Big Works - (by 1781)
On the north-east side of
the Newcastle canal - opposite Spode's pottery works.
It seems to have originated in a pottery sold in 1781 by Elizabeth Webster
to Thomas and rebuilt by him.
Bridge Bank Works
- Wolfe added a works (the Bridge bank Works) on the opposite side of Church
Street. These works were held by Smith & Jarvis at the beginning of the 19th
century.
In 1818
Thomas's widow Rachel let the two works to William Adams. The Adams family
continued to work the old Wolfe factories until c.1862.
In the 1870's Wolfe Street (part of which is now Kingsway) was run through
part of the Big Works.
Thomas Hargreaves Map of 1832
NOTE: by the time of this map the Wolfe works were run by William Adams
Stoke-upon-Trent c.1819 - The
view is along Church Street.
To the immediate left is the Wheatsheaf Public House (a coaching inn).
Next the Wheatsheaf is Wolfe's "Big Works"
To the right of the picture is Wolfe's china factory - the Bridge Bank works
The railings in front of the works
is the Newcastle Canal - the canal went underneath
Church Street and the Wheatsheaf Inn and then ran alongside Spode's and Wolfe's
works.
picture: "Ten Generations of a Potting Family"
on the Newcastle Canal
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The tunnels where the canal enters Stoke town c.1890
This photo shows this location where the canal goes into two
tunnels - one to the right into the Wolfe "Big Works" [at the
time of this photo the works were operated by Adams] and one
under Stoke town centre and onto the Trent and Mersey canal.
Above the tunnels
is the flint mill -
to the left are the imposing industrial buildings of Minton,
with a long three-story building, rising to four storeys in the
centre |
Sources:
Jewitt's "Ceramic Art of Great Britain,
1800-1900".
Godden, "Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks"
