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Showell's Brewery, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent

Showell's Brewery was erected in Copeland Street in 1864. The Birmingham based company were contractors to HM Forces, produced the celebrated Crosswell's Ale. The brewery was on the north side of Copeland ...

Shraff Tip at Buller's electrical porcelain works, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent

Shraff is the waste from the ceramics industry. Here broken and faulty insulators are mixed with moulds and waste clay to form the shraff tip alongside leek New Road in Milton . Buller's works in Milton ...

Shraff tip on Summerbank Road, Tunstall

This shraff tip was in an old clay pit at the junctrion of Summerbank Road and High Street on the edge of Sandyford. Shraff tips (also known as Shaff Rucks and Shord Rucks) are pottery industry rubbish ...

Shraff Tip, Trubshawe Cross, Stoke-on-Trent.

This shraff tip was near Trubshawe Cross, possibly from the Ellgreave Pottery. A shraff tip or ruck contains waste from the pottery industry: waste moulds, saggars and faulty ware.

Side plate

Grete Marks 1899 - 1990. Plate. 1984.P.701 1937-1940. Over glaze painted earthenware. D : 162 mm (6 ¼ "). Earthenware tea plate. Decorated with semi-matt glaze with an over glaze painted central ...

Side plate

Plate . 1984.P.714 1937-1940. Over glaze painted earthenware. D : 162 mm (6 ¼ "). Earthenware tea plate. Decorated with a matt glaze, and an over glaze painted design of two girls ice-skating. Made ...

Side plates

Grete Marks 1899 - 1990. Plate. 1984.P.738 1936. Over glaze printed & painted earthenware D : 167 mm (6 ½ "). Earthenware tea plate. Decorated with semi-matt glaze with over glaze printed stylised ...

Sideway from Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent

This was the view eastwards from Rookery Lane towards the Staffordshire Collieries and Iron works in Sideway. Alongside are the spoil tips of the coal and iron works. This is now the site of the Bet 365 ...

Simpson's Elder Works, Waterloo Road, Cobridge

Simpson's Elder Pottery on Waterloo Road in Cobridge. The arched entrance has JA and 1848 on the posts and "Solian Ware" painted beneath the company name. The Elder Works frontage was rebuilt by John ...

Simpson's Pottery. Grange Street, Cobridge.

The extensive Elder Works, originally named the Cobridge Pottery until 1900, was between Grange Street and Hawthorne Street in Cobridge. Originally owned by the Alcock family of potters from about 1835, ...

Sir Isaac Newton figure

Pearlware over-glaze painted figure of Sir Isaac Newton. Height 315mm Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English mathematician and scientist. His discoveries include the law of gravity, which he reached ...

Slag quarry near Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent

A slag quarry near Brindley Ford photographed from Bemersley Road. The slag came from the old Robert Heath and Lowmoor furnaces.

Slater's Brickworks and Sanitary Ware, Stoke-on-Trent

Johnson and Slater was formed in 1935 to operate the Berry Hill brickworks and Slater's sanitary ware works (Berry Hill Potteries). The works were to the south and west of the fireclay pit. On the right ...

Slater's Fireclay Pit, Berry Hill, Stoke-on-Trent

The fireclay pit or marl hole was part of Berry Hill brickworks (also known as Slater's fireclay pit) and linked to the nearby Berry Hill collieries. John Slater purchased the colliery in 1914 and the ...

Slip House

Factory interior showing pottery workers in a slip house. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.

Slip House

Lantern slide showing a pottery factory slip house and workers. Photographed by William Blake. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...

Slip House.

Pottery factory interior with a view of a slip house and workers using a filter press. The man in the centre of the picture can be seen rolling prepared clay out of the press. Taken from the Gladstone ...

Slip House.

Pottery factory interior with a view of a slip house. The slip house was the area where the clay was prepared. The man in the picture is inspecting 'blungers' on a mixing machine. This is where ...