5475
Accession Number
6108
Author
Aslet, Clive
Title Of Article Chaper
Revival of a tile-works
Title Of Journal Book
Country life
Volume
167
Issue
4307
Pages
224-226
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
A brief history of the tilemakers Maw and Company, Jackfield, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, is given. Its present owner, Telford Development Corporation, is turning a portion of it into a museum which is due to open in 1982. Large decorative tiles have been dismantled from various sites, conserved, and installed in the museum. Treatment details not given. They are also making tiles from nineteenth century molds. -- AATA
pub_id
5475