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Proposed Commercial Canal - Declaration from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views. At this time, the committee were taking on a weighty opponent, ...

Prospect Street, Middleport

The camera is looking northeast from the corner of Prospect Street and Irwell Street (previously West Street) with A J Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery (the Mersey Pottery) on the right. This sprawling ...

Protest of the Journeymen Potters - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

This handwritten poem protests at social extremes of wealth, status and poverty in the Potteries at around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. War War with France had affected the fortunes of the Potteries ...

Prudence figure

Pearlware over-glaze painted figure of Prudence. Height 530mm.

Prys Courant van Engelsche Aardewere - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

Stoke-on-Trent's pottery industry has long been famous all over the world. Even in 1797, price lists were issued in other languages for the benefit of the export trade. Dutch speakers, for example, ...

Purbeck Street, Cobridge

The view along Purbeck Street (previously named George Street) from the corner with Leek New Road. There was a row of 16 terraced houses on the north side, with the brickworks of the Cobridge Brick & ...

Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.

Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.

Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.

Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.

Queen Anne China Works, Greendock Street, Longton

The Queen Anne China Works in Greendock Street in Longton. It started as the Edensor Works in the 1870s, operated by Shore & Coggins and later by Thomas Wild who introduced the Bell China name. The Queen ...

Racecourse Road, Oakhill, Stoke-on-Trent

Racecourse Road is a short road off London Road. At the time of the photograph it lead to the Oakhill Gate entrance to the Michelin Tyre Company factory. Before the Michelin factory was built in 1927 ...

Racing car teapot

Sadler & Sons c. 1899 - Teapot. 1978.P.33. 1930-1939. Over glaze painted & lustre painted earthenware. L : 290 mm. Earthenware teapot. In the form of a racing car - the lid is the cockpit with ...

Raku bowl

Glazed Earthenware. H. 7.8 x W. 10.5 cm. Small earthenware bowl on foot, coil built and raku fired at the Leach Pottery, St. Ives, Cornwall. Cream slip, lead transparent glaze.

Ralph Wedgwood announces advances in Earthenware - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

After "fourteen years Labourious and Expensive Experiment," Ralph Wedgwood proudly announces a breakthrough in the manufacture of earthenware. Pottery manufacturers are invited to inspect the results ...

Ramsden's Colours and Glazes, fenton

C E Ramsden manufactured colour chemicals and potters materials. This is part of their works in Montrose Street, Fenton, now demolished. The company had other premises at the bottom of Duke Street in ...

Rataud's Ceramic Transfers in Meigh Street, Hanley

This is the Alliance Works on Meigh Street, built in 1914 and occupied by Rataud's, a ceramic Transfer producing company. The narrow frontage lead to a large works between Meigh Street and Majolica Street ...

Raymond Street, Shelton

Looking north along Raymond Street in Shelton, with the old Albert Pottery on the left hand side. The houses on the extreme left are on Shirley Road (now demolished) which also goes off to the right. ...

Ready-mix concrete work, Tunstall

J Batholomew & sons ready-mix concrete works off Nash Peake Street in Tunstall. This was the central depot.The local area provided much of the raw material: sand from the Tean area and gravel from Adderley ...

Rear of Copeland's Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent

A view south west from the end of Leason Street, across the site of Copeland's Spode Works on Church Street in Stoke. Immediately beyond the railings is the Fowlea Brook and in the distance, the higher ...