Stoke-on-Trent - Potworks of the week


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Longport Pottery on Davenport Street, Trubshaw Cross c.1890
Longport Pottery on Davenport Street, Trubshaw Cross c.1890
photo: Warrillow collection


The view above shows the frontage of Longport Pottery on Davenport Street from Trubshaw Cross. On the left was Longport House, the home of John Davenport before he moved to Newport House and then Westwood Hall near Leek.

Just beyond the house was the three-story factory entrance shown in more detail in the photograph here. Here next to the main entrance was the factory office which was directly accessible from Longport House (see 1851 map of Longport Pottery).

Most of these buildings, with the exception of some at the northern end of the works, used by Arthur Wood, have since been demolished.


Arthur Wood's Teapots occupied the remains of the Longport Pottery works
Arthur Wood's Teapots occupied the remains of the Longport Pottery works



Just beyond the house was the three-story factory entrance shown above
 


Frontage of old offices at Trubshaw Cross which are similar
in style as the Longport Pottery offices which were just across the road

 


1851 Ordnance Survey Map showing the Longport Pottery
1851 Ordnance Survey Map showing the Longport Pottery