Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
of Ford Potteries (Ford A Pottery and Ford B Pottery), Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Company founded by Christopher Thompson Maling
1859 Ford A factory built on a two-acre site in the Ouseburn Valley
1879 Ford B factory built on a 14-acre site in St. Lawrence, Newcastle, and was the largest pottery in Britain at that time
1901 Employing some 1,000 persons
1947 Company bought by Hoults
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