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Catalogue description The Potteries Museum Collection.
This record is held by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Stoke-on-Trent City Archives
| Reference: | SD4842 |
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| Title: | The Potteries Museum Collection. |
| Description: |
With the notable exception of the Wedgwood papers deposited at Keele University Library, the pottery industry is very under-represented among the archives held by public repositories in Staffordshire. Although anything but complete archives of the companies concerned, the presence of a considerable amount of pottery industry records among the documents deposited by Stoke Museum is therefore welcome indeed. By far the largest group is a reasonable cross-section of the later records of S. Fielding and Co. who manufactured Crown Devon Pottery. From the business point of view ledgers, cash books and wage and salary records form the basis of the collection but pottery students will probably be most attracted by the pattern books and by a random assortment of pottery design material. Most of the records date from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Pattern books - from the 1930s onwards - are also the most notable records among the papers of the other companies represented. The New Chelsea Pottery has the most complete set but there are others for Shorter and Son (absorbed into S. Fielding and Co.) and Jackson and Gosling of Longton. In addition there are a short series of early 20th century letter books for the Globe Pottery at Tunstall. The family papers deposited can be divided into three main groups: Heathcote of Longton Hall, Broade of Fenton Vivian and Wedgwood/Wood of Burslem and Bignall End. The Heathcote papers were regrettably split between Stoke Museum, Hanley Reference Library and the William Salt Library many years ago on a basis that defies description: in this section are many of the principal 18th and 19th century deeds of the Longton Hall estate in the Lane and Heathcote eras and some material on the development of coal mining on the estate. The Broade papers consist of deeds for the Little Fenton Hall estate from the 16th century onwards again with a substantial amount of material on coal mining. The Wedgwood/Wood archives are extremely complicated and devising a satisfactory arrangement for cataloguing them has not been easy. The papers result from the bringing together of three estates - the 13th century Big House and Red Lion, Burslem, estate of John and Thomas Wedgwood, the Brownhills estate of John Wood and the Bignall End estate of John Wedgwood the younger - as a result of the marriage of John Wood to the heiress of the two Wedgwood estates in 1807. After the death without issue of all Wedgwoods concerned, the combined estate became the concern of an increasing number of members of the Wood family who had no difficulty in producing male issue, with no less than eleven members of the family concerned by the early twentieth century. Best documented is the Bignall End estate in Audley with title deeds from the 16th century onwards, estate papers from the 18th to the early 20th centuries and a large quantity of coal mining and iron manufacturing papers including many of the records of a partnership between John Wedgwood the younger and John Gallimore which developed the collieries at Bignall End, Bycars and Hamil (Burslem). Finally, there is a very random assortment of miscellaneous small collections with groups of deeds for Stallington, Clayton, Seabridge and Aston (probably Swynnerton family), Newcastle (Ward family), the Hough Hall estate (Cheshire) and the "Potteries Loop" railway line. |
| Date: | 16th-20th Century |
| Arrangement: |
BUSINESS RECORDS SD4842/1 S. Fielding and Co (Crown Devon Pottery) SD4842/2 Shorter and Sons SD4842/3 Globe Pottery, Tunstall SD4842/4 ? E. Wood SD4842/5 Unidentified pottery SD4842/6 Taylor and Kent SD4842/7 New Chelsea Pottery SD4842/8 Stanley China Works SD4842/9 Jackson and Gosling SD4842/10 A.G. Richardson, Britannia Pottery OTHER PAPERS SD4842/11 Heathcote of Longton Hall SD4842/12 Broad of Little Fenton (Fenton Vivian) SD4842/13 Wood of Brownhills SD4842/14 Wedgwood of Big House, Burslem SD4842/15 Wedgwood of Bignall End SD4842/16 Wood family papers [post 1840 after the amalgamation of the Wood and Wedgwood estates] SD4842/17 Swinnerton family papers SD4842/18 Stallington Grange papers SD4842/19 Ward of Newcastle SD4842/20 Hough Hall estate, Cheshire SD4842/21 Hill Top Pottery, Burslem [deeds] SD4842/22 "Potteries loop" deeds SD4842/23 Newcastle Manor Court - various deeds SD4842/24 Alcock papers SD4842/25 Newcastle deeds SD4842/26 Holly Wall, Tunstall, deeds SD4842/27 W.J.B. Blake accession SD4842/28 Leveson charity papers SD4842/29 Accession 4c/1872 SD4842/30 Accession 94/1960 SD4842/31 Accession 67/1963 [Manor of Stone] SD4842/32 Accession 67/1963 SD4842/33 Accession 103/1964 SD4842/34 Worthington accession 1966 SD4842/35 Accession 46/1972 SD4842/36 Accession 33f/1973 SD4842/37 Accession 33h/1973 SD4842/38 Accession 44i/1973 SD4842/39 Accession 116/1973 SD4842/40 Wedgwood case papers SD4842/41 Miscellaneous early documents SD4842/42 Miscellaneous unattributable documents N.B.: Where there was a Museum reference for a document, this is given in paretntheses after the Record Office reference. |
| Held by: | Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Stoke-on-Trent City Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 42 sub-sub fonds |
| Custodial history: |
Formerly held at Staffordshire record office transferred to Stoke on Trent city archives March 1999 |
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