The New Market Works, Longton

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Date:1960

Description:Photograph taken from the Bull's Head Inn, looking North-West along St. Martin's Lane. St John's Church is in the distance.

The New Market Works stood between St. Martin's Lane and Chancery lane. There were pottery works on this site by 1815, when it was occupied by Martin & Shaw. By 1863 it was owned by Skelson & Plant and was renamed after the New Market which was built at this time.

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The New Market Works, Longton

Photograph taken from the Bull's Head Inn, looking North-West along St. Martin's Lane. St John's Church ...

The New Market Works, Longton

The Northernmost bottle oven. Photograph taken from outside the works.

The New Market Works, Longton

The Northernmost bottle oven from the quadrangle.

The New Market Works, Longton

The oven inside the quadrangle.

The New Market Works, Longton

Photograph taken looking up St. Martin's Lane, from near Longton Post Office.

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Source: Lovatt Collection, Stoke on Trent City Archives

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