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Eastwood Pottery, Lynncroft, Eastwood, c 1900s

Lynncroft
Eastwood
England

Eastwood Pottery on Lynncroft (originally Lynncroft Road) came into existence in 1880 and was operated by a firm styled as Mellor, Jepson & Mellor. Lynn Croft itself was an area on the north-east side of Eastwood where the clay had been exploited previously by a couple of brickyards, situated to either side of what became Walker Street. The Pottery lay on the east side of Lynncroft and manufactured ink pots and other salt-glazed stoneware such as bottles for ginger beer and soda water. By 1900 there appear to have been four bottle kilns on the site, possibly later increasing to six. However, the works closed in 1908 and by 1915 the Ordnance Survey 25-inch to the mile map shows it as disused with all the kilns demolished. By 1938 houses, mostly served by a cul de sac called The Crescent, occupied the site and no trace remains today of the pottery. This view shows workers - mostly quite youthful - loading or unloading stoneware bottles at one of the kilns.

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