Etruscan Bone Mill, Stoke on Trent

Photograph taken 15 August 2000 © Mr Brian Peach LRPS. Source Historic England Archive ref: 384358

This complete range of buildings includes a calcining kiln, bone crushing workshops and an engine house. These all made products that were needed to make pottery. They were built in 1857. All of the working equipment within them survives. It has been restored as a working museum.

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Stoke on Trent Stoke on Trent

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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Here a glass vessel is being formed in a mould. This method of glass manufacture has a history going back about 5,000 years. Glass production is often centred around areas rich fuels such as coal.

Etruscan Bone Mill, Stoke on Trent

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