Mousecroft, Westwood

the route of the Caldon Canal from Etruria to Froghall

Mousecroft and Westwood on the Caldon Canal

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top right corner of this 1898 map the canal enters Westwood and passes under Lichfield Street

the Electric Works is marked in red - just above is the Mousecroft Brick Works

similar view c.2010 as the 1898 map above
The location of the electric works is shown in red
the flint mill in yellow and the mousecroft brick works in purple

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the foundation work on the left is for houses being built between 
the canal and Ridgway Road  (which runs round Hanley Park)

The flats are: Hammond House and Dickson House

to the left are the works of Endeka Ceramics on Lichfield Street 

Harrison & Son's Joiners Square factory - The Stanley Mills

Harrison & Son's Joiners Square factory - The Stanley Mills, 
where much of the colours and glazes used in the Potteries was mixed. 
They eventually became Harrison and Mayer, later Johnson Matthey and currently 
Endeka Ceramics, supplying quality ceramic materials and precious metals for the 
pottery decoration industry. 

Houses built close to where the Hanley Electric Light Works were in the 
background is the YMCA which is situated on the former Mousecroft Brick Works 

Hanley electricity works c.1969
photo was taken from a boat on the Caldon Canal

photo: Ken and Joan Davis

Hanley Borough opened its electricity works, the first in the Potteries, in the specially built Bethesda Road, north of Hanley Park, in 1894. 

Joiners Square - looking towards the Eastwood / Wellington  district of Hanley

from a postcard dated 8th May 1908
part of the message reads "This is a typical view of the 'potteries'"

The Caldon branch canal can be seen in the lower half of the picture running left to right.
In the foreground are piles of bricks - the Mousecroft Brick Works lay just behind the photographer.

the Bridgewater Pottery Works on Lichfield Street 
(photo taken from the canal)

the derelict land in the foreground is the where the Westwood Mills of George Goodwin stood
later the flint mills became a cement batching plant. The plant was demolished and
the area cleared c.2011

Messrs. George Goodwin and Son, Potters' Material Grinders, Westwood Mills, Hanley
picture 1893

Goodwins Westwood mill was established in 1848, the mills closed in 1966 and were replaced by a cement batching plant which closed c.2009. 

the cement batching plant alongside the Caldon Canal - in May 2008 
[since demolished]

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