Master Potters in Georgian Burslem (1714-1837)

 

 


 

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Location 3 on the index map

Wedgwood Over House Estate

 

 

The Overhouse estate was one of the tree estates that the Wedgwood family owned in Burslem: The Overhouse estate, the Red Lion estate and the Church yard estate. 

"In 1787, the record runs, ‘Thomas Wedgwood, Manufacturer of Cream-coloured Ware and China glazed Ware, painted with blue’ worked the Overhouse Pottery at Burslem. The old works were situated at the back and side of the Overhouse, with entrance in Wedgwood Place, where that street joined Scotia Road."  Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain

 

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The Overhouse Pottery in 1851 before it was replaced in 1869

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This works built in 1869 stands on the site of
Wedgwood's Over House Estate

This factory stands on the site previously occupied by a large, high-class dwelling known as the Over House, and that this and the Big House were occupied by two branches of the Wedgwood family during the 18th century.

 


Edward Challinor commenced business here AD 1819 and rebuilt the premises AD 1869
Over House Manufactory

 

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