Colouring Doll's Heads in the Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.
Postcard showing paintresses decorating doll's heads in a Stoke-on-Trent pot bank.
On the reverse of the post card it is stated that the image was taken in 1880. However, this date is too early. Blake ...
Colouring Doll's Heads In The Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with paintresses decorating doll's heads.
This images appears elsewhere in the collection and was used for a presentation by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder ...
Commerce Street, Longton
Shows John Tams's factory on the left. John Tams Ltd., earthenware manufacturers at the Crown Pottery, Longton. Founded in 1874, the company went into receivership in 2000, but continued as Tams Group ...
Commerce Street, Longton
Commerce Street in Longton in 1962. The Empire Theatre is in the centre on the corner of Chancery Lane with, on this side, the Commerce Works of Herbert Aynsley & Co. Next door to Aynsley's is John Tam's ...
Commercial Street, Burslem
Looking south from the end of Bournes Bank up Commercial Street. The road off top the right is Card Street (formerly Wood Street) and the Pitt Street corner is in the bottom left hand corner.
In the ...
Connaught Street, Tunstall
The corner of Connaught Street (originally named Albert Street) and Tunstall High Street (on the right).
The Glass & Pottery Company' main premises were just on the corner, at 23 High Street. They ...
Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Caldon Canal and Consall Mill, Consall Valley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
Winter scene including the Caldon Canal at Consall Mill, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Conway Pottery, Park Lane, Fenton
The Conway Pottery was established in 1930 and produced earthenware, especially white cups.
Cookshill Mill, Caverswall
A view of the River Blithe and Cookshill Mill at Caverswall. The fields at the rear of the mill were known as 'The Honesty Fields' as they were full of the the plant Lunaria Annua. The chimneys of the ...
Copeland & Sons Spode Works, Kingsway, Stoke-on-Trent
A view from Kingsway in Stoke towards the Spode Works of W T Copeland & Sons. The photograph is taken from in front of Kings Hall and the brick surround to the New Cenotaph is just visible in the bottom ...
Copeland Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Copeland Street was a hive of activity in 1928. There were many businesses on this road, including Keelings timber merchants and Samuel Allsopp & Sons Brewery. The chimney to the right of the picture ...
Cowlishaw & Walker Mining Engineering Company, Brown Lees Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the rear of the Cowlishaw & Walker Mining Engineering company's works in Brown Lees Road. Previously the works were part of Robert Heath & Low Moor Biddulph Iron & Steel Co. The site ...
Crate Maker. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing a crate maker at work.
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 ...
Crate Makers Yard. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing a pottery factory yard and a crate maker at work.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” ...
Crown Devon Works, Stoke-on-Trent
This is part of the original 1870s buildings of the Crown Devon Pottery on Sutherland Street off Whieldon Road. Originally known as the Railway works because it lay between the main railway line and ...
Crown Devon Works, Stoke-on-Trent
The last remaining bottle oven at Simon Fielding's Crown Devon Works on Sutherland Street, off Whieldon Road. Dating from the late 19th Century and finally demolished in 1987, the works produced crown ...
Crown Devon Works, Stoke-on-Trent
A calcining kiln at S Fielding's Crown Devon Works off Whieldon Road. Originally part of the Railway Works, this photograph was taken next to the Stoke to Derby railway line. Calcining kilns were used ...