Shelley Pottery, King Street, Fenton
The Shelley pottery stood on the north side of King Street close to the junction with Hollings Street. Prior to 1910 the company traded as Foley China. Most of the works have been demolished although ...
Shelton New Road railway bridge and Twyford's factory, Cliff Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
Shelton New Road bridge over the main railway line in Cliff Vale. The bridge was being raised when the line was electrified when the photograph was taken. The camera is looking towards Hanley, with the ...
Shepherd and Shepherdess figure
Earthenware figure group decorated with coloured glazes. Height 240mm.
Shorter & Sons Art Glaze Pottery, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent
Shorter & Sons Art Glaze Pottery was at the north end of Copeland Street near its junction with Liverpool Road. The site of the factory lies beneath the A500 (Queensway) intersection. The necks of two ...
Shorter & Sons Art Glaze Pottery, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent
Shorter & Sons Art Glaze Pottery was at the north end of Copeland Street, close to its junction with Liverpool Road. The Company started as Shorter & Boulton and initially produced Majolica wares. By ...
Shraff Tip at Buller's electrical porcelain works, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
Shraff is the waste from the ceramics industry. Here broken and faulty insulators are mixed with moulds and waste clay to form the shraff tip alongside leek New Road in Milton . Buller's works in Milton ...
Side plate
Plate . 1984.P.714 1937-1940. Over glaze painted earthenware.
D : 162 mm (6 ¼ ").
Earthenware tea plate. Decorated with a matt glaze, and an over glaze painted design of two girls ice-skating. Made ...
Side plate
Grete Marks 1899 - 1990. Plate. 1984.P.701 1937-1940.
Over glaze painted earthenware.
D : 162 mm (6 ¼ ").
Earthenware tea plate. Decorated with semi-matt glaze with an over glaze painted central ...
Side plates
Grete Marks 1899 - 1990. Plate. 1984.P.738 1936.
Over glaze printed & painted earthenware
D : 167 mm (6 ½ ").
Earthenware tea plate. Decorated with semi-matt glaze with over glaze printed stylised ...
Simpson's Elder Works, Waterloo Road, Cobridge
Simpson's Elder Pottery on Waterloo Road in Cobridge. The arched entrance has JA and 1848 on the posts and "Solian Ware" painted beneath the company name. The Elder Works frontage was rebuilt by John ...
Simpson's Pottery. Grange Street, Cobridge.
The extensive Elder Works, originally named the Cobridge Pottery until 1900, was between Grange Street and Hawthorne Street in Cobridge. Originally owned by the Alcock family of potters from about 1835, ...
Sir Isaac Newton figure
Pearlware over-glaze painted figure of Sir Isaac Newton. Height 315mm Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English mathematician and scientist. His discoveries include the law of gravity, which he reached ...
Slippery Lane from Clough Street, Hanley
Slippery Lane ran south from Clough Street to Robson Street and onto Sun Street. This photograph was taken from Clough Street with the Ascot and Vulcan potworks of Alcock, Lindley and Bloore each side ...
Small Dish
Small dish tube lined and painted with Hibiscus pattern. Designed by Walter Moorcroft, this version introduced in 1968. Impressed factory marks. Gift of W Moorcroft Ltd.
Smithy Lane, Longton
Photograph taken from Market Street. The Market Street works were believed to be the oldest potbank in Longton and were founded by the Cyples family in about 1784. Cyples were succeeded by Thomas Barlow ...
Sneyd Colliery tip from Jug Bank, Cobridge
This is the view north east from near The Jug Inn on Sneyd Street in Cobridge. Sneyd Colliery spoil tip is on the right with the winding gear, chimneys and aerial cableway to the left. Just in front of ...
Sneyd Cricket, Football and Sports Club ground, Burslem
The photograph was taken from the open land at the rear of Adkins Street and shows the football pitch to the left and the cricket ground to the right. the camera is looking south west. The church tower ...
Sneyd Pipe Works, Burslem
Beehive kilns at Sneyd pipe works as seen from the Potteries Loop Line, just north of Hot Lane. The works lay to the west of the line, behind the camera would have been Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. ...