Jaw Crusher - Cheddleton, Staffordshire.
N 53° 04.252 W 002° 02.599
30U E 564097 N 5880581
A 'Jaw Crusher' machine located at the Cheddleton Flint Mill near the Caldon Canal in Cheddleton.
Waymark Code: WMV9V7
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/20/2017
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The Cheddleton Flint Mill is a grinding watermill located on the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton. It was previously used for supplying the pottery industry further along the canal in Stoke-on-Trent.
It is a museum open to the public free of charge, and has been preserved by the Cheddleton Flint Mill Industrial Heritage Trust, with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund. (
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The Jaw Crusher is on display by the side of the Calcining Flint Kilns and is freely accessible.
An information plaque on the wall nearby reads as follows;
JAW CRUSHER
Function: crushed the flint ready for grinding
Age: made about 1870 in Leeds
Inventor: Eli Whitney Blake (American)
Material: Cast Iron
The machine which is red and green was maufactured by H.R Marsden and has the manufacturers details embossed on the front;
Marsden's
Granulator
H.R Marsden
Sole. Maker
Leeds
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'The ground, calcined flint produced by the mill was becoming a very important ingredient in earthenwares being produced in the nearby Potteries. Josiah Wedgwood had successfully marketed a new product called "creamware" which was becoming very popular. Calcined flint is white and thermally stable, making it an excellent ingredient in the new light-coloured wares that had become fashionable.' (
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