The Middleport Pottery of Burgess and Leigh (opened 1888)  

Flatware manufacturing

Location 13 on the plan

Next: the factory yard
Previous: the cup shop

 

Leaving the cup shop we move to the flat shop where plates etc are made on a semi-automatic jigger. 

 

 

A jigger for the production of flatware 

The jigger manufactured by

Service Engineers Ltd
Burslem, Staffs
England 

The pottery has to be dried before firing
- otherwise if the moisture is driven off too quickly in the kiln the ware will crack.

Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Patent Dryer

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