Eastwood Works, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
"Charles Meakin had a manufactory for American granite-ware at the Eastwood Pottery, Lichfield Street, from 1883 to 1889."
Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900
Eastwood Pottery, which had been established by Charles, was absorbed in the larger company of his brothers James and George in 1887. The Eastwood Pottery was a well-planned factory with three biscuit and four glost ovens, the whole lay-out being designed to ensure effective labour-saving production.
The Eastwood factory was sold in 1958 and the Meakin company enlarged the Eagle Pottery. At the turn of the 20thC the works is run by the Bridgewater Pottery.
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Barges tied up at the Meakin
Eastwood Pottery, Hanley. 1952
The canal is the Caldon Canal
photo 1999
Looking up Lichfield Street with the
Eastwood Pottery (now Bridgewater Pottery factory)
in the centre of the picture -
the Caldon Canal is visible between the railings of the bridge on the right of
the picture.
Caldon Canal
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