Tunstall) |
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From |
To |
Occupier |
Comments |
| 1886 |
1893 |
Cumberlidge & Humphreys |
William Myatt Cumberlidge and Joseph Humphreys moved to the newly build Gordon Pottery in 1886 |
| 1893 |
1896 |
Humphreys Brothers | John Humphreys jnr joined the business and in October 1893 Cumberlidge left. The business continued as Humphreys Brothers. By 1896 the business was bankrupt |
| 1899 |
1907 |
Gater, Hall & Co |
Gater, Hall operated the pottery from c.1899 to 1907 - they called the works "The New Gordon Pottery" Around 1905 Thomas Gater purchased the Royal Overhouse Pottery in Burslem and in 1907 the Gater Hall manufacturing was moved there. In anticipation of the move to the Royal Overhouse Pottery the Gordon Pottery was advertised for let in 1906 and it would be available in March 1907. |
| 1909 |
1914 |
Alfred Colley & Co Ltd | Alfred Colley & Co took over the rental from Gater Hall and started operation in 1909. |
| 1915 |
c.1960 |
A. G. Richardson |
This business was founded in 1915 by Albert G. Richardson at the Gordon Pottery, Tunstall where they extended the works after a very short period as business increased. In 1934 they acquired the Britannia Pottery, Cobridge and also continued at the Gordon Pottery. c.1942 the works were closed as part of the manufacturing consolidation during World War II After the war the works opened again and the business continued for some time. 1964 maps records the works as "Sheet Metal Works" and so Richardson stopped using the Gordon Pottery prior to this date. |
| To let, March 1907,
Gordon Pottery, Tunstall, now occupied by Gater, Hall & Co, ; the
factory contains 2 biscuit and 2 glost, 4 kilns; it is fitted up
throughout with modern machinery, and suitable for bother foreign and
home markets - Apply, John Lucas, Alsager : or Empson Alcock, Solicitor, Burslem |
Pottery Gazette, November 1906
The
Gordon Pottery, Tunstall - 1969
watercolour painting by Reginald
Haggar 1905-1988
from: Pottery Gazette & Glass
Trade Review Reference Book Directory, 1947
- click the map for more details -
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7 Hollinshead & Kirkham 8 Johnson Bros. (Hanley), Ltd. 9 Grenville Pottery, Ltd. 10 W. H. Grindley & Co., Ltd. 11 Thos. Dean & Sons, Ltd. 12 A. G. Richardson & Co., Ltd. 13 Grindley Hotel Ware Co., Ltd. 14 Wedgwood & Co., Ltd. 15 George Clews & Co., Ltd. |
OS map 1882
before
the building of the Gordon Pottery in 1885
Pinnox Street and Gibson Street are not yet built and
the area where the works will be built is an old colliery and brickworks
OS map 1899
Pinnox
Street and Gibson Street are now built
the Gordon Pottery is shown in red
OS map 1925
the
Gordon Pottery has been expanded and taken
the place of some of the houses on Williamson Street
OS map 1951
the
Gordon Pottery has expanded further
OS map 1964
the location of the Gordon Pottery is recorded as 'Sheet metal Works' and 'Warehouse'
The
Gordon Pottery was bounded by Pinnox Street and Gibson Street in Tunstall
This
view is of the north side of Pinnox Street,
Gibson Street runs off to the right
The building on the corner with the overhang, still stands (2018)
Photo:
1964 Mr Bert Bentley
the same view in 2012
Google Street View of Pinnox Street
with Gibson Street to the right
The
Gordon Pottery is mostly demolished and the site is now small industrial units,
although some of the pottery works can still be seen standing and the terraced houses,
dating from the 1880s, at the end of Pinnox Street still stand
The photograph shows bottle ovens
of the Gordon Pottery from Gibson Street.
Photo: 1964 Mr Bert Bentley
- images courtesy of Stoke-on-Trent City Archives -
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