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  @user-ue9dj5ge1c3 күн бұрын

  Was a earthenware dipper at Spode .. 1976-1992 .. best years of my Life. Will never forget and will always be grateful.

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 күн бұрын

  Thanks. I hope this brought back memories. Where was your workbench on the site?

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  @user-ue9dj5ge1c2 күн бұрын

  All I remember is the dipping house near where we used to produce the Chivas Whiskey bottles.. dipped Blue Italian, Pink Camilla, Christmas Tree and others.

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  @gentlemenscholarsclub5 күн бұрын

  David, clarifying that this is two Graces crowning Venus is much appreciated. It's maddening to see it presented as "The Three Graces Dancing," though Bevington also labeled it that way!

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 күн бұрын

  Thanks for the positive feedback. Research must be easier with the internet compared to Victorian times!

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  @PotteriesAuthor6 күн бұрын

  I had to repost the video after an attempt to post to Facebook when I realised that a date in a subtitle was incorrect. Facebook does not let me post again in these circumstance, which means sadly that not many will see this. :(

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  @PotteriesAuthor9 күн бұрын

  Is this the first time you have come across Etruria in the UK? Let us know if you think the Ceramic Heritage Dictionary is a good idea?

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  @leeedwards999411 күн бұрын

  if its sold to developers the chimney could be a stand alone part of the new layout ... ie the houses - flats built around it and the land sold as this being part of the agreement ..... unless you have plans to restore the factory for active production or as a museum ? .......

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 күн бұрын

  Yes, you are right. But this might be many years off. So I hope the chimney is secure until a development takes place.

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  @nintendy11 күн бұрын

  Such an attarctive man.

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  @nintendy11 күн бұрын

  Such an attractive man!

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  @PotteriesAuthor12 күн бұрын

  Was this useful? It is short but it is a start. What do you think?

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  @PotteriesAuthor16 күн бұрын

  Did you know about Creamware? Was this short clip useful? Let us know.

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  @PotteriesAuthor18 күн бұрын

  This is the first letter in a British Ceramic Dictionary. Pottery Terms are many, and not well understood so please let us know if this is a useful exercise. Please leave some feedback.

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  @PotteriesAuthor19 күн бұрын

  The choice of 26 terms has to be subjective but it is start! Did you find this useful? Let us know!

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  @sallypanerio156619 күн бұрын

  Some keys are playing itself 😲

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  @PotteriesAuthor20 күн бұрын

  What do you think of Stoke's new "World Craft City" status? Is this deserved?

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  @user-mu1eu4sy1g23 күн бұрын

  NO IS BELL

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  @PotteriesAuthor27 күн бұрын

  The Spode Works chimney has to be a Stoke Pottery heritage landmark, highly visible with over 200 years of history. But it is not a listed building, and it has not been maintained. I visited the Spode Engine and Boiler House. It is in a bad way! Should this important building supporting the chimney be saved? What do you think?

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  @andyroden8537Ай бұрын

  Brilliant, so ornate.👍🏻

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  @robertfountain4856Ай бұрын

  An interesting video for me as I'm interested in the very origins of the site. The China Terrace you reveal as being built in 1830 but I'm looking for the original part dating back before 1762 which was described in a book as still standing but the book does date back into the 1800's. I have also read of paperwork where this original site of the John Turner & R Bankes pottery was sold to Josiah. If anything still survives it would be the oldest part of the Spode Works. I look at the collapsed kiln and wonder just how old it was. Could it be the original kiln that would date back to 1750?

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  @PotteriesAuthorАй бұрын

  Hi Robert Good luck with your research. I have a number of other videos to publish from my day at Spode so look out for these. My general impression is that the configuration of buildings on the site changed regularly. Adding an extra floor or taking off an upper floor or demolishing a building happened frequently. The cellars beneath the terrace, to which I did not have access, may have been the cellars for an earlier building. What is left of the kiln tells me that it was a later construction, as potters had to deal with new smoke pollution legislation. But you would expect the later kilns to be built on the site of earlier kilns so I would not like to guess which were earlier than others.

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  @robertfountain4856Ай бұрын

  @@PotteriesAuthor It's been over 20 years since I came across the information on John Turners original factory at Stoke. I have been unable to establish if it was owned outright by John Turner or in partnership with Richard Banks/Bankes/Bancks. Other information revealed his partners first name was actually William. Since research has failed to find a potter named Richard or William Banks I can only believe that he was some kind of a salesman and not a potter as many authors claim. No work of that time was marked but I believe that white salt glaze stoneware was produced in the style of his previous master Daniel Bird. Both of the earliest pieces identified were one off comission pieces and they continued to be made at the Lane End factory. This I believe earned John Turner sufficient money to build his Lane End factory just 10 years later which evolved into a medium sized pottery. It is known that Josiah Spode worked for Turner in the factory shortly before John Turner left for Lane End. Josiah became head potter for Banks. My research turned up a legal document regarding the sale of the Stoke works around 1760/1763 by memory so I can't be sure. According to Bevis Hillier in his book on the Turners, in 1775 Banks sold the factory to Jeremiah Smith of Great Fenton. His son John Smith married John Turner's youngest daughter Elizabeth. Jeremiah Smith sold the Stoke factory to Josiah Spode 29 February 1776. There are two photographs of the old works in Aurhur Hayden's 'Spode and his Successors' (1925). By then they were demolished but were still standing in 1879 when Henry Wedgwood wrote "The site of the (Turner)manufactory is now coveredby the large works of Messrs Copeland. However, the little place has only been incorporated, and may still be seen as complete, with it's square & workshops, as when it stood once in the open, and is now devoted to the printing department.

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  @BA-ef4prАй бұрын

  I love the video and appreciate your making it.

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  @PotteriesAuthorАй бұрын

  Should this 1830's industrial building be saved as it is or redeveloped or knocked down completely? Like if you think it should be saved? Thumbs down if it should be demolished.

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  @charlieseakins7915Ай бұрын

  Thanks for posting this David. Where did all the Spode museum collections go please?

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  @PotteriesAuthorАй бұрын

  @@charlieseakins7915 Hi Charlie The collections are all in the hands of the Spode Museums Trust. They are not yet all on display again but they have been very busy in recent months reconfiguring various rooms in the Visitor Centre so I would expect something resembling a new museum to come out of this work.

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  @charlieseakins7915Ай бұрын

  @@PotteriesAuthor Thank you David

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  @charlieseakins7915Ай бұрын

  We bisque fired the mugs and the actors applied the handles with a tiny bit of white tac to make them stick ha

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  @charlieseakins7915Ай бұрын

  We were making table ware including very large platters and bowls all jiggered. Now the market is changing again here in nz and we mainly make mugs with jiggered bodies and slip cast handles. We recently made eighty mugs with separate handles for a play about the ladies who applied the handles at Crown Lynn that was once the largest pottery in the Southern hemisphere. Our moulds are almost worn out now. The play is called "The Handlers "

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  @charlieseakins7915Ай бұрын

  Very interesting. Not many sites like this left. Reminds me of the mould maker here in new Zealand I used to use. Sadly all gone now and the mould makers have retired. Thanks for posting

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  @PotteriesAuthorАй бұрын

  Thanks for sharing your experience. What sort of pottery were you making?

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  @sighkid2 ай бұрын

  I have the same figure although mine is sadly missing the basket from the top. I still hope to find a replacement one day, although I realise the odds are not exactly in my favour. I think it's a beautiful work though, I much prefer this imagining of the Three Graces to the rather tacky Canova interpretation (there, I said it!)

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  @PotteriesAuthorАй бұрын

  There was a model made that did not include the basket. So your Three Graces may be perfect, as intended. I am not sure about the benefit of the added basket, myself.

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  @sighkidАй бұрын

  @@PotteriesAuthor pretty sure mine had the basket originally as all three heads have a small, irregular mound of porcelain on top which I assume is to do with how the basket was attached during firing. But I agree it does display well without because the focus then becomes more on the figures themselves :)

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  Have you visited World of Wedgwood in Barlaston? What do you think of the place?

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  Are you a fan of the Three Graces? What do you think of a version that looks like marble produced for the growing Victorian audience?

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  The search is on! At least 3 million pound Minton peacocks are unaccounted for! Do let us know when and where you might have seen something like this?

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  @shauryagupta9802 ай бұрын

  Good content!

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @tgkb12352 ай бұрын

  The second vase is described as transfer printed. Certainly there is some printing involved but the majority of the decoration is painted including all the colours and the gold.

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  Yes, you are right. I should have made this more clear. I appreciate your feedback.

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  @greensage3952 ай бұрын

  hell of a thing to find sitting in the attic! :)

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  Imagine! Like winning the lottery!

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  @greensage3952 ай бұрын

  @@PotteriesAuthor Oddly, after viewing this video, I was looking upon a Welsh Castle for Sale, and in one clip they showed a Great Peacock...It was so fast I could not tell if it was the same! kzread.info/dash/bejne/eJuFxpN-Yqmefbw.html at about 1:30 minute marker. It almost looks Ceramic!

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  I agree! It is almost ceramic!

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  @romanvaldes12232 ай бұрын

  Beautiful

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  @PotteriesAuthor2 ай бұрын

  Thank you

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  @romanvaldes12232 ай бұрын

  Beautiful

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  @romanvaldes12232 ай бұрын

  Beautiful!

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  @romanvaldes12232 ай бұрын

  Beautiful work of art !

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  @PotteriesAuthor3 ай бұрын

  Have you taken up the challenge? Can you climb the 528 steps in under 10 minutes? How long did you take?

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  @PotteriesAuthor3 ай бұрын

  Feedback is welcome on the Bacchus Vase. Do you like this vase or was it just a sensation for a vey short period of time?

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  @PotteriesAuthor3 ай бұрын

  In which local swimming baths did you learn to swim?

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  @PotteriesAuthor4 ай бұрын

  Are you a Collector? What are your thoughts on the fellowship and friendships gained from meeting other collectors?

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  @PotteriesAuthor4 ай бұрын

  Did the Victorians get this right? Coffee is your favourite?

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  @PotteriesAuthor4 ай бұрын

  What do you think if Stoke-on-Trent Ceramics in the V&A Museum? Let us know.

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  @joannehyland51074 ай бұрын

  Just visited..the staircases are even more impressive in 'real life' .Simply stunning.

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  @PotteriesAuthor4 ай бұрын

  Yes, I found it quite difficult to capture all the views on film. It is an all round experience!

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  @joannehyland51074 ай бұрын

  @@PotteriesAuthor it is all round and y' don't want to block the stairs by gawping endlessly ! 🧐 It looks like Michael Angelo has painted the ceiling 😳

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  @PotteriesAuthor4 ай бұрын

  Do you collect Japanese Porcelain? Let us know what you think.

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  @brettster33315 ай бұрын

  Hi David, Thank you for showing us this love!y building, I hope it has a Grade 1 listing for preservation. Hugs from America.

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 ай бұрын

  Are you a fan of Minton & Co and thier majolica pottery? Let us know what you think of this wall fountain?

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 ай бұрын

  This is a short extract of a longer video that you can see at kzread.info/dash/bejne/o3x7s5WFnLOxe6w.html

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  @brettster33315 ай бұрын

  Hi David, this is a very interesting video, it is so nice to see the early 1800's map and your labeling of what has been changed as time went by in the Spode factory life until 2008 when it closed. I do wish that Spode had saved at least one of their beehive kilns for history's sake, it looks like they removed them in the 1950's though. Spode produced so many fine products in their history and it is good to see the factory buildings being repurposed. I wish you great success on your channel David.

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 ай бұрын

  Do you like learning about British Potters? This chuch is spoilt with the graves of both Josiah Wedgwood and various generations of Josiah Spode. What do you think? All feedback is welcome.

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  @AndaVZevedei5 ай бұрын

  Very nice to see the Spode family having its beautiful and rightful place in there... As a former collector of antique Wedgwood and Spode pieces, I find the information within this video rather interesting. Thank you.

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 ай бұрын

  Thank you for your kind words and for sharing your connection to the Wedgwood and Spode pieces!

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 ай бұрын

  Josiah Wedgwood or Freddie Mercury? 2 statues celebrate thier lives in 2 different centuries.

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 ай бұрын

  See the massive car park with the unusual cladding at the end of the street? There is now a video on this at kzread.info/dash/bejne/do6GqcGkgqq9YKg.html

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  @PotteriesAuthor5 ай бұрын

  Is the future of Hanley and Stoke-on-Trent or money poorly spent? Let us know your thoughts?