The opening of Chapter I
Potteries of the Tyne, Tees, and Wear--Newcastle-on-Tyne--Warburton Pottery--Newcastle Pottery or Forth Banks Pottery--Stepney Bank Pottery--Ouseburn Bridge Pottery--Ouseburn Ford Pottery--Ouseburn Potteries--Low Pottery--South Shore Pottery--Phœnix Pottery--St. Peter’s Pottery--Gateshead--Carr’s Hill Pottery--St. Anthony’s Pottery--Sherriff Hill Pottery--Tyne Main Pottery--North Shields--Low Light Pottery--South Shields--Tyne or Shields Pottery--North Hylton--South Hylton or Ford--Southwick Pottery--Wear Pottery--High Southwick Pottery--Deptford Pottery--Monkwearmouth--Sheepfold Pottery--Sunderland Pottery and the Garrison Pottery--Seaham Harbour--Newbottle--Bishop Auckland--New Moor Pottery--Stockton-on-Tees--Stafford Pottery--North Shore Pottery--Middlesborough-on-Tees--Wolviston Pottery--Coxhoe Pottery--Alnwick.
The following brief account of the earthenware works of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and its district, drawn up for the British Association, in 1863, by Mr. C. T. Maling, one of the manufacturers, may serve as an introduction to this chapter. “The manufacture of white earthenware was introduced into this district by Mr. Warburton, at Carr’s Hill Pottery, near Gateshead, about 1730 or 1740. Those works were very successfully carried on for seventy years, when they gradually declined, and in 1817 were closed. A small portion of the building is still used as a brown ware pottery. The next manufactory was built by Mr. Byers, at Newbottle, in the county of Durham, about 1755, where brown and white earthenware still continues to be made. In 1762, Messrs.