Victoria & Trentham Potteries, King Street, Fenton
This was the main entrance off King Street into the Victoria & Trentham Potteries Victoria Works. Pottery had been made here since the 1800s and the works was once operated by the Mason family who developed ...
Victoria Colliery, Black Bull, Stoke-on-Trent
No 2 upcast shaft at Victoria Colliery, also known as Black Bull after the nearby village, opened in 1857 and closed in 1982.
The upcast shaft acted like a chimney being used to draw spent or foul air ...
Victoria House, Stanley
Victoria House was the Victoria Mill manager's house. Victoria Mill was part of Harrison & Son, large scale ceramic colour and glaze manufacturers. The house dates from 1750 with 20thy century alterations. ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The Victoria Mill in Stanley was part of Harrison & Son, reputedly the largest ceramic glaze and colour manufacturers in the world in the 1890s. The glaze ingredients were initially ground into fritt ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The materials yard at Harrison & Son's Victoria Mill in Stanley. The mill ground glazes and colour for the ceramics industry. Although it took "fritt" from the company's Phoenix Works in Hanley, it also ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The Victoria Mill in Stanley was part of Harrison & Son, reputedly the largest ceramic glaze and colour manufacturers in the world in the 1890s. The glaze ingredients were initially ground into fritt ...
Victoria Pottery, Fenton
This photograph is of the old Victoria earthenware works in what was known as Lane Delph, now Fenton. This is the south side of the works, looking from China Street and Meakins Row, on a snowy, overcast ...
Victoria Pottery, King Street, Fenton
This is a photograph of the interior courtyard at the Victoria Pottery just off King Street in Fenton. The works dates back to the early 1800s and had a number of operators before becoming the Victoria ...
Victoria Pottery, King Street, Fenton
Part of the interior courtyard at Victoria Pottery which was just off King Street in Fenton. This is one of the overbridges connecting the many small workshops. All the buildings have been demolished.
Victoria Pottery, King Street, Fenton
The Victoria Pottery dates back to the early 1800s. It had a number of operators, the Victoria Porcelain Company from1949 to 1957 before it became part of Victoria & Trentham Potteries Ltd. This photograph ...
Victoria Street, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north along Victoria Street from near the Hartshill Road corner. Victoria Street links Hartshill Road to Etruria Road and was built around the 1880s. Halfway down it is crossed by Shelton New ...
Victoria Works, Fenton
The west side of the Victoria Works (latterly Victoria & Trentham Pottery) from China Street in Fenton, on a snowy November day in 1962. This area of Fenton was once known as Lane Delph and the Victoria ...
View of Longton
View of Longton looking south-east from the tower of St. James’ Church. In his caption for the North Staffordshire Field Club, Blake emphasised the unhealthy conditions of these streets: “The Ministry ...
View of the Potteries
Lantern slide containing a copy of one of Blake's postcards. The card shows a smoke filled industrial landscape taken in the Potteries with the commentary "O beautiful my country." Photographed by William ...
View of the Potteries from Stoke-on-Trent
A view south east from open ground near the top of Sturgess Street in Stoke-on-Trent. The roof in the centre foreground behind the trees belongs to the main range of Falcon Pottery Works, built 1902-1905. ...
View of the Potteries.
A postcard with a view of Stoke-on-Trent, with the caption 'Fresh air for the Potteries' showing the level of pollution before the Clean Air Act in 1956.
View over Longton from Ashwood area.
A view almost due south from Ashwood towards the centre of Longton with the tower of St James The Less church in the centre of the photograph. Longton town centre lies to the right. Immediately to the ...
Vulcan Works, Clough Street, Hanley
The Vulcan Works was operated by Swinnertons Ltd (a company linked with the neighbouring Alcock, Lindley & Bloore pottery). Between then two works is Slippery Lane.
The Vulcan Works dates from the ...