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British Anchor Pottery, Longton

The rear of the Anchor Pottery seen from near Longton Police Station, just a little way east of Longton Station. At least one of the two bottle ovens was still in use. The Stoke to Derby railway line ...

British Anchor Pottery, Longton

British Anchor Pottery Co. on Anchor Road from the corner of Bathurst Street (Bath Street until the 1950s) on the left. The camera is looking south along Anchor Road with the railway bridge, carrying ...

British Ceramic Research Labs, Queen's Road, Penkhull

This photograph shows the side of the British Ceramics Research Labs building on Queen's Road in Penkhull. The photograph was taken from Franklin Road. The houses on the extreme left are on Queen's Road. ...

British Pottery Company's Melbourne Works, King Street, Fenton

The camera is looking west along King Street towards Fenton. The Melbourne Works in the foreground, stood at the eastern end of King Street in the Foley district. Beyond are the three works Old Foley ...

Brittain's paper works, Commercial Road, Hanley

This photograph shows the rear of Brittain's Ivy House paper works on Commercial Road in Hanley. It was taken from the Caldon Canal looking north and east with the open land of Bucknall and Abbey Hulton ...

Brookfield Foundry and Kerr Stuart engineering works, Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent

This is a view west from the Whieldon Road area towards the Brookfield Foundry. The main railway line runs in front of the buildings and behind can be seen the floodlight pylons of the original Stoke ...

Brookfield Foundry, Stoke-on-Trent

The photograph shows what was the California Engineering Works of the locomotive builders, Kerr Stuart & Co. Railway locomotives had been produced on this site since 1892. Kerr Stuart closed down in ...

Broom Street, Hanley

Broom Street runs east off Old Town Road in Hanley. On the corner is Safin House, occupied in 1963 by S Finney & Sons, Wholesale Warehousemen. H & E Smith's tile factory still stands, although no longer ...

Brother Potters!

The early 1800s brought hard times for potters in Stoke-on-Trent. Costly wars disrupted trade abroad, while poor harvests caused hunger at home. "One word with you, afore yo gon to do any moore mischif..." Government ...

Brush or Pencil.

Decorating brush or pencil. Square shader. Roughly 16cm in length. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection. This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums. ...

Brush or Pencil.

Decorator's liner brush or pencil. Consisting of a head and quill, and a detachable wooden handle. Used by painters and paintresses to decorate pottery. Roughly 13cm in length. Taken from ...

Brush or Pencil.

Decorating brush or pencil used for the hand-painting of pottery. This brush is called a tracer. Roughly 5cm in length. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection. This object ...

Brush or Pencil.

Decorator's liner brush or pencil. Consisting of a head and quill, and a detachable wooden handle. Used by painters and paintresses to decorate pottery. Roughly 19cm in length. Taken from ...

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, ...

Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall

The courtyard of Edwards' Bucknall Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. On the left is a pile of Cornish stone (or China stone) ready for smashing and grinding by the stone crusher alongside. About 1747 it was ...

Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall

George Edwards' Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. Also known as Bucknall Flint Mill it stands on the old mill stream or race taken off the River Trent near Finney Gardens. Ground bone and flint revolutionised ...

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 ...

Buildings adjacent to Matthew Wardhaugh's Theatre, Longton.

Buildings being demolished in The Strand, Longton. Matthew Wardhaugh (1813-188) was born in Whitechapel, London. He was first employed as a call boy at Drury Lane Theatre, then made a living by reciting ...