The Foley, Fenton
Photograph taken looking north. Note the roofed over bottle kilns.
The Hall Field Works, Festing Street, Hanley
This is a view east along Festing Street towards Hanley. The Hall Field Works is the building to the right, and was built in 1882 by Whittaker & Co. and produced earthenware. It later became part of Richards ...
The Lost Piece figure
Pearlware figure decorated with coloured glazes and gilding. Height 220mm. 'The Lost Piece' is a New Testament parable in Luke, Chapter 15. The parable tells of a woman who rejoices on finding a lost ...
The Mount School, Penkhull
The Mount was built by Josiah Spode II around 1803-04. At this time Josiah Spode was the most successful china manufacturer in the area and he bought 17 acres of farmland between Penkhull and Hartshill ...
The New Market Works, Longton
The quadrangle, looking towards the Bull's Head Inn.
The New Market Works, Longton
The New Market Works, Longton
Photograph taken from the Bull's Head Inn, looking North-West along St. Martin's Lane. St John's Church is in the distance.
The New Market Works stood between St. Martin's Lane and Chancery lane. ...
The New Market Works, Longton
Photograph taken from waste ground looking across Chancery Lane.
The Old Grenville Pottery, Tunstall
Looking south towards the old Grenville Pottery from the end of Roylance Street in Tunstall. Since the 1960s, the pottery has been demolished and Roylance Street much shortened. Going off to the left ...
The Royal Hotel, Westport Road, Burslem.
The Royal Hotel stood at 20 Liverpool Road (renamed Westport Road), next door to the Ryal or Hill Pottery. The top of a bottle oven is just peeking over the roof of the hotel. Parker's Ales supplied beer ...
The site of Ashworth's and Clementson's potteries, Hanley
The tall chimney on the left belonged to George Ashworth's Broad Street Works. On the right are the remains of a chimney belonging to Clementson's flint mill. The bottle ovens in between are part of ...
The Vicar and Moses figure
Earthenware figure decorated with coloured glazes. Height 245mm This figure is a satire on the complacency of the 18th century established church. The figure is impressed on the base 'Ra. Wood Burslem'....
The view east over Buller's Electrical Porcelain works, Norton Lane, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east from Norton Lane with the higher ground of Baddeley Green, Stanley and Bagnall in the distance. Leek New Road (A53) runs through the centre of the photograph.
In the foreground is Buller's ...
The view over Stoke-on-Trent from Bath Street
The camera is looking eastwards over Stoke from the corner of Boon Avenue and Bath Street. Bath Street leads down to the old Stoke Library building on London Road. In the distance is the spoil tip and ...
Three block moulds
White Salt-glazed Stoneware Height of tallest mould 10.5 cm These three block moulds were made for the production of jelly moulds.
Three bottle ovens at Acme Marls, Burslem
Seen from Cross Hill, the three buildings are all that remain of the Acme Marls site in Burslem. Built between 1937 and 1947, they are free standing circular hovels surrounding downdraught ovens. They ...
Three bottle ovens, Cobridge
The three bottle ovens belonged to an earthenware manufactory behind Purbeck Street (Formerly George Street) in Cobridge. Leek New Road is off to the left of the photograph. Bert Bentley, the photographer, ...
Title
Glazed Stoneware.
H. 4.5 x W. 15.0 cm.
Stoneware dish with a scolloped edge and three feet.
Press-moulded at the Leach Pottery, St. Ives, Cornwall. Blue/grey glaze, incised decoration.