Being done up.
The old Commerce Works (Commerce Street works) on the edge of the town centre of Longton in Stoke-on-Trent.
The two bottle kilns contained within a pottery range (works) date back to the late nineteenth century and are now grade II listed and sit on a site at which pottery was being manufactured some time before the construction of these works. Chetham & Woolley seem to have been operating a business here dating back to 1796 and the factory containing this range was eventually taken over in 1873 by Herbert James Aynsley, son of John Aynsley (famous as part of the Aynsley China family) who aquired the site on his son's behalf in 1869.
The building appears to be undergoing renovation and sits close to the old Tams Crown Pottery works which is about to undergo a major refurbishment.
This old factory and kilns is grade II listed.
Being done up.
The old Commerce Works (Commerce Street works) on the edge of the town centre of Longton in Stoke-on-Trent.
The two bottle kilns contained within a pottery range (works) date back to the late nineteenth century and are now grade II listed and sit on a site at which pottery was being manufactured some time before the construction of these works. Chetham & Woolley seem to have been operating a business here dating back to 1796 and the factory containing this range was eventually taken over in 1873 by Herbert James Aynsley, son of John Aynsley (famous as part of the Aynsley China family) who aquired the site on his son's behalf in 1869.
The building appears to be undergoing renovation and sits close to the old Tams Crown Pottery works which is about to undergo a major refurbishment.
This old factory and kilns is grade II listed.