The essentials
80 Bullers Rings and a Measuring Gauge
- as used for the current glost firing in the gas kiln at Gladstone
- trials measuring gauge - from Gladstone
- old, used, trial rings for display
1 Ton of Wad Clay
- 1 cwt required by 10 August 1978 for testing
- deliver to Gladstone, pug room, by Thurs 24 August 1978
- quantity later revised upwards to 2 tons
5 cwt (Hundred Weights) arch bricks
- to build checker brickwork in glut arches
- from Gladstone yard. Billy the builder.
0.5 Tons Red building sand
- from Longton Builders
- in bags of 56 lb weight
- delivered 25 August 1978
250 Common Bricks
- for building the clammins
- delivered 19 August 1978
2 cwt Building marl
- same clay as saggar marl or wad clay
- needs to be dry and un-grogged
12 tons Florence Nuts COAL
- plus materials for lighting fires, newspaper, wooden sticks (dry)
Also
- thimbles for dottling - from Gladstone dipping house
- lots of saddles - from Gladstone placing shop
- kiln furniture - from Gladstone placing shop
Tools and Equipment - some borrowed from Gladstone
- Two short iron hooks for opening firedoors - from engine house
- Two short punching pokers
- Two trial hooks for drawing Bullers Rings from oven
- Three No.8 British Standard Shovels for baiting - from fitting shop
- Five saggarmakers' shords - from saggar making shop
- One bench - from engine house
- One big chair - from engine house
- One wooden wheel barrow - from yard
- One metal wheelbarrow - from yard
- One sack truck for moving sacks of coal - from fitting shop
- One pub table - wooden - from fitting shop
- Three 'osses in good condition. One at least 9 to 10 feet high - from yard
- Wad boards
- Ware boards
- Two placing benches
- Demonstration wad mill
- 12 wooden boards for standing on in oven
- One extension light for use in oven
- Gloves for handling saggars
- One wheelbarrow for removing ashes - from yard
- Special display items - bowls of lobby
- One set of barriers for putting around placers in placing shop
- One set of barriers for putting around factory kilns
- One recording thermocouple
- One set of turnstiles
- One set of barriers for between turnstiles
- Chairs/stools for use by turnstile attendants
- Metal rings or bricks for balancing saggars on while placing
- Kettle or coffee pots filled with oil and taper for lighting
- One set of hoarding to be placed at rear of Caroline Works
- Two cash boxes / ticket boxes
- One set emergency exit signs/fire exit signs
- One set advertising/instruction signs
- Identity passes for volunteers
- Tables and chairs for Red Cross and for media people
- Benches at Gladstone for unpacking ware
- No parking signs at from entrance to Hudson and Middleton
- Vehicle for transporting equipment