Description:Lantern slide with a view of Florence Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Named after the Duke of Sutherland's daughter, the pit was opened in 1874 and was worked until 1990.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this slide reads;
"A Colliery. Coal enters into the making of pottery as much as clay, and the vast quantity used has already been pointed out."