{"id":4288,"date":"2024-06-10T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2024-06-07T09:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T09:08:35","slug":"the-art-of-industry-a-lost-tiled-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2024\/06\/10\/the-art-of-industry-a-lost-tiled-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Industry \u2013 A Lost Tiled Mural?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jo Amey first encountered the archive material of Carter and Co of Poole over 40 years ago in their tile factory in Hamworthy.\u00a0 As a final year ceramics student she was researching the history of tiled buildings in the local area for her thesis.\u00a0 She can still recall carefully copying the tile designs from the factory pattern books in the atmospheric setting overlooking the harbour.<\/p>\n

Many years later, her interest in tiled heritage revived and she built on her original research by recording tiles in situ and giving illustrated talks to groups. \u00a0The Carter and Co Archives<\/a> at the Dorset History Centre proved to be an invaluable resource and she was delighted to be able to study the tile factory pattern books again, which found a safe home there after the break up of Poole Pottery.<\/p>\n

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D-PPY\/A\/6\/10\/13: Slip outline mural at the entrance to a new electrical motor works near Poole, October 1961.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year she used the archive material when preparing a talk for the Twentieth Century Society, which focused on the company\u2019s work with architects from 1920 to 1970.\u00a0 One of the many fascinating finds in the album D-PPY\/A\/6\/10\/13<\/a> was a photo of a slip-outline tiled mural on the Parvalux Factory in Wallisdown Road, Bournemouth. \u00a0The mural had been installed in 1961 and showed a blue-print of a motor.\u00a0 The tiles can no longer be seen and the area shown in the photo on the right of the building has been altered since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the designer is not recorded but there is a brochure, also in this album, from the Carter Group stand at the Olympia Building Exhibition of 1961.\u00a0 This shows an illustration of a mural showing machinery in a very similar style designed by Kenneth Bawden.<\/p>\n

Some comments on a social media page suggested that the tiles had been relocated to the other side of the building and later covered with a dark render.<\/p>\n

Planning permission is being sought for this site so it can be redeveloped for a supermarket which will involve the demolition of the factory building.\u00a0 Jo\u2019s hope is that this will provide an opportunity to have the fa\u00e7ade investigated and the tiles, if still extant, removed and re-sited on the new building.\u00a0\u00a0 This would restore a remarkable example of a mid-century tile design that is site-specific and reflects two significant aspects of local industrial history.<\/p>\n

Jo can be contacted at jo@tilelady.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jo Amey first encountered the archive material of Carter and Co of Poole over 40 years ago in their tile factory in Hamworthy.\u00a0 As a final year ceramics student she was researching the history of tiled buildings in the local area for her thesis.\u00a0 She can still recall carefully copying the tile designs from the… Read more The Art of Industry \u2013 A Lost Tiled Mural?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[82,202,109,624],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4296,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}