Brocton. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Brocton, Staffordshire.
Brocton. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Brocton, Staffordshire.
The building on the left is Brocton Mission Hall.
Brocton. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Brocton, Staffordshire.
Bromley Arms, Ellastone
The Bromley Arms, Ellastone, photographed by William Blake of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. The Bromley Arms was formerly Ellastone Old Hall, and dates from the late 17th century.
This photograph is now ...
Brook House, Bucknall
The Brook House, Bucknall, built in about 1636. It was dismantled in 1974 and moved to Knighton, near Mucklestone.
Photographed by William Blake of Longton.
Brook House, Bucknall
The Brook House, Bucknall, built in about 1636. It was dismantled in 1974 and moved to Knighton, near Mucklestone.
Photographed by William Blake of Longton.
Brook House, Bucknall
The Brook House, Bucknall, built in about 1636. It was dismantled in 1974 and moved to Knighton, near Mucklestone.
Photographed by William Blake of Longton.
Broomfield House, Etruria Vale. Circa 1910
This photograph was donated to The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery by Mr. William Cooper in 1996. He tells us that this is Broomfield House at Etruria Vale. At the time of the photograph it was the house ...
Brushing.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman brushing bone china tea cups on a machine.
Brushing the ware ensured the ware was free from dust or grit prior to glazing.
Taken at the Shelley pottery factory, ...
Building the clammins, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a loaded kiln stacked with saggars prior to firing. The man is ‘building the clammins’, a temporary seal in the wall of the oven with an access point through which ...
Buller's Appeal, or Last Shift - Broadside ballad sheet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Broadside ballad entitled Buller's Appeal, or Last Shift.
And down my dear RADS, with your Guineas apiece
The song appears to be a rallying cry from an election candidate in need of financial assistance.
Russell's ...
Burgess & Leigh, Port Street, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent
A crowded printing room at Burgess & Leigh in the mid 1930’s. Much of the printing was still done by hand. Notice the roller machine in the centre of the picture. This would be used for making patterned ...
Burial Mound, Swynnerton. Photographed by William Blake.
A burial mound in Swynnerton Park.
Burnishing in a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior with a view of a woman in the process of burnishing a plate.
Burnishing
Burnishing was the process whereby fired gold applications were rubbed to produce a lustrous finish.
Silver ...
Burnishing ware, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior with a view of female workers in the process of burnishing ware. They are positioned facing the window as they needed good light to do the job. Taken at Minton's factory, London ...
Burslem and Wolstanton Poor Union - a document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In the 1790s, the expense of providing relief to the poor fell upon local parishes in Stoke-on-Trent.
This document outlines a meeting held to discuss sharing the costs between Burslem and nearby Wolstanton.
The ...
Burslem Co-operative Society Ltd., Birches Head Road, Birches Head. Circa 1900
The local co-operative shop and post office at Birches Head. The Co-operative Society was set up to protect working class consumers from unscrupulous shopkeepers selling foodstuffs that had been tampered ...
Burslem June 20th. 1804 - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Hand-written invoice from Enoch Wood to a group of wealthy local men who have agreed to pay for a dinner taken by the Longport Volunteer Corps.
Volunteer Corps
The French Revolution in 1789 signalled ...