Working Conditions in the 19th-Century Staffordshire Potteries

Cumming Lecture
Part of the Gardiner Signature Lecture Series
On April 19, 2022, Miranda Goodby, Senior Curator of Ceramics at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK, discussed her research on the working conditions of men, women, and children in the Staffordshire Potteries in the 19th century, and what they were exposed to in order to make the beautiful pottery that survives in museums today.

[@julianjackson6824]

Thanks for a fascinating lecture.

[@mimsicle1]

My husband’s grandmother worked in the Potteries in Longton. She was born in 1907 and left Longton at 21 years of age. She lived to ago 103 in Canada.

[@kathleenswift7979]

My great grandad was a saggar maker's bottom knocker😁real job title. My dad is on the mural on the outside of the Potteties Museum, he helped to make it and became good friends with the artist, Frank Maurier. My brother was a kiln man for twenty years on Doultons.

[@blueponyfarm1962]

My grandmother started working at 9yrs old in the Longton potteries. I wish there was a searchable database where I might locate the actual pottery that employed her, her mother and siblings.

[@SP-kh7dp]

Same here my grans whole family worked in Longton pottery,living on Sutherland terrace in from 1865

[@mimsicle1]

My husband’s gran did as well as her mother and sisters. They were Doughty’s and lived on Lower John Street.

[@TheAmerican1963]

My family, on my Mothers side, is from there and worked in the foundries ..............................

[@scoppio07]

Poor Sarah Bowers.