Access to the Furnace inside one of the bottle kilns.

The kiln was heated from below by a number of coal fires which were stoked from exterior firemouths. The flues from the firemouths pass under the floor to the well-hole and in doing so heated the floor and the kiln.

Looking up inside a kiln showing the texture caused by the bricks in the outer skin, known as the Hovel, and also the separate internal cone, the oven, of the kiln.

The Saggar Maker in his workshop. The Saggar Maker would have been regarded as a highly skilled craftsman and would, originally, have had two helpers - the Framemaker and the Bottom Knocker.

The Framemaker beat the clay into a sheet on a metal table using a large mallet. Using a frame he would cut it to size, sprinkle it with sawdust and wrap it round a wooden block to make the walls.

The Bottom Knocker, usually a boy in his early teens, did the same on a smaller scale, constructing the round or banjo-shaped bottom.