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Brush or Pencil.

Decorator's liner brush or pencil. Consisting of a head and quill, and a detachable wooden handle. Used by painters and paintresses to decorate pottery. Roughly 13cm in length. Taken from ...

Brush or Pencil.

Decorating brush or pencil used for the hand-painting of pottery. This brush is called a tracer. Roughly 5cm in length. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection. This object ...

Brush or Pencil.

Decorator's liner brush or pencil. Consisting of a head and quill, and a detachable wooden handle. Used by painters and paintresses to decorate pottery. Roughly 19cm in length. Taken from ...

Brush or Pencil.

Decorating brush or pencil. Square shader. Roughly 16cm in length. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection. This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums. ...

Brushing.

Pottery factory interior showing a woman brushing bone china tea cups on a machine. Brushing the ware ensured the ware was free from dust or grit prior to glazing. Taken at the Shelley pottery factory, ...

Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall

The courtyard of Edwards' Bucknall Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. On the left is a pile of Cornish stone (or China stone) ready for smashing and grinding by the stone crusher alongside. About 1747 it was ...

Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall

George Edwards' Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. Also known as Bucknall Flint Mill it stands on the old mill stream or race taken off the River Trent near Finney Gardens. Ground bone and flint revolutionised ...

Building of the New Wedgwood Factory, Barlaston,

Proposed design for the new Wedgwood Factory front at Barlaston, by architectural practice C.S. White and Keith Murray. Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795) began his apprenticeship as a potter in 1744. ...

Building the clammins, Sutherland Works, Longton

Pottery factory interior with a view of a loaded kiln stacked with saggars prior to firing. The man is ‘building the clammins’, a temporary seal in the wall of the oven with an access point through which ...

Buildings adjacent to Matthew Wardhaugh's Theatre, Longton.

Buildings being demolished in The Strand, Longton. Matthew Wardhaugh (1813-188) was born in Whitechapel, London. He was first employed as a call boy at Drury Lane Theatre, then made a living by reciting ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

The flat shop at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. In the foreground a worker is using a jigger to form the outside shape of a plate. Established in 1851, Hulme and Booth's Central ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

Enamelling at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Enamellers are applying on-glaze enamel paint before a further firing. Enamelling is the process of painting on an underglaze pattern ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

The transferring shop at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. On the right, men are producing paper transfers. Pigment is applied to a copper plate and the design is transferred onto ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

The modelling shop at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Established in 1851, Hulme and Booth's Central Pottery in Burslem was taken over in 1862 by William Leigh and Frederick ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

The slip house at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. On the left is the pug mill used to mix clay in order to remove air bubbles and give it uniform consistency. It was then cut into ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

Aerographing at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Applying glaze by pneumatic spray gun in booths. Aerography was the mechanical spraying of glaze onto pots. It was a useful technique ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

The decorating room at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Paintresses are hand decorating dishes. Established in 1851, Hulme and Booth's Central Pottery in Burslem was taken over ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

The casting shop at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Workers are filling plaster of paris moulds with liquid slip. Established in 1851, Hulme and Booth's Central Pottery in Burslem ...