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Lorries loading ball clay from the storage silo at Blackpool Pit ref.no. 5572 ([1970?])

Part of the refining and blending plant at Goverseth ref.no. 540 ([1970?])

Part of the Standard porcelain plant where china clays are blended to produce potting clays of consistent specification ref.no. 2894 ([1970?])

A mechanical drying plant with (right) the oil-fired furnace ref.no. 555 ([1970?])

The clay stream running down to the pit bottom on its way to the refining and drying processes ref.no. 517 ([1970?])

A remotely controlled power-hose or monitor, washing raw clay from the pit face ref.no. 6778 ([1970?])

Extracting china clay in a newly started pit ref.no. 31012 ([1920?])

Interior of a pan-kiln or dry, with clay scored into squares, circa 1920 ref.no. 12878 ([1920?])

China clay (c.1900)

Typical air-drying sheds at the end of the 19th centruy ref.no. 12887 ([1900?])

Micadrags and settling pits at Kernick Clay Works, St.Stephens, ca 1920 ref.no. 12910 ([1920?])

A working pit, probably in the Bugle area, c.1926 ref.no. 12873 ([1926?])

Working ..

General view of Gt.Carclaze china clay pit ref.no. 9234 ([1960?])

China clay, loading etc, Par ([1960?])

Margaret Lattimore

Fowey. Loading china clay ([1960?])

Margaret Lattimore

Lee Moor. China clay settling tank c1950 (c.1950)

Margaret Lattimore

Modern pottery (1876)

Richard Nicholls Worth

The clays and fictile manufacturers of Cornwall and Devon (1887)

Richard Nicholls Worth

The china clay industry of Southwest England (1952)

Norman J. G. Pounds