TheOld Teapot Pottery is a memory from childhood that was at Ravenhead area.
Doulton had another pottery in Boundary Road. Also one in Gerrards Bridge (one of the slum areas) but inhabited by some hardworking people. My grandparents had a shop down there, no point in have such a place in an area without the population to frequent it. had it near to the Glass works. plenty of people passing at least twice a day.
My book will cover the town consisting of the four townships, plus photographs, "stories" "people" old pubs, shops, and events, but not genealogy as such ie. specific families. people need to do that themselves.
I get many many phone calls from people I know from yesteryear, asking me to put them out of their misery in that they cannot remember where something was, or when something happened.
Its interesting as well and good to help with "facts".
There were more glass manufacturers than potteries. There was a pottery in Prescot adjacent to St Helens.
From being a very young child I was taken on walks, to different areas of the town and villages by my mother and as we walked she told me the history of the houses, and things we could see. She also took me to visit family regularly and I knew all my cousins and second cousins very well, so that has been an enormous help.
We also wrote it down what we had seen on our walks as my grandmama who lived with us could not stand "idle hands" she said "idlle hands get into mischief" so I wrote, I sewed, knitted, crocheted, embroidered, took part in singing festivals, girl guides, went to Dancing Class and appeared on stage.
We couldn't just sit and listen to the radio we had to have a project on the go as well. Some of the things were given to people who had very little, who were customers of Grandmother.
As a result we made our presents for family an schoolfriends, and things for ourselves, I still have table cloths I embroidered when I was 13 years old. which I know treasure very much.
