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| Wade Manchester Pottery The End of an Era? By David Chown To Join The International Wade Collectors Club Click Here |
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| In February 2002 I stood in
driving rain as bulldozers began to demolish the
Manchester Pottery, which for a number of years, with the
old A.J Wade's Flaxman Tile Works next door, has been
known as Greenhead Works, and for 97 years previously,
was the centre of the Wade empire. When the Manchester
Pottery was built in 1905/06 it was simply George Wade,
the company changing its name in 1919 to George Wade and
Son when George Wade (later Sir George), fresh back from the
trenches of the 1st World War, joined his father's
company. Later the name was changed again to Wade
Potteries Ltd as the company was merged with the other
Wade companies, ending its days as part of Wade Ceramics
under the Beauford Group. I knew I was watching the end of an era. Soon to be the site for a new housing development, I wondered, as the grimy red brick walls tumbled to the ground and were scooped on to waiting trucks, what Sir George would have thought of it? And what of Jessie Van Hallen's studio where so many of her masterpieces first saw the light of day - all gone forever! A lot of Wade history has disappeared with the sale and distruction of the Manchester Pottery in Burslem but time moves on and so has Wade - and in this case to the bright and modern Royal Works across the road in Greenhead Street where, as I returned to my car, production continues as usual. |
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