The Middleport Pottery of Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)  

The hollowware shop

 

Location 15 on the index diagram

From the yard we enter the ground floor hollowware shop.

Flatware is produced on a jigger machine and hollowware (cups, bowls etc.) is produced on a semi-automatic machine called a jolly.

 

The jolly - used to produce hollowware

Interchangeable blades - 
used to produce different shaped ware

Previous is the yard behind the factory frontage
Next is the firing kiln

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