Description:Pottery factory interior depicting a pottery worker known as a placer at his bench. The man is placing biscuit ware in saggars prior to firing. The powdery substance in the trough is either powdered flint or alumina. This material was added to stop the ware sticking together or warping in the saggar.
Taken at Sutherland China, Normacot Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Saggars
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and smoke during bottle oven firing.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.