The Middleport Pottery of
Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)
Frontage of Burgess, Dorling and Leigh
Before embarking on the walk have you read the introduction?
The partners Burgess & Leigh had started business in the 1850's in Tunstall, moved to the Central Pottery [
on Central Pottery], Burslem in 1862 to the Hill Pottery in 1867 [
The impressive frontage on Port
Street, Middleport, Burslem.
Two story front range, built
of plan red brick with a tiled roof.
It has five evenly spaced gabled bays, four of them with lunette windows
and the fifth forming the arched coach entrance at the northern end
of the works.
The works was built on the site of an old saggar manufactory by the Trent and Mersey Canal, in an undeveloped area, which soon after the erection of the new factory gained a wharf and boat yard, and quickly became surrounded by terraced housing.
Burleigh Ware - famous world over
Starts life in this Stoke-on-Trent factory.
next is the View of the factory from the canal side
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