{"id":1216,"date":"2015-03-09T20:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2015-03-09T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:53:21","slug":"burslem-in-1730-and-1790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2015\/03\/09\/burslem-in-1730-and-1790\/","title":{"rendered":"Burslem in 1730 and 1790"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/burslem_town_centre_1790.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/burslem_town_centre_1790.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"burslem_town_centre_1790\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1217\" \/><\/a><br \/>Burslem town centre in 1790, &#8220;Maypole&#8221; marked at the top being roughly where the Town Hall now stands.  &#8220;Locket&#8217;s Cob&#8221; was perhaps the town centre&#8217;s muck and fire-ashes heap, as it appears to be drawn as if a muck-heap. Though &#8216;shoard&#8217; perhaps indicates a tip for pottery shards. Possibly it was both house-fire ashes and shards. Cob meant any thick round mass: as used in a cobble-stone, a cob-nut (hazelnut), a cob-coal (a coal lump smoothed down to a soap shape), or horse dung. Still in use today for a cob loaf of bread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/burslem_church_pottery_site_1730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/burslem_church_pottery_site_1730.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"burslem_church_pottery_site_1730\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1218\" \/><\/a><br \/>Diorama made from a map of Burslem in the 1730s, showing the location of the pottery in relation to the church.  The church still stands today. The view is from south to north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burslem town centre in 1790, &#8220;Maypole&#8221; marked at the top being roughly where the Town Hall now stands. &#8220;Locket&#8217;s Cob&#8221; was perhaps the town centre&#8217;s muck and fire-ashes heap, as it appears to be drawn as if a muck-heap. Though &#8216;shoard&#8217; perhaps indicates a tip for pottery shards. Possibly it was both house-fire ashes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}