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Dist:0.1km<br/>Calciners and millers for the pottery industry. The two kilns are for calcination rather than the firing of pots and I believe they were in use when the picture was taken and are only relatively recently out of use. The works is not really a pottery as it supplies material for the potteries.
©Chris Allen
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©Dave Bevis
Dist:0.3km<br/>The oven is at A G Hackney's Fountain Place Works and is photographed from Fountain Place. A modern picture [[272798]] appears not to include the oven I would be grateful for news of its continued survival. In 1988 the Potteries Heritage society published a list of the 46 surviving bottle ovens. I wonder what the number is nearly 20 years later.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.3km<br/>The wonderfully ornate drinking trough in the market square, Burslem.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.3km<br/>Swan Square, Burslem - in the Arnold Bennett novels this area was called 'Duck Square' The Lloyds TSB building (now -2006 - a betting shop) originally Taylors and Lloyds, the founding partners of Lloyds Bank To the left is The Swan - public house.
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.3km<br/>Location: War Memorial, World War I in Swan Square, outside Burslem Methodist Mission Installed: designed 1920-21 and Unveiled 11 November 1921 Commissioned by: erected by public subscription Architect: C G Cowlishaw Stonemason: W.A.R.Mellor Ltd Sculptor: C Wallett There are two steps up to the monument. The figure of a soldier dressed in World War I uniform appears on the front face of the square-sectioned memorial. He stands within a shallow niche, holding his gun end downwards. His head is bare, and his hat lies next to his right foot. The Burslem coat of arms appears on the rear face of the monument, above the inscription. Both the right and left sides of the monument are decorated with a Latin cross and, below that, a wreath festooned with drapes. The memorial was unveiled by the Earl of Dartmouth, 11 November 1921
©Steven Birks
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©Dave Bevis
Dist:0.3km<br/>Otherwise known as Swan Bank Methodist Church, the Mission was built in 1901 and demolished in the 1960s. See a 1920s photograph: http://www.thepotteries.org/photos/burslem_centre/methodist_swan.htm
©Gerald England
Dist:0.4km<br/>Listed building, circa 1905, by A. R. Wood, brick and terracotta with tiled roof, 2 story. Queen Street where the school is was named after the pottery ware Wedgwood made for Queen Charlotte in 1765. Directly opposite is the Wedgwood Memorial Institute: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/329807
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.4km<br/>Location: Chapel Lane, Burslem - outside the Health Centre Installed: 1998 Commissioned by: North Staffordshire NHS Trust Architect: Philip Wooton Blacksmith: Edmund Sveikutis There are four separate panels in the gates, each of which show figures outlined in steel and filled in with wire mesh coloured in red, blue, yellow, green, orange, brown and white. The hands decorating the plate and shaping the pot commemorate the ceramics industry and its significance in the industrial development of the area. Other motifs - the mother holding her baby, the crawling infants, and the obviously healthy children playing children - allude to community health services, past and present, available within the health centre.
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.4km<br/>Location: The whole façade of the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, (currently a library), Queen Street , Burslem Designed: 1863-69 - Foundation stone laid 26 October 1863; building opened 21 April 1869; School of Art and Science opened in October 1869; Free Library opened 1870; façade finished by November 1871 Commissioned by: public subscription Architects: George Benjamin Nichols, Robert Edgar and John Lockwood Kipling
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taken from Brickhouse Street looking towards Market Place, Burslem, Stoke on Trent showing what is locally known as Cocks Entry after J. Cock the greengrocer business adjacent now long gone. In the background can be seen the old Burslem Town Hall with its angel surmount.
©Phil Eptlett
Dist:0.4km<br/>These are the buildings on the south-west side Of Westport Street, close to Burslem town centre.
©Dave Bevis
Dist:0.4km<br/>Burslem old fire station, Westport Road, Burslem, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire
©Kevin Hale

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