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Old Potter's Wheel.

Postcard captioned 'Old Potter's Wheel'. Containing a pottery factory interior with a view of a girl turning an old hand powered wheel. This action powered a throwing wheel. Taken from the Gladstone ...

Old Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide of a vase decorated in an old style associated with Staffordshire. This is one of the few colour slides in the collection. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a ...

Old Swan Inn, 58 Hartshill Road, Stoke

This large L-shaped, two storey building was constructed between 1848 and 1878. It is built from red brick with decorated stone details and has painted panels under the gables.

Old Town Road and Deep Pit Colliery, Hanley

The view from the end of Old Town road towards Deep Pit Colliery with the winding gear in the centre. The curved building on the right belongs to H & E Smith, tile and fireplace manufacturers. Deep ...

Old Wedgwood Jasper Vase. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide of a Jasper Vase by Wedgwood. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A small folder containing ...

Old Weighbridge, Bucknall New Road, Hanley

The camera is looking along Bucknall New Road with Hillcrest Street off to the left. Bert Bentley thought the building with the columns and pediment was once a weighbridge. In the1960s a Wright's Pie ...

Oldfield's Brick Works, Fenton

The photograph shows the fireclay marl pit at Oldfield's brick works, east of Duke Street in the Lane Delph area of Fenton. At the time of the photograph, the pit was being filled in. There was a ...

Oldfield's Brickworks, Fenton

The brick kilns and their chimneys at Oldfield's brickworks off Duke Street in Fenton. In the foreground is the fireclay pit. The camera is looking eastwards towards Longton with the houses in Holly Bush ...

Oldfield's brickworks, Fenton

Oldfield's fireclay pit off Duke Street in Fenton. The Bassey Mine Ironstone and Peacock Coal seams outcrop in the pit. These rocks are part of the Coal Measures of the North Staffordshire Coalfield. ...

Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks, Fenton

Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks was off Duke Street in Fenton. Originally the brickworks and associated colliery was operated by Balfour & Coin from the 1880s. The colliery closed in the 1890s ...

Open Meeting of the Committee of Manufacturers - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

During the early 1800s, the pottery industry began to experience growing problems with their wares being "pilfered" in transit. This notice outlines the resolutions of a meeting called to discuss the ...

Orgreave Street, Cobridge

The camera is looking along Orgreave Street, from Waterloo Road, towards the Bleak Hill pottery works. Orgreave Street was formerly Bleak Street and at the bottom was the Bleak inn public house. The houses ...

Ormonde Street, Fenton

Ormonde Street (formerley Handley Street) off Duke Street in Fenton. In the background is the pit head gear of Fenton (Glebe) Colliery and to the left, its spoil tip. The building on the right hand side ...

Ovens at New Hall Pottery, Hanley

The courtyard of the New Hall Pottery seen from Hope Street, with the line of enclosed bottle ovens and the bottom of the factory chimney, on the left. The works fronted onto York Street and New Hall ...

Overhouse Works entrance, Wedgwood Street, Burslem

Looking through the gates into the yard of the Overhouse Works on the corner of Wedgwood Street and Overhouse Street in Burslem. The original Overhouse Manufactory goes back to 1787 and Thomas Wedgwood. ...

Owl Jug

This famous owl jug was made in Staffordshire during the late 17th or early 18th century. The decoration was produced using slip or liquid clay which was trailed on using a technique similar to cake ...

Packing in Crates. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide showing a group of pottery workers packing crates. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A ...

Packing Pottery. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide with a view of pottery workers packing pottery. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A ...