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The Potteries Yesteryear        by Robert Lewis Booth
        

The following montage illustrates the

major industries in Stoke-on-Trent
of Yester-year.
A pit mound, pit head and winding house


Steam train                                      


Bottle neck oven kilns



Steel worker


Potter



Canal



Coal miner 


                                                          Yesteryear     

                                                                       shown framed  

Date 2004

Oil on canvas panel     

Size 24” x 9”   610 x 228


 


Stoke-on-Trent is a unique city in England. Made up of six distinct towns:-

Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, and Longton, collectively known as                      “The Potteries”. 


Up to 80,000 workers were employed in the pottery industries.
The city also employed thousands of mine workers
The steel works (Shelton bar iron & steel) employed approximately 3000 workers


Picture

Friday night was chipshop night in the Potteries
by Robert Lewis Booth

Picture

                                Cheers!!
Typical Potteries pub scene of yesteryear, chatting, relaxing with a pint, and sharing a little “Praise and Grumble”. 
Oil on canvas board size: 14” x 10”.    356 x 254mm
by Robert Lewis Booth
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Picture
Picture

 Arthur Berry artist, playwright, poet and teacher.
                       ("A Three and Sevenpence Halfpenny Man" )
   Oil on canvas board size: 14” x 10”.    356 x 254mm           by  Robert Lewis Booth

Picture
                           Saggar Maker with his apprentice Bottom Knocker

                             Longton Park

Picture
                                    Dining Al Fresco  with your best friend
                Acrylic on canvas board size: 14” x 10”.  356 x 254mm  by  Robert Lewis Booth



Picture
                                Pearl waiting for the Longton bus
                          Oil on canvas cavas board size 14" x 10"     by Robert Lewis Booth

“Typical photo of the bygone potteries”  

Pollution was a major problem in the Potteries because of the large number of kilns also other factory chimneys and houses using coal fires. It was not surprisingly the area had a very high death rate associated with diseases of the lungs. 

 

Apparently in the 1950’s there were approximately 2000 bottle neck oven kilns dotted around the city spewing out their acrid smoke.  


Picture

 Redundant Bottle neck kiln
by Robert Lewis Booth Acrylic on canvas board 12" x 10" 
Redundant Bottle Kiln Minkstone Works, Normacot Road Longton.
 

Picture
                               Pottery Factory of WT Copeland and Sons                      The firing up of bottle neck oven kilns at pottery works factory WT Copeland-Spode, Stoke-on-Trent.
In 1867 the Josiah Spode company's trade name was changed to WT Copeland & Sons, then in 1970 reverted back to the company’s name of Spode.

  
Oil on canvas board 12” x 16” 305 x 405mm             by Robert Lewis Booth



Picture

              Bottle neck kilns 'Spode Factory Stoke'    water colour 

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Picture

  Water colour Canal/ pottery scene Middleport Stoke-on-trent 1956

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Picture

Smoggy Canal/Pottery   (based on my 1956 water colour)
By Robert Lewis Booth
Oil on canvas board panel, size: 240 x 350mm. Approx :-10" x 14" 

                            “Coal Face”     

Picture

                            Stoke-on-Trent,  Coal Miner

 Oil and acrylic on canvas panel -  Size:- 18” x 14”  457 x 356  -   Date:  2010