Women Workers at Gladstone.

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Date:1950 - 1959 (c.)

Description:Pottery factory exterior with a group of female workers posing for a photograph.

Taken at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the worker's names are, left to right, Nellie Melpass, Kathleen Summer, Evelyn Locker and Dorothy Brian.

The factory ceased production in the early 1970s but after restoration re-opened as Gladstone Pottery Museum.

Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.

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

Related themes:

Working Wear Pottery Factories People Manufacturing Factory Interiors Factory Exteriors Costume & Textiles Ceramics Business, Trade & Industry

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Image courtesy of: Mrs Nellie Malpass

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Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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