Hand Casting.

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Date:1930 - 1939 (c.)

Description:Pottery factory interior showing a worker hand casting.

The caster is pouring liquid clay, known as slip, into a plaster mould.

Unfired ware sits on the surrounding shelves.

The caster's name is Jim Wilson.

Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.

This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.

Related themes:

Working Wear Pottery Factories People Manufacturing Industrial Buildings Factory Interiors Costume & Textiles Ceramics Business, Trade & Industry

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Image courtesy of: Cheddleton Flint Mill Trust

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Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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