The Middleport Pottery of
Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)
Yard between the buildings
Location 7 on
the plan
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Pug Mills which remove air from the clay
The view in the yard between the kiln shop (left)
and the flat (plates) shop on the right.
the next part of the tour takes us up the stairs on the right to
the mould maker and the mould store.
the original layout of the
works
the blue arrow shows the direction we are looking in
the yard between the
departments
"a large space of ground crossed with several parallel lines of buildings, enclosing spacious courts or yards"
from the offices the supervisors had a view in
both directions
Next: the mould maker
Previous: the
Pug Mills which remove air from the clay