Entrance to bottle oven, J Steventon & Sons, Burslem
The entrance or "wicket" to a biscuit bottle oven at J Steventon's Royal Pottery in Burslem. The wicket was used to place the ware in the oven. For firing the opening was bricked up and sealed with clay ...
Ephraim Street, Hanley
Ephraim Street runs westwards off Lichfield Street in Hanley. On the right hand side is part of the large Eastwood Sanitary Ware works of George Howson & Sons. These works extended southwards to Clifford ...
Etruria Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking westwards along Etruria Road before the dual carriageway (A53) was built. This is the line of Etruria Old Road. On the right is the front of Wedgwood's Etruria works with the lanthorn ...
Etruria Station, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking south from the down side platform along the down line towards Stoke Station. Etruria Station was opened in 1848, extended with the coming of the Loop Line in the 1870s and finally ...
Factory and Bottle Ovens.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens.
Taken at the rear of Wildblood Pot Bank, John Street, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection. ...
Factory and Bottle Ovens.
Pottery factory exterior.
Taken at Richardson's pottery factory, Pinnox Street, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is ...
Factory and Bottle Ovens.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens.
Taken at Twyford's Cliffe Vale Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Trent and Mersey Canal can be seen in the foreground.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery ...
Factory Skyline.
Pottery factory exterior including the Trent And Mersey Canal.
Taken at Price Brothers' National Teapot Factory, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Fairfield Pottery in Robson Street, Hanley
The Fairfield ceramic works is the large building on the right. The main entrance was on Slippery Lane, which is the road running off to the right. At the time of the photograph it was operated by A G ...
Falcon Pottery Works, Sturgess Street, Stoke
This building plan shows the Falcon Pottery works in Sturgess Street which, like the Goss works, was owned by William Henry Goss. The building are now grade II listed.
The plan shows the front, back ...
Falcon Works.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens and an exterior wooden staircase.
Exterior stairs were a feature of pottery factories. Workshops tended to be separate rooms with separate entrance doors.
There ...
Fenton Manor Station, Fenton
Fenton Manor Station was on the old Biddulph Valley line and Leek branch of North Staffordshire Railway. The station was on Manor Street (then named Albert Street), just off Victoria Road. The line passes ...
Fettling flatware, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a woman fettling saucers and plates. Fettling is the process of removing marks from the ware prior to firing. The fettling of flatware is also known as towing, as a coarse ...
Filter press, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior showing two slip house workers using a filter press in the preparation of clay. The workers are disassembling the press to remove the clay. Taken at Minton's factory in Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken ...
Finished Warehouse, Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior with a view of a warehouse.
The women in the picture are checking ware for quality and wrapping it in preparation for leaving the factory.
The woman on the left is checking ...
Fireman Stoking Calcining Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a fireman stoking a calcining kiln.
Calcining is the process of heating bone or flint to soften it for grinding down into a powder.
Bone and flint powder ...
Firing a Kiln at Minton Hollins.
Pottery factory interior showing a fireman shovelling coal into a kiln firemouth.
Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle ...
Firing a kiln in a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior depicting a man firing a kiln.
Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle oven.
The bottle ...