Manufacturing in the English Midlands
• In the eighteenth century, the
still determined how most people made a living.
• In the ground were minerals which supported the many
of the region.
• Since the late sixteenth century the French settlers had made
.
• In Cheshire
was mined and transported on the river Mersey.
• Potters worked in a few
situated on the small hills of North Staffordshire.
Pottery notes
Earthenware
advantages:
• pottery used
clay
• saved money on
disadvantages:
• needed two firings in the Kiln to be
• fragility led to high
during manufacturing
Stoneware
• more emotive but better
• made from a
of clay and flint