Wedgwood Printing Works, Burslem

In 1891 brothers Warwick and George Savage built a ceramic lithographic print works in Wedgwood Place, Burslem supplying the pottery industry. Their printing and bookselling business became one of the largest in North Staffordshire. Warwick was president of the North Staffs Master Printers' Association, president of the Midland Alliance of Master Printers and president of the Ceramic Printers Association. Unfortunately with the general slump in the pottery industry after the Second World War, the Company ceased trading and the building has been derelict for over forty years. Of interest is the posters advertising the works of Arnold Bennett, the famous writer who put the Potteries on the map in the first half of the C20th. His plays were often put on in Queen's Theatre, adjacent to the printing works. One of Arnold Bennett's best loved books was titled 'Anna of the Five Towns', omitting Fenton from the six towns which make up the City of Stoke-on-Trent. He explained he didn't like the sound of the phrase 'six towns' and he didn't think Fenton was significant enough to include! Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film

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