A view from Hartshill Park, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north east from the end of Vicarage Road at the entrance to Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The middle of the photograph is dominated by the gas holders and buildings of Etruria ...
A view north from Hartshill Park, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the top of Vicarage Road, at the entrance to Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The camera is looking northwards. Inn the foreground is the Diamond Clay Works, manufacturing ...
Bedford Street Lock and Mellor's Millers on the Caldon Canal, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Bedford Street Locks (locks 1 and 2) looking north along the Caldon Canal towards Mellor' Mills wharf and works. The canal bends sharply round to the left towards the ...
Biddulph Valley Branch mineral railway at Milton Road, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north along the ex North Staffordshire Railway's Biddulph Valley Branch near Milton Road. Norton Colliery waste tip and the Ford Green Iron Works are the centre behind the line house. Much of the ...
Blast furnace demolition at Shelton Bar steelworks
This picture shows the blast furnaces at Shelton Bar Steelworks in Stoke-on-Trent being demolished. Steel production at Shelton Bar ended in 1978 but the processing of existing steel continued in the ...
Bolton's copper works
Bolton's Copper Works at Froghall, around 1950.
The works stands next to the Churnet Valley Railway. Although freight is now carried by road, the line now operates as a heritage railway, museum and ...
Bolton's copper works
Thomas Bolton's copper works provided much employment in the village of Froghall.
The railway was essential in order to transport wound copper wire out of the valley and to destinations all over Britain ...
Bolton's copper works
Sidings at Bolton's Copper Works, Froghall, during the mid-1960s.
Drums of copper wire stand on the empty tracks. Wire manufactured both here and at Oakamoor would form the first Trans-Atlantic telegraph ...
Brookfield Foundry, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows what was the California Engineering Works of the locomotive builders, Kerr Stuart & Co. Railway locomotives had been produced on this site since 1892. Kerr Stuart closed down in ...
Castlefield Street, Shelton
Looking along Castlefield Street, off Shelton New Road, in Cliffe Vale. Castlefield Street was formerly called Edward Street. The photograph was taken about halfway down, just beyond Lomas Street. ...
Cobridge Station and Moorcroft's Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent
A photograph looking northwards along Sandbach Road in Cobridge taken from the junction with Leek New Road. Moorcoft's pottery factory is in the centre, the home of the company since 1913.
On the ...
Entrance to Shelton Steel & Iron Works, Newport Lane, Middleport
ooking south near the end of Newport Lane at one of the entrances to Shelton Steel Works. The buildings on the right, partly hidden by the Shelton signboard, is Oliver's Mill with its calcining oven. ...
Etruria Canal and Industrial Site. Photographed by William Blake.
A view of barges on the Trent & Mersey Canal at an industrial site in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Canal and Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site, including a steam crane and workers.
Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Canal and Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site, including a steam crane. Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Forges. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site.
Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site. Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site.
Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.