An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Number 1"

Brunswick Road, Buckley

1967

These offices were likely to have served both the pottery and the brickworks - per. Martin Harrison (November 2010)

see entry 1.239

AN INDUSTRIAL AND POTTERY WALK ROUND BUCKLEY - NUMBER 1

Our trail begins at Messrs. Davies, funeral directors, Daisy Hill. Here we see several sheds and a small two- storied building, once the offices of Hancock's pottery. The kilns of this pottery, working from about 1760, lie under the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, and the church hall adjacent. Outbuildings to the rear and access to the backside form part of the complex.

Many buildings and walls are constructed of original bricks. These bear the imprints of "W. Hancock and Co." on their exposed face. An iron plateway, possibly the third earliest in Wales, started here. Rigby, an iron- master of Hawarden, and his partner, William Hancock, completed an iron tramway commencing at Sandycroft on the River Dee and finishing on Daisy Hill at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Branches of the line, possibly of slotted stone blocks, join the main route at several places.

The offices are now a funeral directors.

Author: Bentley, James

An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Number 1"

Brunswick Road, Buckley

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