Burslem, 1956
Photo ref:
B303002
Photo ref:
B303002
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Bottle kilns were once a familiar sight throughout the Potteries, and there were about 2,000 of them in the late 1930s. Later, they fell victim both to progress and anti-pollution legislation, and were replaced by gas-fired and electric kilns. The last bottle kiln to be used commercially closed down in 1967.
An extract from Staffordshire Photographic Memories.
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I was born in Burslem and lived on Waterloo Road across from Macintyres pottery from 1949 until 1957 when we moved to Lancashire. Macintyres had a clock tower and we would check it in the morning before leaving for school. I began school at St. John's and then went to North Road C P. I remember Wilshaw's grocers and the queue outside the oatcake shop on Sunday mornings. I still dream of the smell of fresh oatcakes, ...see more
My memories start around 1946 and go on 'forever' - but the years I want to mention here are those of my Cobridge schooldays and the Burslem connection to those schooldays.
I lived on the Cobridge side of Burslem, at the top of Elder Rd ... Elder Place opposite the Park, a little row of 'two-up two-down' cottages built in 1852 (demolished circa 1966).
I lived in one ...see more
I lived in Blythe Bridge and travelled to school at the Burslem Junior Technical College in Moorland Road, Burslem over a period between 1943 to 1945. The journey by train on the old loop line was a lot of fun. I remember the screeching noise the coaches made when coming into Hanley station as the line had such a tight curve. We used to play football on a pitch in Hamil Road, this was lost when ...see more
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