Fixing Spout and Teapot.
Pottery factory interior showing a man fixing a spout to a teapot.
The teapot was assembled or stuck up when the clay had dried to a leather-hard state, not completely dry.
The pieces were joined ...
Flatware Makers at Gladstone China.
Pottery factory interior with a group of flatware makers posing for a photograph.
The photograph was taken in the flatware making shop at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, in ...
Full Oven
Lantern slide looking inside a full pottery manufacturing oven. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Furnival Pottery. Circa 1920
Women select ware and place it into order in racks. This is probably hotel ware made for general dinner table use.
This would be the final quality control stage and inferior ware would be set aside.
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Gilding, Chapman's Pottery, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a female pottery worker gilding or banding at a bench. Two onlookers pose for the picture. Probably taken at Chapman's pottery factory, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Gilding
Gilding ...
Gilding.
Pottery factory interior with a view of women working in a gilding workshop.
Gilder's shells can be seen on the work benches.
Gilding.
Gilding is a type of decoration involving the skillful application ...
Gladstone China Warehouse.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a china warehouse and warehouse workers.
Taken at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
The factory ceased production in the early 1970s ...
Gladstone Pottery Sales Office, Longton.
The sales office at Gladstone Pottery, Longton in September 1932. Three men pause from work for the camera. The large map on the wall helps plot transport for the ware, and the calendar gives the month ...
Glost Placing.
Pottery worker Fredrick Jones who worked at Copelands in Stoke, placing glost ware. He is placing 7" plates in a saggar in preparation for firing the dipped ware.
This firing will create a hard ...
Glost Workers.
Group portrait of glost workers. Probably taken at Chapman's pottery factory, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
The picture was taken in the glost warehouse.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Grinding Marks off glost ware in a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior depicting a woman grinding marks off glost ware. Glost ware is ware which been dipped and fired to give it a hard glazed coating. There would be marks left on the glazed surface ...
Group Portrait of Pottery Workers.
Group portrait of 29 pottery workers and various items of prestige ware.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent ...
Hand Casting.
Pottery factory interior showing a worker hand casting.
The caster is pouring liquid clay, known as slip, into a plaster mould.
Unfired ware sits on the surrounding shelves.
The caster's name ...
Hand Painting.
Pottery factory interior showing a paintress at work inside a decorating shop.
She is hand painting a jug.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is ...
Hand Painting.
Pottery factory interior showing a man hand painting a vase in a decorating workshop.
Men usually painted the most prestigious ware a factory produced.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Hand-engraving a copper plate, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior showing a man hand-engraving a design on a flat copper plate. The copper plate would then be inked and used to make a paper transfer of the design. The design would then be applied ...
Handle-maker, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a woman handle-making. She is taking slip cast handles out of multiple moulds and trimming them ready to be applied by a handler.
Taken at Sutherland China, ...
Handlers. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing two handlers at work putting the handles on cups.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” ...