Greyhound, Manor Court Street, Penkhull
This public house consists of two storeys, a cellar and backyard. It was constructed between 1832 and 1878 with a later one storey extension at the rear. Original outbuildings have been destroyed.
Remembering ...
Beech Caves
Beech caves are man-made caves close to the hamlet of Beech where sandstone was quarried for local use. The 1879 Ordnance Survey map shows the area as an 'Old Quarry', as by then it no longer used. In ...
Longton Y.S.L., Swimming Baths, Longton
A group of children with adults, named in the photograph caption as ‘Longton Y.S.L.’ pictured outside the gates to the Corporation Yard at the rear of Longton Swimming Baths, which is the large building ...
Birchendale, 3 St. John’s Square, Burslem
Birchendale's shop, an ornate three storey building, with a datestone of 1882.
Constructed in red facing flemish bond, with a pitched tiled roof, decorative ridge tiles and two red staged stacks. The ...
Hutchinson Memorial School, Checkley
View of the Hutchinson Memorial CE School, Uttoxeter Road, Checkley. It was built in 1879.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Rectory Farm, Checkley
Rectory Farm stands on Church Lane and contains a panelled room known as the Monks' Room. It is believed to have been used by monks from Croxden Abbey in the years before Checkley had its own priest.
Photographed ...
Sponging, Booth’s Church Bank Works, Tunstall
Pottery factory interior depicting a female worker in the process of sponging ware. The photograph was taken at Booth's pottery factory at Church Bank Works, Bank Street in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
The ...
Factory and Bottle Ovens, Richardson’s Pottery, Tunstall
Pottery factory exterior taken at Richardson's pottery factory, Pinnox Street, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part ...
Backstamping, Royal Albert Pottery, Tunstall
Pottery factory interior showing a female worker in the process of backstamping plates. The backstamp is the pottery maker's mark or logo.
Taken at Alfred Meakin Ltd., Royal Albert Pottery, Parsonage ...
Casting Workshop, Morley Fox Pottery, Fenton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a casting shop and workers. Rows of jugs in their moulds can be seen in the foreground of the picture. Taken at the Morley Fox pottery factory at the Salopian Works, ...
Devon Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory exterior including a bottle oven taken at the Devon Factory, Sutherland Street, Stoke-on-Trent. This potbank belonged to Simon Fielding & Co., 1879 to 1982.
Taken from the Gladstone ...
Phoenix Works, Longton
This photograph was taken from Longton Train Station depicts the Phoenix Works bottle ovens of the original Thomas Forester factory built in 1879 & closed in 1959. The site has had many uses and occupants ...
Factory and Bottle Ovens, John Street, Longton
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens. Taken at the rear of Wildblood Pot Bank, John Street, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
John Street, Longton
This image of John Street portrays a bleak picture of working class life in the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Notice the close proximity of the houses to the large pottery ...
John Street, Longton
During the early 1930s Stoke-on-Trent City Council, following guidelines laid down in Parliament, commissioned a housing survey in the city. Slum dwellings were to be cleared and a massive housing programme ...
John Lockett's potbank, Longton
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens at John Lockett's potbank yard, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. John Lockett & Sons were founded at King Street, Longton in 1825. When John Lockett died in 1832 ...
Caroline Street Congregational Chapel, Longton
Interior view of the Congregational Church, Caroline Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. It was built in 1905 and the architect was Edward Forshaw of Uttoxeter. It replaced an earlier church built in 1819....
Caroline Street Congregational Church, Longton
Interior view of the Congregational Church, Caroline Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. It was built in 1905 and the architect was Edward Forshaw of Uttoxeter. It replaced an earlier church built in 1819.
Photographer: ...