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Calcining works, Milvale Street, Middleport
in 1907 - Goodwin's Mill Co. Middleport Mill, ground flint, stone, whiting, and potters' materials.

 

 

square calcining kiln in Milvale Street, Middleport, Burslem
square calcining kiln in Milvale Street, Middleport, Burslem 
- alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal -
Bridge Street was renamed Milvale Street in the mid 1950's

 

the calcining kiln from the Trent & Mersey Canal
the calcining kiln from the Trent & Mersey Canal
- to the left is the old flour mill - 

 

Former calcining works

Largely early 19th Century, but with later additions reflecting longer period of use. Brick with tiled roofs. Buildings arranged around a yard, with kiln in centre, square in section, with two flues separated only at the apex. Long range to the right formerly single storeyed raised in the early 20th Century to incorporate a narrow tower.

Various other single storey workshops around the perimeter of the site, and a small gabled building adjoining to the left, possibly formerly an engine house, with tall stack at the side of the gable.

 

Pidduck Street
Pidduck Street

 

Fitton & Pidduck, Limited, millers & flour merchants, Hungarian Roller Flour Mills
Fitton & Pidduck, Limited, millers & flour merchants, Hungarian Roller Flour Mills

photos: 2010

 

Milvale Street
Milvale Street

photo: Ian Pearsall

 

 

Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport - Google maps 2010
Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport - Google maps 2010

 

1851 map of the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport
1851 map of the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport 
at the bottom right the Port Vale Mills are to the left of bridge and the mills to the right  

 

1898 map showing the development of the area
1898 map showing the development of the area 

Bridge Street was renamed Milvale Street in the mid 1950's

 

 from..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, 
Newcastle & District'



Bridge Street 

(76, Navigation Street)

Goodwin's Mill Co., ground flint, stone, whiting, and potters' materials, Middle-port Mill 

Fitton & Pidduck, Limited, millers & flour merchants, Hungarian Roller Flour Mills 

Marraway, Elijah, miner, Mill Cottage

 

2 Smith, Thos., manager of flint mill 

4 Garner, Harry, mouldmaker 

6 Tinsley, Roger, labourer 

8 Sproston, James, ovenman 

10 Collins, John, potter 

12 Millington, —., dock labourer 

14 Shaw, Albert Hy., potter 

16 Clowes, William, potter 

18 Bennett, Edgar, labourer 

20 Davies, Lilian, widow 

22 Cartwright, Sarah Ann, widow 

24 Malpass, —., warehouse woman 

26 Cooper, John, potter 

28 Nixon, John Thos., miller 

30 Nixon, Wm., cratemaker 

32 Green, James, carter 

34 Moran. Martin, house painter 

36 Hobson, Geo., earthenware manufacturer

—here is Wharf Street—

 

 

 


contents: 2011 photos

 

 

Related pages 


Longport: John Davenport & Longport.
The creation of Longport (by the Trent & Mersey canal) between 1760-mid 19thC.

Middleport: Burgess & Leigh - the 'Model' Victorian Potworks.
A tour of a working Victorian potworks - opened in 1888, famous world over for Burleigh ware. A listed building and rescued from the receiver in 1999.

Trubshaw Cross in detail
Trubshaw Cross is the upper part of Longport, situated on the junction of Newcastle Street and Davenport Road - it was an important point on the packhorse lanes from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Burslem and Tunstall.

 


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