Herculaneum Pottery, Toxteth
Liverpool's forgotten Glory [with apologies to to Peter Hyland].
Herculaneum Pottery was built on the south shore, Toxteth in 1796. It survived for only 44 years. One of the reasons cited for it's early demise was the rapid development of the Staffordshire Potteries. Even today, 'Herculaneum pottery' is much sought-after by collectors, as examples of early earthenware, creamware and china from Liverpool's industrial past.
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Image 1 ^ Herculaneum Pottery by George Codling, engraving as displayed on share certificates. c.1806. NML image.
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Image 2 ^ Pottery location. The Potteries closed 5 years after the John Bennison map was drawn, in 1840.
D.
Lancashire Illustrated Painting
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Originally Posted by
Waterways
The shipyard looks like in front of Brunswick Dock, where boats are repaired to this day. The ships mast to the right look like Toxteth Dock with Harrington Dock would be where the Pottery is.
I've managed to do a bit of research on the painting since posting. It was originally featured in the "Lancashire Illustrated", by S. Austin & William Henry Pyne. The painting is called "Liverpool from the Mersey No.IV" There's a Google Books version of the Lancashire Illustrated, here. And there's a description of the scene featured on the painting on page 36.
Brief extract here:
'The ship-building yards which are exhibited in this plate, are situated between the river and the Salthouse Dock...'
'The large warehouse, which occupies the centre of the plate, belongs to the estate of the late Duke of Bridgewater, who caused this building to be errected...'
"The view is terminated by the Herculaneum Pottery, which competes with the great manufacturies of Staffordshire..."
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Source: Lancashire Illustrated, Series of Views: from original drawings By S. Austin & William Henry Pyne
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!843 Strangers Guide to Liverpool.
These were the South Docks in 1843.
I gave the previous dates in good faith.
They're from the Annals and are correct, and presumably refer to when the Harrington and Herculaneum Docks were taken over by the Corporation.
Prior to which they were private and rather small.
I've sent contemporary maps to Dazza for him to wave his magic wand on.
Herculaneum Pottery - Site Location
Notice the smaller Harrington & Herculaneum Docks on the 1845 map.
When they decided to build Toxteth Dock - it appears that Harrington & Herculaneum Docks where moved further south to accommodate it and were substantially increased in size.
All images sourced: LRO
Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery
The Illustrated Guide to Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery, the title of Alan Smith's book, now out of print, offers us an early glimpse of the pottery site, both before the potteries were established, in image 1, and after the site was purchased and developed, in image 2.
Both images 1 & 2 have been scanned from the above publication, and the text abstracted below.
Image 1 [below] is a reconstruction of the site, when it was owned by the Copper Works of Charles Roe & Co. Around 1790.http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/a...7/HercSite.jpg
^ Image 1.
Index
A. Buildings for the smelting of ores.
B. Warehouse and Counting house.
C. Yard for storing the ore.
D. The Dock.
E. Refining Furnaces.
F. The Yard.
G. Part of the Shore filled level with ciders.
H. Pool, artificially enlarged.
M. Copper Workers' Dwellings.
P. Pool.
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Image 2 [below] is a Plan of the Herculaneum Pottery, around 1800.
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^ Image 2.
Index.
A. Wellington Road.
B. Kilns.
C. The Mill.
D. The Dock.
E. Factory Gates and Front Office.
F. The Chapel.
G. Raised and Extended Shoreline.
H. Reservoirs.
I. Great Sea Hey.
M. Potter's Dwellings.
N. Factory Yard.
O. Printing and Enamelling Shops.
P. Throwing, Moulding and Glazing Rooms.
Q. Packing Pattern-Room and Back Office.
R. Crate Shop, Blacksmith's Shop and Stables.
S. Tidal Reservoir for Scouring the Dock.
The 'shaded area' is the extent of original damage to the map.
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Image 3 [below] is an attempt to fix the original Herculaneum Pottery site over today's developed land.
The above image was the starting pointing. This was then laid over two OS maps from 1848 & 1906 to fix any remainding boundaries from the original site. ie: The original Dock, and extent of the pottery site was still shown. Finally, I've added the Google Earth view over the top for some context.
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^ Image 3.
Image 4 [below] is an enlargement of the above.
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^ Image 4.
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^ Image 5. Early Herdman view, sketched from where the round-about is shown on the google earth view.
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^ Image 6. Another early sketch, dating from about 1825 of the same area.
With thanks to Quentin Sharples, who's help I was grateful for, in putting this compilation together.
Daz.