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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Br1gau on Tuesday 10 January 12 20:10 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
The Pottery Buildings in Cleland have turned up as a residential address from the time of the 1911 census until about 1927. I have not found any information or images on the web about this. Were they purpose built as dwelling houses or converted from the Cleland Pottery itself which closed in 1911?
brigyn
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Possibly purpose built for the workers at the pottery which continued to be used as accomodation when the pottery closed
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The Pottery Buildings show as residential accomodation in 1901...a number of households show there that year (civil parish Holytown).
Monica :)
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Thank you both for that.
It does look as if they were purpose built housing if they appear as dwellings in 1901 also.
brigyn
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Hi
Cleland Pottery Buildings were on Cleland Estate side of the tillan burn opp Omoa Square and just north east of Whitecraighead.
Copy and paste this link which take you to National Library of Scotland Maps.
http://geo.nls.uk/search/#zoom=6&lat=56.71138&lon=-4.9&layers=B00000FFFFFFFTFFFT
1. Choose a map series: OS 6 inch - 1892-1960
Then click on sheet below new window open up
Lanarkshire Sheet XII.SE
Surveyed/Revised: 1896, Published: 1899
Lanarkshire Sheet XII.SE
Surveyed/Revised: 1910, Published: 1913
Which shows Pottery not sure if there were any house on pottery grounds so people would have lived in Cleland ( pronounced Cleeland and not Clelland) or in Omoa
Village takes its name from my family Cleland of that Ilk Cleland is softed from Kneeland ( K was ponounced )
if you are near to Motherwell go to Motherwell heritage centre where you well find maps and Wishaw Press about the fire that closed down Cleland pottery.
Cleland
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All the residents that I know who live there say they come from CLELLAND and not CLEELAND
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They are all incomers and wrong they are not family as I'm Cleland, we pronounce it as Cleeland the softed from Kneeland ( Knieland Kneland)
you don't say Clevelland or Lelland do you. its Cleveland and Leland.
Cleland
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You've lost me ;D
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Thank you for the map links - always good to have.
brigyn
Here in another Celtic country we would say Clelland, but then what would we know, we just play rugby!
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CLELAND POTTERY-HISTORY
Prior to its destruction by fire, Cleland Pottery was a major part of the village economy, employing about 100 men and women. Following the catastrophic fire in December 1914, stoneware production came to an end and the factory’s demise caused a lot of hardship in the village.
Most of the facts relating to Cleland Pottery have been researched and assembled by George Russell and James Reid- members of the Scottish Pottery Society. James Reid lives in Cleland, therefore has a particular interest in Cleland Pottery stoneware as well as the history of the company. They have jointly written an article on the subject in the Journal of the Scottish Pottery Society (26th historical review 2015); a copy of which is in the reference section of Cleland library. The only known image of Cleland Pottery is a skyline fragment of the factory in an image taken probably in the 1920’s.
Cleland Pottery had three sets of owners in its lifetime.
From 1890 the Omoa Fireclay Company (brickware and [probably] pottery manufacturers). From 1895 the Cleland Pottery Company, and from 1899 John B. Kennedy.
The pottery works site amounted to over 4 acres, and was located on the west side of the Tillan Burn, south-west of Omoa Square. Large deposits of fireclay were nearby. Many of the factory employees were housed in a 2 storey building known as the Pottery Building (possibly part of the small settlement to the south called Easterhouse). Other factory workers were known to live in Omoa Square.
The Cleland Pottery was formed from and by the existing Omoa Fireclay Company, however things did not go well, and Cleland Pottery ended in voluntary liquidation in January 1899.
In 1900 John Barbour Kennedy acquired the Cleland Pottery Company from the liquidation for £1000, and with John Agnew (Brickmaker, Fireclay Manufacturer, Coal Owner and entrepreneur), proceeded to revitalise production. When John Agnew [1862-1914] stayed in Omoa Cottage in 1891, he was a managing brickwork partner of the Omoa Fireclay Company.
There is an extensive inventory of the factory’s buildings and machinery in 1895 which included two steam engines and their associated boilers, circular water well facilities with piping and pump to feed the boilers, blocks and cases for mould making, 5550 moulds, paddle spade drums, 3 throwers wheels, 12 mould stoves, ware drying stove, 6 dripping tubs etc. The main buildings consisted of the engine house, boiler house and boiler seats with an 80 foot high chimney, low shed and railway loading banks. A 20 foot diameter circular kiln with iron hoops and seven stoke holes, 4 kilns complete with hoops. A 40 foot high kiln chimney, office and stores, a 4 stall stable, bogie road with rail and sleepers, points and crossings.
Manufactured products were very diverse and included domestic salt glazed crocks, jugs, bottles, jars for jam and domestic foodstuffs, pharmacy jars, teapots, chimney pots, electrical insulators, and marbles and peevers for children (a flat stone used in the game of hop-scotch).
The Wishaw Press described the fire of 1914:-
WISHAW PRESS – 18th December 1914 - Fire at Omoa Pottery – Damage £4000.
“Omoa Pottery Works, Cleland, were on Saturday night, destroyed by fire. The premises had been closed for the weekend and the outbreak was discovered by passers-by observing sparks rising from the manufacturing department, a large two storey brick building 150 feet long and 72 feet wide. By the time the County Fire brigade from Bellshill appeared on the scene, the fire, fanned by a hurricane wind, was raging fiercely, the conflagration been seen for miles around. From the first it was evident that the main block was doomed, and the efforts of the firemen were directed to preventing the flames from spreading to other buildings. In this they were for the most part successful, the direction of the wind temporarily aiding them in saving the stores, stables and offices…..the manufacturing part of the works was completely gutted and a great quantity of machinery and material in process of manufacture was destroyed. The origin of the fire is not known, but is supposed to have been due to the high wind causing sparks from some of the fires that had been left burning.”
There is a dating problem regarding when the factory ceased trading; but John B Kennedy appears in the valuation list as owner in 1920 and possibly up to 1928.
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You've lost me ;D
Lost me too. I was at school in Wishaw with kids from Omoa Rd and no one ever said 'Clee' . It was always 'clegh'