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Norton Colliery from Harrison Road, Norton-in-the-Moors
Norton Colliery is in the centre foreground just beyond the houses. The spoil tip on the horizon belongs to Sneyd Colliery and the flatter, lower ground in between is the valley of the Bank Haye Brook. ...
Norton Colliery spoil tip from Burslem Golf Course
The view south east from Burslem Golf Course over the Ford Green Valley towards Norton Colliery spoil tip. Running through the middle of the photograph is the embankment of the Biddulph Vally branch line, ...
Norton cricket ground and Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking north east from bottom of Harold Street, Smallthorne before the housing estates were developed. They now occupy the open space in the foreground.
The spoil tip belonged ...
Notice from Ralph Wedgwood - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Glazes and Ovens
Printed notice from inventor Ralph Wedgwood.
He claims to have devised a way of recycling waste pottery to make glaze.
The glaze is touted as being of superior quality to lead ...
Notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook - "Our cause is gained!"
A big decision
In 1812, the people of the Potteries were struggling for their livelihoods. One government decision could make all the difference, but would it all come too late?
Ruin
Years of ...
Notice on weights and measures - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During the early 1800s, people in the Potteries grew very wary about the use by dishonest traders of false weights and measures on market day.
Rip-off
It was the big 'rip-off' scandal of its time, ...
Nursery Lane, Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north west along Nursery Lane from close to the Cocks Lane corner. Beyond is Norton Green and the waste tip in the distance belonged to Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (over 2 miles away).
Oakhill and the Michelin Tyre Company factory, from Penkhull
This was the view eastwards over the Michelin Tyre factory from the higher ground along Hunter's Way in Penkhull. The Michelin factory dominates the middle of the photograph. On the left of the site is ...
Office Scene.
Pottery factory offices and office workers.
Taken at The Co-op Wholesale Society Factory, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is ...
Old Betty Plant's sweet factory, Hanley
Old Betty Plant's was a confectionery business on the corner of Morley Street and Statham Street in Hanley. The "Old Betty" name came from the wife of the founder, Albert Plant. The factory in Statham ...
Old cottages, Meir Road, Normacot
Graham's Cottages undergoing demolition on Meir Road. Photograph taken at the end of Star and Garter Road.
Old Fire Station, Burslem
The old fire station was in Fountain Place at the top of Westport Road just along from the entrance to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Pottery. At the time of the photograph it was occupied by Edwin Longmore's ...
Old Fire Station, Hanley
In the foreground is Hanley Fire Station and behind the premises of Webberley Ltd, printers, stationers and booksellers. The camera is looking down Parliament Square towards Percy Street.
The Fire ...
Old Foley Pottery Works, Fenton
Pottery factory exterior and rail tracks. Taken at the Old Foley Pottery Works, King Street, Fenton, Longton.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is ...
Old Hanford
This is a photograph of a postcard showing Hanford village with four ladies in a dog cart. The sign outside the shop reads "(Agent for) Perth Dye Works" and is possibly Mrs Finney's Drapers shop.
Old Longton Cottage Hospital
Photograph taken during demolition. The original Longton Cottage Hospital was built in 1868 on Mount Pleasant (now Lawley Street). In 1879 it moved to a new building on the north side of the same street. ...
Old Longton Cottage Hospital, Normacot
The hospital in the process of being demolished. The original Longton Cottage Hospital was built in 1868 on Mount Pleasant (now Lawley Street). In 1879 it moved to a new building on the north side of ...
Old Mossfield Colliery tramway wharf, Goldenhill Road, Fenton
This photograph was taken looking east from halfway up Goldenhill Road opposite the entrance to Foley Park. In the distance is the spoil tip of Mossfield Colliery. The tramway lead off to the right of ...