Cloud End from Gunn Hill. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of Cloud End, Nr. Congleton, Cheshire. The photograph was taken from Gunn Hill, Staffordshire.
Parts of the area in view are within the Peak District National Park.
Cloud End, near Rushton Spencer
Landscape with a view of Cloud End, near Rushton Spencer. The Cloud overlooks Congleton and markes the border between Cheshire and Staffordshire. The large railway viaduct that crosses the River Dane ...
Cloud End, near Rushton Spencer
Landscape with a view of Cloud End, near Rushton Spencer. The Cloud overlooks Congleton and markes the border between Cheshire and Staffordshire.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Clough Hall Colliery Anti-Union Notice - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Colliery owners did not take kindly to miners' early attempts to form trades unions.
Market forces
Most believed in an 'iron law of wages,' which dictated that wages would be related to market forces.
This ...
Coal Strike 1912. "Coal Getting." Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of people picking surface coal from a steep quarry edge during the strike of 1912.
Coal Strike, Mar. 1912 "Gleaning coal From Old Pit Banks." Photographed by William Blake.
A picture taken in Stoke-on-Trent during the miner's strike of March 1912.
Men, women and children collect loose coal from the pit banks.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Digging Coal out of Old Pit Mounds". Photographed by William Blake.
"Digging Coal out of Old Pit Mounds". People forage for coal during the strike during March 1912.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Labour Works A Seam On Its Own Behalf." Photographed by William Blake.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Labour Works A Seam On Its Own Behalf." Taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Men Cutting Surface Coal". Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph taken during the national coal strike of 1912. The men are foraging for fuel by cutting surface coal. Taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Royalty - Free Coal Getting". Photographed by William Blake.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Royalty - Free Coal Getting". Taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Coal Tip and Marl Hole, Berry Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
Industrial landscape with a view of a coal tip and marl hole. Photograph taken by Longton photographer, William Blake.
Coal Truck. Photographed by William Blake.
This wagon belonged to and was built by Edward Eastwood of Chesterfield , hence the "E E" on the wagon side and on the axleboxes ("EEC").
Additionally it it is known from records at the National Archives ...
Coal Trucks & Steam Engine. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of coal trucks and a steam engine.
Unknown location.
Coastal scene, by Kathleen Peake
A seascape by Kathleen Peake. She was Longton photographer William Blake's wife.
Unknown location.
Coastal scene, by Rosa Kathleen Blake
Painting of a coastal scene. Painted by Rosa Kathleen Blake ('R.K.B.'), wife of Longton photographer William Blake.
Cobden Street, Dresden. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Cobden Street, Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The church building on the right was the Methodist New Connexion Chapel. The Elim Chapel on the corner of Cobden Street ...
Collection of Bottles. Photographed by William Blake.
A collection of bottles photographed at Hanley Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Collection of Bottles. Photographed by William Blake.
A collection of bottles photographed at Hanley Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.