W J Dolby, Potters' Millers, Lytton Street, Stoke-on-Trent
W J Dolby were potter's millers and merchants who supplied prepared clay, flint and bones to pottery works. The mill was located alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal (to import raw materials) on Lytton ...
W.Podmore & Sons, Potters' Millers, Shelton
W Podmore & Sons were a family firm of potters' millers with several mills around North Staffordshire. This is their Caledonian Mill on Caledonia Road in Shelton, just off Cemetery Road. The buildings ...
W.S. Leach, Wife & Dog at Knutton
Outdoor portrait of a man, a woman and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier taken at Knutton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Chimney stacks, railway signals and a church can be seen in the background.
The ...
Wade Heath & Co, Westport Road, Burslem
John and Richard Riley constructed this building as their new potworks, the Hill Works, in 1814. It is now known as Wade Heath & Co. Ltd. This photograph shows a detail of the building. Since being built ...
Wade Heath's Hill Works Pottery, Burslem
The photograph was taken looking up Westport Road from the near the corner of Back Sytch Road (now no longer). On the left is the sign for Hill Top Council Junior and Infants' School which were on the ...
Wade's Pottery, Greenhead Street, Burslem
George Wade & Sons factory on Greenhead Street in Burslem. The Manchester Pottery and the neighbouring Flaxman Tile Works were known as the Greenhead Works, the centre of the Wade pottery empire. The ...
Wagstaff & Brunt's Pottery, Longton
Wagstaff & Brunt's Richmond Pottery on the corner of March Road and King Street in Longton. March Road was known as Richmond Road until the 1950s. A 1908 advert for the company claimed that this was ...
Warehouse. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide image taken in a pottery manufacturing warehouse with pottery workers packing ware.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Warehouse. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide image taken in a pottery manufacturing warehouse with pottery workers packing ware.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Warehouse. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of a pottery factory warehouse housing lots of ware including mugs plates and jugs.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Washington Pottery Works, Waterloo Road, Burslem
Looking along Waterloo Road towards Burslem with the old Washington Pottery with the clock tower on the left. The pottery site and the buildings to the right have all been demolished, although the white ...
Washington Pottery, College Road, Shelton
Looking north along College Road (formerly Victoria Road) with the Washington Pottery in the centre. Off to the left is Shelton Farm, complete with sheep. On the extreme right hand edge is the Drill Hall, ...
Waterloo Colour Works, Cobridge
Emery's Waterloo Colour works was on the corner of Grange Street and Waterloo Road in Cobridge. Robert Emery established a colour manufactory in Grange Street, Cobridge in 1840. Established in 1845, ...
Wedgwood at Etruria. Aerial view.
Josiah Wedgwood’s factory at Etruria was officially opened in 1769, a year after it was completed. Situated on a large site on the outskirts of Hanley it had the advantage of being on the banks ...
Wedgwood factory, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph of Wedgwood's original factory next to the Trent and Mersey canal in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent was taken in 1929. The factory was a site of real innovation and invention but was disused ...
Wedgwood's Etruria Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
Josiah Wedgwood's Etruria Works opened in 1769. Importantly, the factory was built on land that Wedgwood knew lay on the route of the proposed Trent & Mersey Canal which was opened in 1777. The factory ...
Wedgwood's Etruria works, Stoke-on-Trent
Etruria Works was opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769, replacing the Ivy House and Brick House Works in Burslem. Built on the route of the Trent & Mersey Canal, just where it would be crossed by the Newcastle ...
Wenger's Colour Works, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Wenger's Ceramic Colour and Chemical Works on Etruria Road, at the bottom of Basford Bank. The works lay between Garner Street and the railway station at Etruria, the signals can be seen to the left ...