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.
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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