The Middleport Pottery of Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)  

Carrying the pottery ware to be fired under the watchful eye of the Manger

 

Location 14 on the plan

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The managers office window - it was diamond
shaped so that he could see what was going on in the yard

The manager would have seen workers  carrying ware into the kiln area to be fired

The yard behind the factory frontage
to the right are the stairs to the cup shop and the flat shop

"similar ranges of buildings running back from its extremities and enclosing 
a large space of ground crossed with several parallel lines of buildings"

On the left is the kiln shop and on the right (1st floor) the transfer shop

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