Description:The camera is looking northeast from the corner of Prospect Street and Irwell Street (previously West Street) with A J Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery (the Mersey Pottery) on the right. This sprawling potworks stretched back behind the camera down to the Trent & Mersey canal. The terraced houses on then left were built before 1880. The road at the bottom is Newport Lane.
The shining car on the right is a 1960s Vauxhall Velox with the intriguing registration "142 K".
Prospect Street remains, but the view today is very different. All the buildings have been demolished, to the left is Middleport Park and to the right modern housing.