Brickhouse field, Lane End, (Longton)

[Zen Rabbit]

Anyone know where this was? Apparently my 4 X G grandfather Joseph Hollins died there in 1838 (in a cottage I presume not in the open field)

[olliecat]

Some clues...

Opposite to the present Lane End Church, and on the (now greatly enlarged) premises occupied by Messrs. Mayer and Newbold, during the many years Messrs. Thomas and Joseph Johnson made salt glaze white stone ware, as well as crouch war, and other kinds, from clay obtained from the Brickhouse Field, the spot now covered by houses belonging to Jacob Marsh Esq.

See page 172 of a 'History of the Staffordshire Potteries and the Rise and Progress of the Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain' by Simeon Shaw. A reprint of the original edition published by the Author in Hanley, 1829.

As far as I can make out Lane End Church was St John's, Longton and was demolished 1979. It's location is pointed to on a modern map here (click the 'Find Us' tab)...

www.
achurchnearyou.com/longton-oratory-chapel-st-john-the-baptist/

From this, Brickhouse Field may have been located somewhere in the vicinity of the premises belonging to Mayer and Newbold which was next to the church, (next to Rutland Road.) Will have have another poke around, see if there is anything else.

[Zen Rabbit]

Thanks for your help although I had seen that.
As you say I don't think that Brickhouse field was all that far away from Lane End church, possibly in the area once covered by Marsh St, which is where my ancestors lived in the mid 1800's.