The Middleport Pottery of
Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)
Frontage of the Middleport Pottery
The partners Burgess & Leigh had started business in the 1850's in Tunstall.
They moved to the Central Pottery, Burslem in 1862 and then to the Hill Pottery, also in Burslem town, in 1867 where they rented space at both of these works.
In 1889 they move the business to the Middleport Pottery works which purpose built for them in 1888.
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1888
B&L
Middleport Pottery
Burleigh Ware - (famous world over ) starts life in this Stoke-on-Trent factory.
The impressive frontage on Port
Street, Middleport, Burslem.
Two story front range, built
of plan red brick with a tiled roof.
It has five evenly spaced gabled bays, four of them with lunette windows
and the fifth forming the arched coach entrance at the northern end
of the works.
the arched coach entrance at the northern
end of the works
The Middleport Pottery in 2011
Bing Maps
| The works were built on the site of
an old saggar manufactory alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal, in an undeveloped
area, which soon after the erection of the new factory gained a wharf and boat
yard, and quickly became surrounded by terraced housing.
The boat yard buildings are to the left of the picture. |
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of the factory from the canal side
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