Bell's Pottery
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 85 boxes of artefacts associated with Bell's Pottery, Glasgow, which dates from between 1840 and 1929. This collection represents an archaeological assemblage from the 1996 excavations at Bell's Pottery. It contains a complete saggar (a container used to protect the pottery from flames and smoke), pottery sherds including cane ware, parian ware and red earthenware, and over 300 moulds as well as glass and kiln furniture. The excavations also revealed the stone bases of a large flint-crushing machine, the floor of the cellar of the sanitary pressing shop, the remains of five bottle kiln bases, one non-circular kiln with metal firing door and grate still in situ, a clay bunker, and the footings of several buildings. John and Matthew Preston Bell established Bell's Pottery in the early 1840s. Initially producing sanitary ware and garden ornaments, the pottery went on to produce porcelain from 1842 onwards. Between 1894 and 1919, the pottery was reduced in size as the Caledonian Railway expanded, and by 1929 it had closed.
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