NEW WORKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 23

NEW WORKS

FAMOUS POTTERY FIRM

GARDEN SUBURB PLANNED

(By Air Mall, from "The Post's" London

Representative.)

LONDON, August 18.

Some time ago Mr. Keith D. P. Murray (late of Auckland) and Mr. C. S; White were appointed architects for the new factory which Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, of JEtruria, Stoke-on-Trent, are to build at Barlaston, just outside the oity boundary. In addition to the factory. & new garden suburb will be developed. The layout of the estate and the planning of the village has been undertaken by Mr. Louis de Soissons, chief architect of Welwyn Garden City. Mr. Murray and Mr.-White are the architects. Extensive equipment will be installed for the elimination of smoke. Eighteen acres of sports grounds and a hall to seat 700 persons are being provided, and the ancient Barlaston Hall will be used as the factory museum. -- ■ It is expected that the completion of the works and the first village of a hundred houses will take approximately eighteen months. The total cost of the scheme, comprising the estate, the first factory arid its equipment, and the first village will, be about £300,000. .. The estate is of 181 acres, 140 of which is reserved as a permanent open space. Announcing particulars of this new centre. "The Times" says that the firing of ware by all-electric means will be a feature of, the factory. The contract for the first part of the works has been placed, and the stone-laying ceremony has been fixed for next month, when six veteran work-people will lay in the foundation pieces of Wedgwood ware inscribed with their names. The factory will employ 600 operatives and will produce the firm's fine earthenware only. The plans provide for an extension later to include the manufacture of china, jasper, and black basalt. When making a baked custard, warm the milk before adding the beaten eggs, and the custard will stay set even if the oven becomes too hot. To soften eggs that have boiled too long, put them into a basin of cold water and leave for half a minute. If a teaspoonful of olive oil is mixed with the butter in cake-making, its i flavour will be unnoticed and the cake will keep fresh, much longer.