The Middleport Pottery of Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)  

The hollow ware shop

 

Location 15 on the plan

Next: the firing kiln
Previous: the factory yard

From the yard we enter the ground floor hollow ware shop.

Flatware is produced on a jigger machine and hollow ware (cups, bowls etc.) is produced on a semi-automatic machine called a jolly.

 

The jolly is used to produce hollowware

Interchangeable blades - used to produce different shaped ware

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