Auteur: Nigel S
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William Henry Goss started his ceramics business at the Cock Works, John Street, Hanley in 1858 making ivory porcelain busts known as Parian-ware, and heraldic china. In 1870 he moved into the Sturgess St, Stoke, Falcon Works; not to be confused with J.H.Weatherby's Falcon Works on Old Town Rd, Hanley - see www.flickr.com/photos/nigelphoto2011/. In 1883 Goss' son Adolphus joined the company but following a disagreement with his father he left to start up on his own. Between 1902 and 1905 the Falcon Works was extended with the building of the offices and workshop block. In 1906 William died and left the company to his two younger sons Victor Henry and William Huntley. Regrettably Victor died in a hunting accident soon after and William Huntley Goss was more interested in spending his inheritance than with the bother of running a company. In 1929 what remained of the W.H.Goss & Co business was bought by Cauldon Potteries of Shelton who had also acquired Coalport China in 1926. The Depression of the 1930's greatly affected Cauldon's export market and the Falcon Works closed its doors in 1944. For the next fifteen years a few sections of the building were rented out to various small enterprises until 1961 when the Falcon Works and the adjacent Kirkham's Ltd. factory were purchased by the Portmeirion Group; in 1979 the site was Grade II listed. However although Portmerion continues to operate from the Kirkhams Ltd. site today, the Falcon Works has remained largely vacant since 1944. The site was purchased in 2011 by a company named Connexa and sold on to Diwan Property Development Ltd of London in Jan 2021. It has been set on fire on several occasions throughout the last 75 years, the last time on 10th. July 2022. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
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