Sorting, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a woman sorting china tea cups. Sorting is a quality check on the ware. The woman is checking for any marks left on the ware from the firing process. She knocks the marks ...
Sponging. Miss Maud Hancock.
Pottery factory interior depicting a female worker in the process of sponging ware.
The photograph was taken at Booth's pottery factory in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
The worker in the picture is ...
Spraying Glaze.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman aerographing glaze onto a ewer.
She is using a pneumatic airbrush.
Aerography was the mechanical spraying of glaze onto pots.
It also helped enormously ...
Stacking Saggars in a Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view of workers stacking saggars in a kiln.
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and smoke during bottle ...
Sticking Up.
Pottery factory interior showing a worker in the process of 'sticking up'.
He is using slip (liquid clay) to join separately made pieces together.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Strawing china for packing
A pottery worker "Strawing" China as part of the packing process. Photographed by William Blake.
Taking a Trial at the last firing., Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a bullers ring being withdrawn from the trial hole in the clammins of the oven. The clammins was a temporary seal in the oven through which holes could be made to acces ...
Taking a trial, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing bullers’ rings being withdrawn from the trial hole in the clammins of the oven. The clammins was a temporary seal in the oven through which holes could be made to acces ...
Teapot Making Team.
Group photograph of a teapot making team at Parrott's pottery factory, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections ...
The clammins knocked down, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of an oven after the firing has taken place. This view shows the temporary seal, or ‘clammins’ knocked down and the saggars are still stacked inside. Taken at Hudson ...
The courtyard of Steventon & Sons Pottery, Burslem
John Steventon produced earthenware at the Royal Pottery, on Steventon Place, off Market Place in Burslem from 1923. The company goes back to the 1890s and the site was a pottery in the 1800s. This ...
The Foaming Quart, Greenhead Street, Burslem
The foaming Quart public house stood at the junction of Greenhead Street (straight ahead) and Overhouse Street (to the left) in Burslem. The public house appears on maps in the mid 19th century and was ...
The Potter's Printer at Work.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a potter's printer and his female assistant at work.
They are printing transfers using a 'press print' and an engraved copper plate.
Ink from the engraving ...
The Potter's Wheel, Wellington Works, Longton
Lantern slide showing a thrower and assistant working at a potter’s wheel, with a third worker manually turning the wheel at J.H. Cope’s Wellington Works on the corner of Commerce Street and Stafford ...
The Potter's Wheel. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with pottery workers at the potter's wheel. taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Potter's Wheel. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with workers at the potter's wheel. Taken at, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Potter's Wheel. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with workers at the potter's wheel. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Potter's Wheel. Photographed by William Blake.
Postcard with an view of two women operating a potter's wheel at a Longton pot bank in Stoke-on-Trent.
On the reverse of the post card it is stated that the image was taken in 1880. However, this date ...