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Fenton - Keeling & Walker works
On Whieldon Road.
Image: © Dave Bevis
Taken: 3 Oct 2012
0.10 miles
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Baines's Chimney
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 23 Dec 2012
0.10 miles
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Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent: Keeling and Walker factory, Whieldon Road
Seen from a passing train. Keeling and Walker, according to the sign on the side of the factory, deal in Thermox performance materials.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 25 Jul 2013
0.10 miles
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Demolished canalside pottery near Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent
The Trent and Mersey Canal passes by the former Winkle and Company Colonial Pottery, which opened here in 1889. This and all other nearby factories have long been demolished (circa 2000), and the land is scrubland, awaiting redevelopment. http://www.thepotteries.org/photos/wieldon_road/index.htm
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 4 Sep 2009
0.11 miles
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Disused wharf near Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent
South of Whieldon Road Bridge (No 110*) on the Trent and Mersey Canal. This canal frontage is long, with evidence that narrowboat loading could be done at many places. It was the Colonial Pottery of Winkle and Company, and opened here in 1889. Just beyond it to the south was a brick works which has also been demolished.
* Nicholson Guides have this as Bridge No 112.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 30 May 2011
0.11 miles
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Site of Colonial Pottery (1888-1931), Trent Mersey Canal, Fenton
Winkle and Wood started as Pearl Pottery in Hanley 1885 and moved to this site in 1888 as Colonial Pottery. The imposing 4 Storey building was demolished around 2000. Only the lower windows remain. The old building can be seen here http://www.thepotteries.org/potworks_wk/039.htm
http://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/1091b.htm
Image: © Brian Deegan
Taken: 16 Feb 2020
0.11 miles
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Demolished canalside pottery near Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent
The Trent and Mersey Canal passes by the former Winkle and Company Colonial Pottery, which opened here in 1889. This and all other nearby factories have long been demolished (circa 2000), and the land is scrubland, awaiting redevelopment. http://www.thepotteries.org/photos/wieldon_road/index.htm
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 4 Sep 2009
0.11 miles
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Disused wharf near Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent
South of Whieldon Road Bridge (No 110*) on the Trent and Mersey Canal. This canal frontage is long, with evidence that narrowboat loading could be done at many places. It was the Colonial Pottery of Winkle and Company, and opened here in 1889. Just beyond it to the south was a brick works which has also been demolished.
* Nicholson Guides have this as Bridge No 112.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 30 May 2011
0.11 miles
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Trent and Mersey Canal near Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent
South of Whieldon Road Bridge (No 110) on the Trent and Mersey Canal. This canal frontage is long, with evidence that narrowboat loading could be done at many places. It was the Colonial Pottery of Winkle and Company, and opened here in 1889. Just beyond it to the south was a brick works which has also been demolished.
* Nicholson Guides have this as Bridge No 112.
The canal is 93.5 miles in length from Derwent Mouth to Preston Brook. The first sod was cut by Josiah Wedgwood in July 1766 at Middleport (Stoke-on-Trent). It took eleven years to build. James Brindley was the engineer until his death in 1772.
Image: © Roger D Kidd
Taken: 30 May 2011
0.11 miles
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Demolished canalside pottery near Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent
The Trent and Mersey Canal passes by the former Winkle and Company Colonial Pottery, which opened here in 1889. This and all other nearby factories have long been demolished (circa 2000), and the land is scrubland, awaiting redevelopment. http://www.thepotteries.org/photos/wieldon_road/index.htm
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 4 Sep 2009
0.11 miles