Description:The trimming shop at Taylor, Tunnicliff's Eastwood factory, Hanley.
The firm was founded in 1867 by Thomas Taylor and William Tunnicliff, eventually concentrating on making specialised pottery for the electrical industry. Having outgrown its first small factory in Shelton, the company moved to Eastwood, Hanley. To meet demand additional factories were added at Longton and, in 1922 on the former racecourse site off Whitebridge Lane, Stone. In 1971 the Eastwood factory closed and Taylor Tunnicliff and Bullers Ltd of Milton amalgamated to form Allied Insulators. The Stone factory closed in 1985 and the site became the Whitebridge Lane Industrial Estate.