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The Price of Straw - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
One matter of special concern to pottery manufacturers was the rising price of the straw used to package their wares. Here, Chairman of the Staffordshire Potters, Ambrose Smith, announces that they will ...
The Price of Straw - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Every pottery manufacturer needed plenty of straw to ensure that their wares could be safely packed for transportation by road or canal.
At this meeting, the manufacturers of Lane End, Lane Delph and ...
The Price of Straw - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Supplies of straw were vital to the success of the pottery industry.
As a packaging material, it was used to soften the ride on bumpy roads.
It also helped to minimise the risks involved in loading ...
The Proposed Commercial Canal - Minutes of a Meeting
The management of a proposed new Commercial Canal has held a meeting at the Swan Inn, Hanley, to discuss the findings of Mr. Whitworth, who has been surveying the route planned for the new canal.
The ...
The Real Devil in Stoke On Trent
Industrial landscape taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photography and Design by William Blake.
This design, with its damning caption, is one of many that appear to confirm that Blake ...
The Royal Hotel, Westport Road, Burslem.
The Royal Hotel stood at 20 Liverpool Road (renamed Westport Road), next door to the Ryal or Hill Pottery. The top of a bottle oven is just peeking over the roof of the hotel. Parker's Ales supplied beer ...
The site of Ashworth's and Clementson's potteries, Hanley
The tall chimney on the left belonged to George Ashworth's Broad Street Works. On the right are the remains of a chimney belonging to Clementson's flint mill. The bottle ovens in between are part of ...
The Vicar and Moses figure
Earthenware figure decorated with coloured glazes. Height 245mm This figure is a satire on the complacency of the 18th century established church. The figure is impressed on the base 'Ra. Wood Burslem'....
The Victoria Pottery.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens and a chimney.
Taken at Victoria Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is ...
The view east over Buller's Electrical Porcelain works, Norton Lane, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east from Norton Lane with the higher ground of Baddeley Green, Stanley and Bagnall in the distance. Leek New Road (A53) runs through the centre of the photograph.
In the foreground is Buller's ...
The view north from Vicarage Road in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north from the end of Vicarage Road, at the entrance to Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The houses in Basford are in the distance, in the foreground is the Diamond Clay Works. ...
The view over Stoke-on-Trent from Bath Street
The camera is looking eastwards over Stoke from the corner of Boon Avenue and Bath Street. Bath Street leads down to the old Stoke Library building on London Road. In the distance is the spoil tip and ...
The Wedgwood Institute, Queen Street, Burslem
This photograph shows the corner of the Wedgwood Institute on Queen Street and Clayhanger Street in Burslem. The institute is built on the site of the Brick House Works operated by Wedgwood from 1763 ...
Thimbles, Struts Etc. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing ware mounted on thimbles and struts, items used in the process of firing ceramics.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake ...
Thimbles, Struts Etc. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing ware mounted on thimbles and struts, items used in the process of firing ceramics.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake ...
Thimbles, Struts. Photographed by William Blake c. 1900-1940
Lantern slide showing ware mounted on thimbles and struts, items used in the process of firing ceramics.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake ...
Three block moulds
White Salt-glazed Stoneware Height of tallest mould 10.5 cm These three block moulds were made for the production of jelly moulds.
Three bottle ovens at Acme Marls, Burslem
Seen from Cross Hill, the three buildings are all that remain of the Acme Marls site in Burslem. Built between 1937 and 1947, they are free standing circular hovels surrounding downdraught ovens. They ...