Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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7i
THE POTTERY WORKERS.
THE pottery workers of Great Britain at
present number 70,000, of whom
about 25,000 are women and children.
When to these figures are added the much
larger number of those engaged in other
branches of ceramics, including red bricks
and tiles, white-glazed bricks, fire-bricks,
and all classes of sanitary goods, the extent
of the industry will be more fully realised.
father to son and from mother to daughter.
For, it may be noted, in pottery work deft-
ness of hand and lightness of touch afford
admirable opportunity for the employment of
women and children. In many processes
these are occupied to the entire exclusion of
men, and with the most satisfactory results.
In order to afford some idea of the general
characteristics and condition of the potter’s
A BUSY SCENE IX THE GLOST KILN YARDS, BRITANNIA POTTERY, GLASGOW.
Two-thirds of the domestic ware produced in
this country is sent out from the small group of
towns adjoining Hanleyand Stoke, and usually
classed as the “ Staffordshire Potteries.” In
this district has been centred for many years
the best experience and the most able crafts-
men of the trade; so that, through the
traditions of several generations, the manu-
facture has arrived at its present high
condition of excellence. As in the case of
some textile industries, the best traditions
of the craft have been handed down from
craft, we cannot do better than venture upon
a short visit to one or two typical factories.
On entering at the wide iron gates, we are
confronted by the timekeeper’s office, at which
every worker registers his entrance. Small
workshops and lofty machine-rooms seem
to fill up the enclosure in apparently irregular
confusion. Here and there an assistant is
crossing from one shop to another with some
piece of ware to be matched. We find that
on the ground floor, where we now stand, we
are brought into contact with three distinct