The Middleport Pottery of
Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)
Terraced housing - the view from the transfer room window
Location 24 on the plan
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The transfer room is on the 1st floor of the frontage part of the building in Port Street.
If we look from the window we can see the backs of the terraced houses opposite the potworks.These houses did not exist when the factory was first built. They were built shortly afterwards and mainly occupied by the pottery workers.
At the end of the transfer shop is the stairs down to the offices
note the warning "for office use only" - no short-cut to the factory gates for the workers here!
The view from the window - rear of the terraced housing
these are rear of the houses in Harper
Street (was Albion Street)
the closeness of the houses,
works and bottle kiln
Port Street
from Port Street - the frontage
of the works dominates the housing
1898 map shows that only half
of Port Street is laid out with houses at this time
a number of streets in the city were
renamed in the mid 1950's and this affected a number of streets shown on this
map...
Albion Street became Harper
Street
Earl Street became Yale Street
Stanley Street became Morton Street
Forster Street became Woolrich Street
Wharf Strret became Burgess Street
James Street became Travers Street
Bridge Street became Milvale Street
the following is
a list of the occupants of the houses in nearby streets in 1907
from: 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries,
Newcastle & District'
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Port
Street Anderton Company, Ltd., canal carriers, Middleport Dockyard. Burgess and Leigh, general earthenware manufacturers, Middleport Pottery. 2 Latimer, Hugh, potter's fireman 4 Bowcock, Arthur, organ builder 6 Rowe, John, placer 8 Price, John, Miner 10 Cook, Geo., saggar maker 12 Ball, Thos., pot presser 16 Bratt, Samuel, potter 18 Rowe, George, glost placer 20 Mosson, Wm., glost placer 22 Allen, Jos., dock labourer 24 Gater, Jos. Henry, ovenman 26 Hewitt, James, painter 28 Peclley, Enoch, placer 30 Blackhurst, Emma, widow —Here is Albion Street— |
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James Street 1 Cartlidge, William, mould-maker 3 Higgs, Wm. Arthur, signal-man 5 Dale, John, miner 7 Baskerville, Eliza, widow 9 Astbury, Elizabeth, widow 13 Heath, Arthur, joiner 15 Pope, William, potter 19 Kirkham, James, cloth placer 21 Cooper, Agnes, widow 23 Bloor, Wilson, potter's printer 25 Gray, Harry, painter and plumber 27 Clowes, Samuel, potter's placer 29 Brereton, William, miner 31 Farrell, James, labourer 33 Adams, Charles, painter 35 Collinson, Ellen, widow 37 Bebbington, John, labourer 39 Bostock. Ralph, marlgetter 41 Jones, Edward, baker 43 Buxton, William, carter 45 Hood, Harriet, widow 47 Blunn, Wm., glost placer 49 Bowler, John, bricklayer 53 Cooper, Stephen, ovenman 55 Chapman, Jane, grocer 57 Barber, Albert, potter 59 Hawkes, Percy, miner 61 Eardley, Samuel, sanitary presser 63 Unwin, Wm. Henry, engine tenter 65 Phillips, Samuel, miner 67 Coates, Geo. Fredk., assurance agent 69 Moss, Thomas, potter 71 Travers, Clement, bricklayer 73 Lakin, Arthur, milkseller 76 Morris, William, boot and shoe repairer 2 Pepper. Albert Ed., potter 4 Harper. John, waggoner 6 Byker, Enoch, waggoner —Here is -Maddock Street— |
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