Prince Charles, City Museum & art Gallery, Hanley
Prince Charles officially opened the City Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley on June 3rd 1981. Many people came to the museum in hope of getting a glimpse of him. He his pictured here taking a brief moment ...
Protest of the Journeymen Potters - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This handwritten poem protests at social extremes of wealth, status and poverty in the Potteries at around the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
War
War with France had affected the fortunes of the Potteries ...
Public Baths, Moorland Road, Burslem
This plan is of the public swimming pool in Moorland Road, Burslem. In the late Victorian period baths were seen as an important move towards improved public health and many were built across Stoke-on-Trent. ...
Public Baths, Moorland Road, Burslem
This is an overall plan of the public baths on Moorland Road in Burslem. It shows the position of the various pools and the different entrances for first class men, second class men and ladies. Rooms ...
Public Library, Baker Street / Glebedale Road, Fenton
This building was constructed between 1900 and 1907 and stands on the corner of Baker Street and Glebedale Street (which was previously known as Station Road). The library consists of two adjoining blocks ...
Pump Street, Stoke upon Trent
This is a view south east from near the top of Pump Street at Honeywall. Epworth Street is at the bottom. The side of the large building at the bottom of Pump Street is the 2000 seat Essoldo Cinema, previously ...
Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.
Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.
Queen's Cinema Palace, Jupiter Street. Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent
This cinema was on the north side of Jupiter Street (formerly King Street South) near the corner of Mars Street, just off Ford Green Road. Around the time this photograph was taken, the Palace became ...
Queen's Theatre, Wedgwood Place, Burslem
The Queen's Theatre in Burslem was constructed between 1900 and 1924. It is a three storey building, four rooms wide by eight rooms deep. The front of the roof is obscured by a large decorative stone ...
Racecourse Road, Oakhill, Stoke-on-Trent
Racecourse Road is a short road off London Road. At the time of the photograph it lead to the Oakhill Gate entrance to the Michelin Tyre Company factory. Before the Michelin factory was built in 1927 ...
Religious Painting. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of a religious painting.
Religious Painting. Unknown. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of a religious painting. Unknown.
Rhos-on Sea. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph showing Rhos-on Sea pier at Rhos point. Originally this pier was at Douglas, Isle of Man before being dismantled and rebuilt at Rhos-on-Sea. This photograph possibly taken from Colwyn Bay Pier. ...
Ridgway Potteries Ltd, Waterloo Road, Cobridge
This is the Globe Pottery operated by Ridgway Potteries Ltd, part of the Lawley group of companies. It was on the west side of Waterloo Road, just north of the Cobridge Road and Waterloo Road junction. ...
Roller Skating Rink, Town Road, Hanley
The Ideal Roller Skating Rink and Ideal dance Hall was on town road in Hanley. The building started life as a Congregational Tabernacle dating from the 1850s. It was superseded by a "new" Tabernacle ...
Roman Staffordshire Ware. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing a Roman cup made in Staffordshire.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small ...
Roman Staffordshire Ware. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph showing a Roman cup made in Staffordshire.
This photograph appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder ...