Pottery Bank, Pottery

Pottery Bank, Pottery

HER Number
4452
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Pottery Bank, Pottery
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Pottery Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Pottery Works
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
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.
Easting
440700
Northing
557700
Grid Reference
NZ440700557700
Sources
<< 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