Middleport Park bowling green, Stoke-on-Trent
Midleport Park dates from around 1908 when the park was laid out in the grounds of the former rectory of St John's Church. It lies alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal, between the potworks in Middleport ...
Millrise Road, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
A view east along Millrise Road past Milton Recreation and Bowling Club (on the right). Millrise Road is in the "up end" of the village and was called Market Street until the 1950s. Most of the houses ...
Milton Recreation and Bowling Club, Stoke-on-Trent
The crown bowling green at Milton Recreation and Bowling Club on Millrise Road. The building to the left is as it was, but the bungalow, garage and conservatory like buildings have been replaced.
Miniature Railway, Trentham. Photographed by William Blake.
Passengers on board the miniature railway at Trentham Park.
The Trentham estate was home and pleasure gardens to the Dukes of Sutherland from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The family ...
Minton Memorial Building, London Road, Stoke
This plan is of the Minton Memorial Building which was formerly a school of art. It was built in 1835 and lies next to the former swimming baths (now a library). The building has Grade II listed status.
Diagrams ...
Mitchell Memorial Theatre, Broad Street, Hanley
Erected in tribute to the designer of the Spitfire, the Mitchell Memorial Theatre and Youth Centre stands at the north end of Broad Street in Hanley. The foundation stone was laid in 1955 and the theatre ...
Mosque in Tiberias. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of the Mosque at Tiberias in what is now known as Israel. This is one of series of images taken during a tour of the area.
Mrs Walter and Jeannie at Stanley
Portrait of two women named Mrs Walter and Jeannie sitting in front of buildings and a chimney stack at Stanley, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. They are dressed formally, as if on a special day ...
Municipal tennis courts in Penkhull
The West End recreation ground tennis courts were at the bottom of Bakewell Street, off Trent Valley Road, in Penkhull. Bakewell Street was previously known as Turner Street. The site which had three ...
New Year Greeting Card with Photographs by William Blake and Verse/Poetry by Designer Wm. Morris. Photography and Design by William Blake.
New Year's greeting card with photographs by William Blake and Verse/Poetry by Wm. Morris the ninteenth century designer, poet and socialist.
Along with other images in the collection, the use of this ...
New Year's Greetings Card. Photography and Design by William Blake.
New Year's Greetings Card with an industrial landscape taken in the Potteries.
Blake produced many greetings cards, which were sold in his shop at Stafford Street, Longton. The street was renamed The ...
Newcastle under Lyme Canal at Copeland Street, Stoke-upon-Trent
A view along the Newcastle under Lyme Canal where it leaves the Trent & Mersey Canal in Stoke on Trent. The photograph is taken from the bridge at the junction with the Trent & Mersey: the bridge in the ...
Northwood Football Team, Hanley
Northwood Church of England School reserve football team, 1946.
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 ...
Official opening of the Spitfire display, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The "greenhouse" on Bethesda Street housed a Mk XVI Spitfire RW 388. Designed by Butt Lane born engineer, R J Mitchell, the Spitfire was built in 1945 and served with the RAF.
This photograph was taken ...
Old Art School, London Road, Stoke-on-Trent
In the foreground is the Herbert Minton building, formerly Stoke School of Science and Art, later just School of Art. The building dates from around 1853 and was erected as a monument to the potter Herbert ...
P.E. Centre, Newcastle Street, Burslem
This building stands on Newcastle Street which was formerly known as Castle Street. It has two storeys plus a hall, cellar and armoury. There is a single storey structure attached to the rear of the building ...