Key dates in the English Pottery Industry
- 1467: Coal used for firing kilns.
- 1567: Jasper Andries producing delft ware in Norwich.
- 1670: Introduction of saggars.
- 1671: Duright in London producing salt glazed stoneware.
- 1693-9: Elers Brothers in Staffordshire - salt glazing, sprigging and casting.
- c.1700: Alabaster used for moulds.
- 1720: Ball clay and flint used.
- 1730: Ralph Shaw introduces slip kiln.
- 1745: Introduction of plaster of Paris moulds.
- 1749: Some use of calcined bone in pottery.
- 1750: Lead oxide used as clear glaze.
- 1755: Sadler and Green use transfer prints to decorate pottery.
- 1762: Josiah Wedgwood introduces Queensware, a cream coloured earthenware.
- 1766: Brindley begins the Grand Trunk Canal (Trent and Mersey).
- 1768: Cookworthy uses Cornish stone and china clay to produce a type of porcelain.
- 1776-1800: Josiah Spode II introduces bone china.
- 1777: The Grand Trunk/Trent and Mersey Canal opened.
- 1779: Spode introduces the steam engine to the pottery industry.
- 1813: C J Mason introduces ironstone clay into earthenware body.
- 1823: Job Meigh introduces a lead free glaze.
- 1842: Parian body introduced.
- 1844: Introduction of the jigger.
- 1856: First use of the filter press.
- 1863: Tiles produced by dust pressing.
- 1863: First use of acid gold.
- 1870: Solon introduces Pate-sur-pate.
- 1894: Introduction of fritted lead for glazing.
- 1949: Last recorded death by lead poisoning.
