Firing Pottery. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of the smokey industrial landscape as pottery manufacturers fire their products in kilns and ovens.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...
Fixing Spout and Teapot.
Pottery factory interior showing a man fixing a spout to a teapot.
The teapot was assembled or stuck up when the clay had dried to a leather-hard state, not completely dry.
The pieces were joined ...
Flat-Presser Making Dishes.
Pottery factory interior showing a flat-presser making dishes.
A young mould runner waits on the presser, supplying him with moulds.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Flatware Makers at Gladstone China.
Pottery factory interior with a group of flatware makers posing for a photograph.
The photograph was taken in the flatware making shop at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, in ...
Floor Plan of a Potbank - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This floor plan for a pottery complex may have been drawn up by local manufacturer Enoch Wood - who certainly added notes outlining his intentions.
He noted down plans for a nine-foot perimiter wall, ...
Foley China Works, Fenton
The Foley China Works was on King Street close to the border between Fenton and Longton and dates from 1850. The first operators were Robinson & Co, before the works were taken over by Elijah Brain & ...
Foley China Works, Fenton
Pottery factory exterior taken at the Foley China Works, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Date unknown but the photograph was taken before 1978.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection. ...
Ford's Pottery, Newcastle Street, Burslem
Looking southwest along the upper end of Newcastle Street, just outside Burslem. The buildings on the right were part of Ford's Pottery, which extended up from Blake Street. Ford's were an earthenware, ...
Fountain Street from Glebedale Road, Fenton
Looking from Glebedale Road across City Road into Fountain Street in Fenton. The ovens belong to James Kent, potters millers, on Fountain Street. The three calcining ovens are grade II listed buildings ...
Full Oven
Lantern slide looking inside a full pottery manufacturing oven. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Furlong Mills Co., Ltd. Burslem
Pottery factory exterior including two calcining kilns.
Taken at Furlong Mills Co., Ltd., Furlong Lane, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
Calcining is the process of heating bone or flint to soften it for ...
Furlong Tile Works, Newport Lane, Middleport
The Furlong Tile Works was on the east side of Newport Lane just before the junction with Furlong Lane. Just beyond the works is the White Swan public house which was originally two small houses until ...
Furnival's potworks, Elder Road, Cobridge.
Furnival's pottery was at the southern end of Elder Road, close to the junction with Waterloo Road. This photograph was taken from Waterloo Road. Although the works has been demolished, the two buildings ...
Gallimore & Co, Garfield Works, Longton
The rear of Gallimore & Co's Garfield Pottery in Longton which lay between Uttoxeter Road (originally named High Street) and Barker Street. This photograph is taken from Barker Street. Before Gallimore's ...
Garfield Pottery, Longton
The rear of Gallimore & Co's Garfield Pottery in Barker Street, Longton. Gallimore's produced china and earthenware here from 1947. Although no longer a pottery, the building with the painted "Garfield ...
Garfield Pottery, Longton
The bottle oven built or renovated in 1939 at Gallimore's Garfield Pottery on Barker Street in Longton.
the Garfield work had a number of owners from Albert Jones in 1905, Roper & Meredith from 1913 ...
Garfield Works, Uttoxeter Road, Longton
The Garfield Works stood opposite St James's Church in the centre of Longton. In 1907 the works were occupied by Albert E. Jones, earthenware manufacturers. From 1919 to 1922 it was owned by Roper & ...
Garfield Works. Circa 1968. Photographer: Rex Wailes
Small corner shops, narrow back streets and huge bottle ovens make this a charming city scene. It is easy to reminisce about the good old days when looking at scenes from yesteryear. By the time this ...