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Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

Dipping at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Tea cups and dishes are being dipped in vats of glaze. Established in 1851, Hulme and Booth's Central Pottery in Burslem was taken ...

Burgess & Leigh, Middleport

The Manager’s Office 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

Placing at Burgess & Leigh's pottery, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Loading saggars in the bottle kiln. Saggars are placed in ‘bungs’ about 16 feet high in concentric circles. The ladders are known as ...

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 Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent

Burgess & Leigh built the Middleport Pottery alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in 1888-89 and it is the only complete working Victorian pottery left in Stoke-on-Trent (2o18). Traditional pottery works ...

Burgess & Leigh, Port Street, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent

A crowded printing room at Burgess & Leigh in the mid 1930’s. Much of the printing was still done by hand. Notice the roller machine in the centre of the picture. This would be used for making patterned ...

Burgess and Leigh Pottery, Port Street, Middleport

This plan shows the front of the Burgess and Leigh Pottery factory in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. It was built before 1922 and the gates of the building have 'Middleport Pottery' written above them. The ...

Burley pit engine at Apedale colliery, Chesterton

Burley Pit, Apedale

Apedale colliery, the Burley pit (c. 1850-1926) in early 1900’s. This photograph shows the bridge carrying the tub-way from the Watermills colliery to the Burley screens. There is a tub (the local name ...

Burley Pit, Chesterton

Burley Pit was part of Apedale colliery and was open between about 1850 and 1926. This photograph was taken by Thomas Warham, a local photographer, who took many photographs of Audley and its surrounding ...

Burman's Cooperage, Dallow Street, Burton-On-Trent

Completed and unfinished casks at Burman's Cooperage. The company was founded in 1899. The original firm was called J. Burman & Son, Hawkins Lane, Burton-On-Trent. It was a cask repair firm only. ...

Burndhurst Mill, Lower Loxley

An early photograph of Burndhurst Mill, on the A518 Stafford Road near Lower Loxley, Uttoxeter. Joseph and Harriet Fisher tenanted this mill from 1883 to 1908, after which his son Allan Charles took ...

Burndhurst Mill, Lower Loxley

Burndhurst Mill from the West side showing the weir below the sluice on the River Blythe. Burndhurst Mill was built in the 18th century and is Grade II listed.

Burndhurst Mill, Lower Loxley

The mill and the surrounding fields were regularly subject to flooding. Due to severe flooding in 1947 water reached three feet deep in the house. Burndhurst Mill was built in the 18th century and ...

Burndhurst Mill, Lower Loxley

Burndhurst Mill was built in the 18th century and is Grade II listed. It was bought by the Brough family in 1979.

Burndhurst Mill, near Lower Loxley, Uttoxeter

This view of Burndhurst Mill, was taken from the A518 road bridge over the River Blithe, and shows the water wheel and the weir. Photograph taken by Jim Foley.

Burndhurst Mill, near Lower Loxley, Uttoxeter

Roland Bebbington on the bridge over the River Blithe by Burndhurst Mill sometime in the 1970s. Mr.Bebbington was a tenant at the mill from 1939 during the ownership of Mr. Riley, the owner of the shoe-making ...

Burnishing in a pottery factory

Pottery factory interior with a view of a woman in the process of burnishing a plate. Burnishing Burnishing was the process whereby fired gold applications were rubbed to produce a lustrous finish. Silver ...