Etruria Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial scene taken at Etruria Steel Works in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This view includes the Trent & Mersey Canal, a steam engine and workers tipping molten waste known as slag.
Etruria Vale., Stoke-on-Trent
The giant steel works at Shelton during its heyday. After the war Shelton was at full capacity and employed thousands of men, producing some of the finest steel in the world.
In the foreground can be ...
Fenton. Staffordshire Coal and Iron Works, Sideway. 1930's.
Foundry Square, Norton Green
The houses on the left are on the southern side of Foundry Square. The photograph is taken from Ball Lane looking south west and behind is the higher ground of Norton le Moors. The iron foundry in Norton ...
Fowlea Brook at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north along the course of the Fowlea Brook in Etruria. Off to the right are the furnaces of Shelton Steel Works and in the haze to the left, the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery. The railway ...
Fowlea Brook, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The view south from the bridge over the Fowlea Brook just north of Longport Station. At this point the Stoke on Trent City boundary runs along the brook: to the right is Newcastle under Lyme. On the ...
Goldendale furnaces and slag heaps, Tunstall
The Goldendale Ironworks was between the Trent & Mersey Canal and Tunstall Cemetery (off to the left) in the Chatterley Valley. The site is now open space and marked with a piece of public art; "Golden ...
Goldendale Iron Works, Stoke-on-Trent.
Ingots of iron stacked up at Goldendale in the mid 1960’s. The works was situated in the Chatterley Valley near Harecastle Hill. Close to the Trent and Mersey canal and the North Staffordshire Railway, ...
Goldendale Ironworks, Stoke-on-Trent
Goldendale Ironworks was situated on the outskirts of Tunstall, just below the cemetery. In the background is Harecastle Hill and Harecastle Farm, where in the days of the canal boats the women or children ...
Goodwin's Engineering works and Foundry, Ivy House Road, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the corner of Leek Road looking north up Ivy House Road. The Goodwin Foundry is the large works on the right. The company has been on this site since being founded in 1883, ...
Hanley Foundry, Robson Street, Hanley
This was the view eastwards along Robson Street (Previously Slippery Street) towards the junction with Broad Street. Thje large building on the left is the Hanley Iron Foundry operated by the Foundry ...
Kemball Pit, Fenton
Stafford Collieries and Iron Works pits in Fenton. On the left is Kemball pit. In the distance, Sutherland and Homer. In between are some of the iron works old furnace buildings. the photograph wqs taken ...
Looking north over Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera was looking north up the Fowlea Brook valley, over Westport Lake. The embankment running across the middle of the photograph carried the Tunstall or Pinnox branch railway line, which left the ...
Looking south from Fenton Manor Station, Fenton
This was the view from the footbridge south of Fenton Manor Station looking towards Fenton. The station was opened in 1889 as part of the North Staffordshire Railway branch lines to Leek and Biddulph. ...
Looking towards Burslem from the Ravensdale area
The camera is looking south east towards Burslem from west of the main railway line at the end of Ravensdale Lane. The water surface of Westport Lake is visible in the left centre with the towers of Talke ...
Making steel ingots. Goldendale Ironworks
This photograph shows molten steel being poured into slab ingots at Goldendale Ironworks and was taken between 1950 and 1960. As you can see from the rising steam men employed at steel works often laboured ...
Milton Aluminium works, Redhills Road, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking along Redhills Road towards the entrance to the Milton works of British Aluminium. British Aluminium established rolling mills at Milton in 1897 and they remained until the works closed in 1965. ...
Molten steel, Goldendale Ironworks, Stoke-on-Trent
This image was taken at Goldendale Ironworks between 1950 and 1960 and shows molten steel being poured.
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