don't know if there has been a topic on this Would like to know where the factory was. Could only find this May have to try street directories around 1902
Leave Hamilton Square at its south-west corner, passing in short order the
home of Conrad Dressler, sculptor and co-director of the Della Robbia
Pottery (34a Hamilton Square), and the central Della Robbia studio (2a
Price Street). Head along Price Street as far as the junction with ADELPHI
ROAD to find the Stork Hotel, a most unusual public house built in 1840 but
thoroughly refurbished inside and out, probably by the Birkenhead Brewery,
Did those arty types have factories or did they do their work in their studios, didn't last that long did it and not sure it was massed produced. probably wrong.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
have loads of clay in my gardens - don't know if it's of the quality of the Moreton clay used in the Della Robbia pottery Any would be potters can come and dig it out and replace it with soil or paving stones - no charge to wiki members
my great-grandad worked for della robbia from when he was 12, he was an amazing artist. He only worked for them for a few years though. Their pieces are real collectors items.
Back in the '40s-'50s there was a shop in Grange Road which had 'Della Robbia' in mosaic on the door step. Was it the firm's retail outlet? I think it was towards the Argyle Street end, somewhere near Allanson's (Beattie's). Bri
Picked up a couple of interesting booklets on Della Robbia from the Williamson (a general history of the pottery and a copy of the 1896 pricelist; some copies below)
First up is a copy of the workers circa 1899.
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Copies of the first two pages of the 1896 price list. Considering that the average weekly (agricultural) workers wages were c 13s 9d( http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-Money.html#1850) then these objects would be out of the reach of the common man.