The Middleport Pottery of
Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)
Gosling and Gatensbury slip pump
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On the back yard of the Burgess factory there is an 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 such as William Boultons, Gosling & Gatensbury, Service, 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.
The name plate reads:
Gosling & Gatensbury Ltd, Engineers, Hanley-Staffs
more obsolete pottery
equipment
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