Clay and Pottery Industries, Vol. 1

1914

Mellor Papers

London: Griffin and Co.,

In January 1905, Mellor was appointed instructor of the Pottery School at Tunstall, which along with Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton make up ‘the Potteries’ in Staffordshire. In 1908 a large shed was erected for the pottery classes on land donated to the ‘industry’ by A.S. Bolton, but as Graham Balfour notes in Clay and Pottery Industries (1914) the wide-angle lens used for taking the photographs ‘greatly exaggerate the spaciousness of the interior.’ It is here in his ‘sanctum’ that Mellor taught his students. In 1905 Mellor also became Director of the Research Laboratories of the Federation, and Honorary Secretary of the Ceramic Society (UK) and editor of its journal.