"The firm of
ENOCH WOOD AND SONS take the lead as Earthenware manufacturers, and have
occupied that position for many years; the head of the house, Enoch Wood, Esq.,
whose name we have had occasion to introduce on several previous occasions,
commenced business, in 1783, on his own account, and, in 1790, was joined by
James Caldwell, Esq., late of Linley-Wood; the business being then from that
time conducted under the firm of "Enoch Wood & Caldwell," until
the year 1818, when Mr Wood purchased Mr Caldwell's property in the concern, and
the present firm of Enoch Wood and Sons had its commencement."
"The
Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent", John Ward, 1843
"Mr.
Wood erected a fountain, about 1798, which supplied water to the
townspeople by means of an engine, at the manufactory, which pumped the
water through pipes laid to a pillar containing the fountain near to the
front of the works. This was used freely by the public."
Warrillow
See the following for details on:
Enoch Wood
Pictures
of the factory in 1843
1851 map of
Wood's Works
The corner of the Fountain Place Works
undergoing restoration in 2000.
Wood's Fountain Place factory,
Burslem in 1840
Enoch Wood started business as a
pottery in 1783.
In 1789 he build the Fountain Place Works.
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for more -
Fountain Place Works after
restoration
Photos acknowledgement: Neil Brittain
- April 2015
"They occupy the
sites of four ancient pot-works, near together, on the two sides of the old
Pack-Horse-Lane, (formerly a public thoroughfare from Burslem to Newcastle, but
now stopped up,) and which are connected by means of a subterraneous passage, as
well as by the arched gallery shewn in the first of the two
plates introduced hereafter, which exhibits the east front of the large
manufactory in Fountain-Place, erected by Mr Wood in 1789."
Ward, 1843
The view walking up Pack Horse Lane
Pack Horse Lane ran down one
side of the Wood works towards Longport.
This was the road between Burslem
and
Newcastle under Lyme before Newcastle Road
was built.
Another pack horse road
(Liverpool Road) ran along the front of the works - from Burslem to
Tunstall, known as The Sytch, now Westport Road, where at the far end it
joins the main Tunstall to Newcastle Road. Here was a Toll Gate and Toll
House.
links to related
information:
- the
Fountain Place Works is a listed building -
- see
more on the Fountain Place Works -
- the
packhorse lane to Newcastle -
(1714-1837)
