The Middleport Pottery of Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)  

 

 

 Gosling and Gatensbury slip pump

 

Location 1 on the index diagram

On the back yard of the Burgess factory we found this old 'dead weight' slip pump which was used to fill the filter presses with the clay slip.

More and more mechanisation was introduced into the factories and there sprang up a number of engineering works in the Stoke-on-Trent area. Some of these engineers designed and patented their own machinery for the pottery works.

 

 

Old slip pump found on the factory yard.
Old slip pump found on the factory yard.

 

Gosling & Gatensbury Ltd, Engineers, Hanley-Staffs
The name plate reads:
Gosling & Gatensbury Ltd, Engineers, Hanley-Staffs

 

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