Sneyd Brickworks fireclay pit near Bycars Lane, Burslem
Looking south east over the fireclay pit, and what is today Bycars Lane, towards Vale Park. The area in the foreground has been infilled and is now pitches and sports facilities.
The fireclay dug out ...
Sneyd Colliery from Nile Street, Burslem
The camera is looking east from the top of Adelaide Street at the junction with Nile Street towards Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. The colliery eventually had four shafts mining house and steam coal and ...
Sneyd Colliery ropeway from Adkins Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north east from the end of Adkins Street towards the pulley wheel and pylon on the end of the aerial ropeway or cableway which connected Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks with its spoil tip. The colliery ...
Spoutfield Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photographs shows some of the intermittent coal fired brick and tile ovens at John Caddick & Sons Spoutfields Tilery. The tilery was on the corner of Brick Kiln Lane and Shelton New Road in Cliff ...
Spoutfield Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
Coal fired beehive ovens with their chimneys at John Caddick & Sons Spoutfield Tilery at the corner of Brick Kiln Lane and Shelton New Road. Just below the iron bands around the oven can be seen the ...
Stephen's Brickwoks, Fenton
Stephens Brothers works was in School Lane, an extension of Brocksford Street, in Fenton. Stephens was at one time part of the Potteries Brick Company, a marketing company for seventeen Stoke on Trent ...
Stoke to Newcastle railway line, Stoke-on-Trent
The view west along the old North Staffordshire Railway, Stoke, Silverdale and Madeley branch line near Shelton New Road and Brick Kiln Lane, 1½ miles (2.4 km) east of Newcastle. The line opened ...
The bottom of Basford Bank, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking northwards from Etruria Road close to the bottom of Basford Bank towards Wolstanton Colliery. On the skyline are the houses in May Bank, built from the 1920s onwards.
The foreground is a jumble ...
The view towards Trentham from Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the Trent Vale Brick and Tile Works on Rookery Lane looking southwards towards the higher ground of Trentham Gardens. In the centre foreground is the estate of prefabricated ...
Trent Vale Brick & Tile Company, Stone Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The western end of the buildings that made up the Trent Vale Brick and Tile Company. The photograph was taken from close to Summerville Road on the A34. Behind the wall is now the Michelin Training Centre. ...
Trent Vale Brick and Tile Company marl hole, Stoke-on-Trent
The abandoned pit once belonging to the Trent Vale Brick and Tile Company was just off Rookery Lane. The camera is looking east over the Trent Valley, with Primrose Hill, Hanford to the right and Longton ...
Visit by pottery students to Berryhill brickworks
This picture was taken on Saturday 27th March 1926 during a visit by pottery students to the brickworks department of Berryhill Collieries Ltd.
As you can see from the photograph many of the students ...
Wheatly & Son brickworks, Springfields, Stoke-on-Trent
Wheatly's Brick & Tile Works (Springfield Tileries) fronted onto Newcastle Road (A34). This photograph shows the rear of the works, taken from Wheatly Avenue, with marl hole in the foreground and the ...
Wheatly's Springfield Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
Wheatly's Brick and Tile company works was established before the 1820s. The Springfield tilery main entrance was on Newcastle Road in the Springfield area of Stoke. Closed in 1982 and demolished soon ...
Wheatly's Springfields Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The stockyard and storage sheds at Wheatly's Springfield tileries. The names "Romulus" and Seville" over the shed are different types of roofing tiles. In the background are two downdraught beehive ovens ...
Wheatly's Springfields Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The stockyard, ovens and chimneys at Wheatly's Springfield tilery. In the foreground are a variety of ridge and roof tiles. The painted sign on the gable end on the right hand side advertises "bricks, ...