tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84704403760264735712024-03-05T21:47:14.123+00:00Potbank Dictionary - words and dialect of the PotteriesThe Potbank Dictionary - the peculiar language of the Staffordshire Potteries explainedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-32957382238507022922020-05-16T13:50:00.049+01:002023-10-02T11:22:43.491+01:00<div><b>The Potbank Dictionary</b> - here are those strange and special terms, such as <i><b><a href="https://tldrify.com/197r">saggar makers bottom knocker</a>,</b></i> <i><b><a href="https://tldrify.com/197s">wedging</a>,</b></i> and <i><b><a href="https://tldrify.com/197t">ginneter</a> </b></i>that were, at one time, very common in the north Staffordshire Potteries. There's also the special dialect of the district.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="249" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mADcr0hFFio" width="303" youtube-src-id="mADcr0hFFio"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/mADcr0hFFio"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://youtu.be/mADcr0hFFio</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">View the range of </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Potbank Dictionary Mugs <b><i><a href="https://potbankdictionary.blogspot.com/p/potbank-dictionary-mugs.html">here></a></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With over 10,000 terms, the Potbank Dictionary explains and demystifies the peculiar words and phrases collected during a lifetime in potbanks. Some are specific to a particular factory, others are quite common and some are quite technical. Much of the language is dying out as potbanks (pottery factories) are closed, skills are lost and manufacturing methods change. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is not a particularly academic work but it is factual and is rather quirky on places! Established in 1976 by Terry Woolliscroft and constantly updated. This site was archived for preservation by the British Library.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>The film below gives thay a grate start un sums eat owe up. Thay wonst give eat a goo, duck </i>😉<i> An if theyst gorrany werds wattle goo well ear send em t' may wut? </i>👉<i> terrywoolliscroft [at] gmail.com</i> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N6DJu1Ti5Kg" width="320" youtube-src-id="N6DJu1Ti5Kg"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/N6DJu1Ti5Kg">https://youtu.be/N6DJu1Ti5Kg</a></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-40151223367924683782020-05-16T13:48:00.007+01:002023-02-11T17:11:48.850+00:00What is a POTBANK?A place where pottery is made. <div><br /></div><div>It is the entire pottery factory including all the buildings and the yards involved in the potting process, from sliphouse to warehouse. According to the late Robert Copeland: “The term Potbank has been used for generations ... I believe that it derives from the days when Josiah Wedgwood was unable to meet the demand for his creamwares so he sub-contracted to other potters to make his shapes in the body of his specification, and to hold these stocks in their own warehouses for him to call upon as he required them. These warehouses were called banks. The term does not imply that the pottery was on a hillside nor by a canal or river.” More <b><i><a href="https://potbankdictionary.blogspot.com/p/what-is-potbank.html" target="_blank">here</a></i></b>></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Five Towns. An introduction to the glorious heritage of the Staffordshire Potteries"</span></h3><div>Britain on Film. Directed by Terry Bishop. 26 mins. The five towns of the Staffordshire Potteries region are passionately described in the film. As well as lovingly detailing the area’s famed production techniques, the documentary also looks at the challenges of post-war reconstruction in the region.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggS90j-OnKI198_NS_nADyTFD74yggxNoLhotZaTce8bTjOJ2YzFfmG3aHLlXP-MlyoE5-1gszwLMh6lHBpIcpZH67RtSGMPpbCmlb3E_m9hDk_TLL_PF5s00JSL79j9W9P_83HBK6D1CF2XFwl_AYTS1bz-2hF3HowrSVH0PImogpAYbXGTGs5_LqOQ/s1293/BFI%20Player%20FIVE%20TOWNS%201947.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1293" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggS90j-OnKI198_NS_nADyTFD74yggxNoLhotZaTce8bTjOJ2YzFfmG3aHLlXP-MlyoE5-1gszwLMh6lHBpIcpZH67RtSGMPpbCmlb3E_m9hDk_TLL_PF5s00JSL79j9W9P_83HBK6D1CF2XFwl_AYTS1bz-2hF3HowrSVH0PImogpAYbXGTGs5_LqOQ/w400-h258/BFI%20Player%20FIVE%20TOWNS%201947.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-five-towns-1947-online">https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-five-towns-1947-online</a></span></div><div><br />
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-35478334522388998132015-12-31T15:12:00.008+00:002022-11-16T18:37:33.986+00:00What are BOTTLE OVENS and KILNS?Huge and imposing, towering and daunting, brick-built, bottle-shaped structures, up to 70 feet high, essential in the making of pottery. The red-hot heart of the Potteries of Stoke-on-Trent.<br />
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In 1939 there were about 2000 bottle ovens and kilns, or, strictly speaking, bottle-shaped structures of various types used for firing pottery ware or its components. They dominated the landscape of the Potteries of Stoke-on-Trent. In 2019 there are fewer than 50 still standing complete with their chimneys. None will be ever be fired again. The Clean Air Act of 1956, and their delicate condition have put paid to that.<br />
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At the multi-award-winning <a href="https://gladstonepotterymuseumstory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Gladstone Pottery Museum</a>, in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, there are 4 bottle ovens and one bottle kiln. There are also two bottle ovens, next door, at the Roslyn Works. This is the most important and precious group of buildings in the Potteries.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">What are bottle ovens and kilns?</span></h3><div>Here is a really good and succinct description, of the bottle oven and bottle kiln. Courtesy of Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton. (Link to their site > <a href="https://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/gpm/">https://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/gpm/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bottle oven</b> is a generic term applied to a variety of brick-built, coal-fired ovens and kilns used in the north Staffordshire pottery industry. The name derives from the characteristic shape of the hovel or stack utilised by such structures, but covers a range of different types, some of which fired wares to a biscuit or glost state (these were known locally as <b>ovens</b>), with others (specifically referred to as <b>kilns</b> in the Potteries) used in the decorating process (<b>muffle kilns</b>), or the preparation of raw materials for ceramic bodies (<b>calcining kilns</b>) or glazes and colours (<b>frit kilns</b>). There was also variation in the means of construction. For example, not all types had independent hovels, many being enclosed within buildings and having the stack (which equated to the ‘neck’ of the bottle) constructed directly on top of the firing chamber or supported on an outer ‘skeleton’ structure. In addition, by the late 19th century, both up- and down-draught (in which heat was re-circulated around the firing chamber) types were in use within the industry.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br />
Take a look at The Potteries Bottle Oven website <b><i><a href="http://bottleoven.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a></i></b>><br />
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-52805139384794647582015-11-28T08:05:00.003+00:002020-01-25T09:50:46.269+00:00What is BONE CHINA?BONE CHINA A smooth textured and extremely white firing pottery body. Translucent and very strong. It is unique in that it contains a high proportion of calcined bone ash and biscuit fires at approx 1220 C. A type of porcelain.<br />
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Around fifty percent of the body recipe contains calcined cattle bones. Invented at the Spode factory in Stoke-on-Trent around 1800. The recipe contains about 50% calcined cattle bone, 25% china clay and 25% china stone. The bone used at Spode was more specifically the shins and knuckle bones of oxen. (Lower grades of bone china, not from Spode, may have used all or some bones from sheep or goats. But definitely not horses.) The bones are calcined at temperatures up to 1000 C before being ground to a fine powder and used in the bone china recipe. Bone china is extremely hard and intensely white.<br />
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<b>Bone China: a Particularly English Porcelain</b><br />
The Invention of Bone China: The Spode company, under Spode I and Spode II, is credited by potters, collectors, researchers and other experts with having perfected the bone china formula before 1800.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-11399275247989576662015-09-11T13:00:00.004+01:002022-10-27T16:56:44.486+01:00What is? BORDALOUEBORDALOUE Ladies portable urinal. Sometimes known as a 'coach pot.' Absolutely not a gravy boat. Made in their thousands in The Staffordshire Potteries. Examples on display at Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-26460138345019203662015-09-02T12:11:00.002+01:002015-11-30T16:07:55.981+00:00What is? PERFECTION<h3>
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<i><b>From the Collected Writings of Hermann, August Seger, 1872</b>.</i></h3>
"There are few industrial districts which are as interesting as the pottery towns of Staffordshire, not only on account of their enormous size and the variety of manufacture, but in a still higher degree, owing to the general, world-renowned reputation enjoyed by the products manufactured here for along time for their artistic and technical <b><i>perfection</i></b>."<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-17177688352769623442015-08-26T16:07:00.001+01:002015-11-30T16:09:04.884+00:00What is? FANCIES<b>FANCIES </b>Small, cheap, pottery ornaments created in either bone china or earthenware. Pretty and at the same time pretty useless. Slightly decorative, usually ugly for some tastes. Great for <i>oven fill</i>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-22982557515050759462015-08-13T20:37:00.000+01:002015-11-06T12:56:16.358+00:00What is? OSSVital in the bottle oven. Theses are the wooden step ladders used by placers in the oven to reach the top of bungs of saggars. Varying sizes. Lots to be seen at Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent <a href="http://gladstonepotterymuseumstory.blogspot.co.uk/">http://gladstonepotterymuseumstory.blogspot.co.uk/</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-54900992159698751512015-07-31T15:48:00.000+01:002015-11-06T12:56:59.170+00:00What is? MaodupClogged - as in drain, if you pour slip down it!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-78701674739862151902015-07-11T18:21:00.003+01:002015-07-11T18:22:57.789+01:00WORDS OF THE WEEK - 13 July 2015 - ODD MANODD MAN Occupation. Ovens Dept. More than a labourer. Could set his mind to virtually anything. But he worked particularly in the <i>ovens </i>department. One of his jobs would have been daubing clay on the <i>clammins </i>of an <i>oven</i>. Strange but true!<br />
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Last Bottle Oven Firing 1978 <a href="http://gladstonepotterymuseumstory.blogspot.co.uk/p/last-bottle-oven-firing.html" target="_blank">More here></a></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-56520538144428550292015-06-27T12:10:00.003+01:002015-06-27T12:13:04.276+01:00WORDS OF THE WEEK - 29 June 2015 - RUBBER UP<b>RUBBER UP</b> Occupation. Decorating department. Usually female. Rubs the pattern from a printed tissue 'pull' onto the biscuit ware. Q "What do you do for a living?" A "Arm a rubber up, duck".<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-9640737376555846472015-06-21T07:40:00.000+01:002015-06-21T09:16:21.905+01:00WORDS OF THE WEEK - 22 June 2015 - WORST SECONDS<b>WORST SECONDS </b>Faulty pot. More faulty and worse than seconds, similar to thirds, but not quite as bad as lump which is actually pretty awful. Possibly.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-64488935640975953872015-06-13T15:20:00.001+01:002015-06-13T15:24:51.984+01:00WORD OF THE WEEK - 15 June 2015 - PIG STICK<b>PIG STICK</b> Equipment. Potting department. A clay hardness penetrometer. Precision tool, calibrated annually, used to measure the stiffness/hardness of clay. Some potters use a finger.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-42728495870130485202015-05-15T14:51:00.003+01:002015-05-15T14:51:46.251+01:00WORDS OF THE WEEK - 18 May 2015 - Gladstone Pottery Museum <b>GLADSTONE POTTERY MUSEUM.</b> The potters' museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. One of the top three English small visitor attractions in 2015. 40 years since the Royal Opening on 24 April 1975 and still winning awards. But now with an uncertain future as the local City Council decide how to reduce costs and find "alternative methods of delivery."<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-75178161156172062342015-05-10T10:41:00.002+01:002015-05-10T13:37:27.570+01:00WORD OF THE WEEK - 11 May 2015 - KILLKILL : Kiln. Oven. Bottle Oven. Enamel Kiln. Tunnel Kiln. Top Hat Kiln. Intermittent Kiln. Rapid Fire Kiln. And more ...<br />
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It's where the metamorphosis of clay, during firing, takes place. It's where the irreversible change from clay to pot, upon which the whole of the craft and industry, is founded. The change which takes place in the <i><b>kill </b></i>at around 600 Celsius. It's where clay loses its chemically-bound water molecules and can no longer be broken down by water. Once this change has occurred it cannot be reversed. Ever. This ceramic change converts fragile and crumbly dry clay from Mother Earth into hard brittle pottery. This is both a chemical and physical change to the structure of the clay. Magic by fire!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-2947606470823971122015-05-01T16:17:00.002+01:002015-05-01T16:17:29.851+01:00WORD OF THE WEEK - 1 May 2015 - FINISHING FIREMANFINISHING FIREMAN Occupation. Some big potbanks would employ three men to fire a bottle oven. <b>The Fireman</b> - he was in charge and responsible for the whole firing cycle. <b>The Sitter Up</b> - he took over responsibility during the night hours. And <b>The Finishing Fireman</b> - he saw to it that there were no problems once the peak temperature had been reached and the correct soak time had been concluded. He would ensure the fires burnt out completely OK.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-29719154323863993562015-04-13T19:04:00.004+01:002015-04-14T14:37:19.330+01:00WORD OF THE WEEK - 13 April 2015 - LAVATORYNow this is messy, complicated and a tad confusing, so bear with me!<br />
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In the good old days, in the UK sanitaryware industry, sanitary pottery casters and warehouse packers, called a WASHBASIN a TABLE. But why? <br />
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Simples. But actually, the correct word, in those days, for a WASHBASIN or TABLE was LAVATORY. <br />
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The word LAVATORY is derived from the Latin word LAVARE, meaning 'to wash.' <br />
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Nowadays, a TOILET is often mistakenly called a LAVATORY since this is regarded as polite. But technically, it is incorrect.<br />
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Of course, while it would be correct to wash your hands in a LAVATORY or WASHBASIN or SINK (see below) it would be odd to wash your hands in a TOILET, or worse still, to do something 'exceptional' in a LAVATORY, WASHBASIN or SINK, don't you think?<br />
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And then there is the case of a SINK. This is not a WASHBASIN or a LAVATORY (or for that matter a TOILET) but a sink is designed for 'robust' use, perhaps in a kitchen. And it doubles up as a LAVATORY or WASHBASIN when you need to wash your hands, which is the end part (the grasping organ) of a person's arm beyond the wrist, including the palm, fingers, and thumb.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-22883643802996869892015-03-30T10:08:00.000+01:002015-03-30T10:08:37.617+01:00WORD OF THE WEEK - 30 March 2015 - GRAFTERGRAFTER Equipment. Ovens Dept. <i>Saggar </i>making. A flat D-shaped tool, a bit like a flat spade, and called a <i>grafter </i>was used to slice a flat piece of saggar marl from the <i>dump</i> (large lump of saggar marl clay) before use. See the movie, MAU'ING THE SAGGAR a film by Gerald Mee 1981, for the full story <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxxfklfEBTs" target="_blank">here></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-61601857292790015992015-03-15T16:19:00.001+00:002015-03-15T21:35:45.495+00:00WORDS OF THE WEEK -16 March 2015 - SORTING and SELECTINGSORTING vs SELECTING : Words not to be confused. Sorting is a process in the glost warehouse involving the removal of fired-on pips, stilt marks or kiln bits. Sorters use a special tool, made from steel about 1/8 inch thick, 1 inch broad, and from 10 to 12 inches long, and sharpened at each end, to knock the pip or stilt marks off the back of flatware (plates, soup plates and saucers) after it has been fired. Same as ginneting.<br />
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Selecting, however, is the inspection of flatware or holloware after a processing stage (biscuit, or glost, or enamel firing) to look for faults.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-2690902814569126252015-03-10T20:43:00.001+00:002015-03-10T20:43:34.746+00:00WORD OF THE WEEK - 9 March 2015 - HEATING UP DUNTHEATING UP DUNT Pottery fault. Sometimes known as an IN-DUNT. A body crack created during the heating cycle of the firing process. Characterised by smooth and rounded edges to the crack because the glaze flows into it and matures after the crack took place. <i>cf </i>out duntUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-45291425879840338722015-03-06T12:56:00.002+00:002015-03-06T12:56:45.046+00:00New definition just added ...<b>STRAW WRAPPED</b> Process. Warehouse and despatch. Applicable to very large pieces of pottery, for instance sanitaryware. Sanitary earthenware, when shipped in bulk (two-ton lots or more) in the 1920s and 30s was often sent wrapped in straw, without wooden cases or other protection. This style of packing, known as “Straw Wrapped," consisted of enveloping the article in straw secured in position by cord. The main advantage of Straw Wrapping was that the cost was only about half that of wooden cases or crates, and where freight was paid on a measurement/volume basis there was also a substantial saving in cost of transport.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-1815197403398800062015-03-01T14:39:00.000+00:002015-03-01T14:39:03.663+00:00WORD OF THE WEEK - 2 March 2015 - GREENGREEN - pronounced in The Potteries as GRANE. Pottery is green when it is still in the clay state but dry and quite hard, but not soft and 'plastic.' Green product is stored in the GREY NICE (Potteries dialect for greenhouse) before firing.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470440376026473571.post-38735027245892323682015-02-26T15:02:00.003+00:002015-02-26T15:02:56.311+00:00A Little Bit of HistoryThe Potbank Dictionary has grown from humble beginnings. I launched it in January 1976 as a regular column in The Friends of Gladstone Broadsheet and my first word was ARK. What a great word to launch it! <a href="http://potbankdictionary.blogspot.co.uk/p/links.html" target="_blank">more></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com