An entirely revised and re-illustrated edition of this classic Shire title, a history of the pottery industry in and around Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.
No industrial skyline was ever more memorable than the forest of bottle ovens that used to dominate the skyline of Stoke-on-Trent. Although generations of collectors have studied the products of these companies, the story of the industry behind them has rarely been told.
Revised and re-illustrated for a new generation of ceramics and local history lovers, this is a pocket guide to the industrial area in the English Midlands that was home to hundreds of pottery-making companies, and until recently supplied most of the country's crockery and decorative ceramics.
This is the perfect introduction to the industrial history of The Potteries, its major firms and the men and women who produced pottery for Britain and the world.