Fireclay Workers.

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Description:Group portrait of pottery workers known as fireclay workers.

Fireclay is the material used to make heavy sanitaryware items like fireclay baths, sinks (the Belfast sort), items for hospitals and mortuaries etc.

Taken at Stoke-on-Trent.

Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.

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

Related themes:

Working Wear People Costume & Textiles Business, Trade & Industry

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Image courtesy of: Mrs Sheila Hallam

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Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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