Almost opposite the Hill Top Sunday School stood Samuel Alcock's Hill Top Pottery. This was one of the most impressive factories when it was built in 1839 on the site of a previous pottery works.

on Hill Pottery & its owners

Scrivens report on Alcock's works:

This factory is one of the largest and best conducted in the Potteries. The recent building, comprising the show and ware-rooms, painting, and burnishing rooms, with offices, &c. is of an elegant design ; the rooms are very lofty , spacious, well ventilated, and healthy ; most of the workshops in other parts are of a similar kind with others.

on Child Labour in the Potteries

Known variously as: Old Hill Pottery, The Hill Top Pottery or Hill Pottery

Rebuilt for Samuel Alcock in 1839 and described at the
time as 'the most striking and ornamental object of its kind
within the precincts of the borough'
(from Ward 1843)

The Hill Pottery 
detail of the impressive front entrance - note the overly ornate Venetian Window above the door.

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