Xmas Party at Poole's Factory.

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Date:1950

Description:Pottery factory interior with a group of workers posing for a photograph during their works' Christmas party or 'Fuss'.

Taken at Poole's factory Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

An index card accomanying this photograph provides some additional information about the photograph. It states;

"Mr. Clifford, printer, next to the man with spectacles. He died June 1959. He used to be at Wedgwoods', Etruria, then Phoenix Works. He would sometimes print at Gladstone."

"They all kept their 'one and eleven pinnies' on during the fuss."

Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.

This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.

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Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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