Tyne and Wear HER(4452): Sunderland, Pottery Bank, Pottery - Details
4452
Sunderland
Sunderland, Pottery Bank, Pottery
Sunderland
NZ45NW
Industrial
Pottery Manufacturing Site
Pottery Works
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
A pottery was sited at the mouth of the river Wear on the south bank in 1753. This was probably the Sunderland or Garrison Pottery, founded circa 1750. Garrison Pottery is shown on Thomas Meik’s, "View of an improved entrance to Sunderland Harbour", a lithograph of 1849. Wood’s plan of 1826 shows a pottery works on Pottery Bank.
4070
5770
NZ40705770
<< HER 4452 >> J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth
G.W. Ball, 1906, Potteries of Sunderland, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 7
J. Barker, (ed.) 1984, Sunderland Pottery, p 8