City Central Library and Art Gallery & Museum, Bethesda Street, Hanley
This photograph is looking over the foundations of the City Central Library and Archives building towards the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. This photograph was taken in 1968, before the museum building ...
City Museum & Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The City Museum & Art Gallery was officially opened by Alderman Horace Barks on the 13th October 1956. Built on the site of the Bell Pottery works, this image shows the area before additions were made ...
Hanley Museum and Art Gallery, Pall Mall, Hanley.
Mark XVI Spitfire at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Photograph of the Spitfire, which has been on permanent display at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery since 1986.
Designed by local engineer Reginald Mitchell in the 1930s, the Spitfire was instrumental ...
Official opening of the Spitfire display, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The "greenhouse" on Bethesda Street housed a Mk XVI Spitfire RW 388. Designed by Butt Lane born engineer, R J Mitchell, the Spitfire was built in 1945 and served with the RAF.
This photograph was taken ...
Pall Mall and the old Central Library buildings, Hanley
The single storey building is the old Mechanic's Institute, opened in 1861. The Institute was a two storey building from 1880 when a third floor was added. The Mechanic's Institute aimed to provide adult ...
Prince Charles, City Museum & art Gallery, Hanley
Prince Charles officially opened the City Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley on June 3rd 1981. Many people came to the museum in hope of getting a glimpse of him. He his pictured here taking a brief moment ...
The Miner's Arms, Packmoor.
Constance Smith behind the bar at The Miner's Arms in Mellor Street, Packmoor, around the late 1950s.
Part of Packmoor medical centre grounds now occupy the space where this pub once stood.
The ...
The Potteries Museum from Crown Street, Hanley
This photograph, taken from Crown Street, shows the rear of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery and, on the left, the buildings at the north end of Broad Street. In the foreground are pre-fab houses ...
The Spitfire, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The temporary "greenhouse" being built to house the Spitfire RW 388 outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Bethesda Street. This aircraft was manufactured in Castle Bromwich in 1945. Mounted ...
The Spitfire, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The temporary display "greenhouse" for the Mk XVI Spitfire under construction in early 1972. This Spitfire RW 388 was designed by R J Mitchell and served with the RAF towards the end of the Second World ...