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Picture of typical Staffordshire china bottle ovens at Alma Works, Uttoxeter Road, Longton taken c 1953-1957. Note the man repairing the furthest of the three ovens. I wonder what his story was and why he was living there? Any genealogists reading this may wish to enlighten me!
Map showing relativity of Normacot Road (Sutherland Works), Chelson Street (Delphine Works), Uttoxeter Road (Alma Works and Chapman China) and Wood Street (Ashwood Hotel) According to Gladstone Pottery Museum, this picture was taken c1910–1919 and was “probably taken at Chapman's pottery factory, Longton”. However, Chapman China existed between 1898 and 1905 and D Chapman & Sons existed between1882 and1902, both companies ending prior to the earliest time this picture was supposed to have been taken (ie 1910). Therefore, which Chapman’s pottery factory was it? The picture shows Staffordshire china factory interior showing a female pottery worker gilding or banding at a bench. Two onlookers pose for the picture.
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A rib was often used to shape the inside of the cup but it is unclear if the man in the picture is using one. One of the Hudson family’s descendants, Grenville Barlow, told me about a piece of letterheaded paper he has which read thus:
It's interesting for me to read Helen's account because it was at a time when the potteries were in full flow. It was a time I never really experienced as I came much later Hudson and Middleton is a Staffordshire china maker specialising in fine bone china. They are located in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. The jiggerers are making plates and saucers and the mould-runners are supplying them with moulds. The plates and saucers are being made on a jigger. A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it. The mould shapes the eating surface of the plate as the profile tool shapes the reverse. Picture taken between 1930 and 1939 and shows a typical Staffordshire china thrower and his assistant making cups. It is a two-stage process: firstly the thrower throws rough linings, which can be seen on the bench in front of him. He then puts the lining into a revolving plaster mould and re-throws it to get the cup shape. interesting that felllow Staffordshire china makers Hudson and Barlow are listed as being partners in JH
The History of Staffordshire china
A strikingly graphic H & M design for a Sutherland bone china tea set. The History of Staffordshire china
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