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 ...
Entrance to Shelton Steel & Iron Works, Newport Lane, Middleport
ooking south near the end of Newport Lane at one of the entrances to Shelton Steel Works. The buildings on the right, partly hidden by the Shelton signboard, is Oliver's Mill with its calcining oven. ...
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 ...
Erskine St., Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Erskine Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden areas near ...
Etruria Canal and Industrial Site. Photographed by William Blake.
A view of barges on the Trent & Mersey Canal at an industrial site in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Canal and Industrial Site. Photographed by William Blake.
A view of narrow boats on the Trent & Mersey Canal at an industrial site in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Canal and Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site, including a steam crane and workers.
Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Canal and Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site, including a steam crane. Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Forges. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site.
Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Hall
The view northwards from the Trent & Mersey Canal with Etruria Hall in the centre and Shelton Steel works to the left. Behind the hall are the spoil heaps of Shelton and Racecourse Collieries. This photograph ...
Etruria Industrial Museum, Lower Bedford Street, Etruria.
The Etruscan Mill was built in 1857 alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal. The Mill's purpose was to grind materials for the agricultural and pottery industries, such as cattle bone and flint. Bone meal ...
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 ...
Etruria Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site.
Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Etruria Steel Works. Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial scene taken at Etruria Steel Works in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This view includes the Trent & Mersey Canal, a steam engine and workers tipping molten waste known as slag.
Etruria Vale Mills on the Caldon Canal, Stoke-on-Trent
On the left is Mellor's Minerals flint mill on the Caldon Canal off Etruria Vale Road (to the left). The camera is looking north along the canal with the (now demolished) houses on Bedford Street in the ...
Etruria Vale., Stoke-on-Trent
The giant steel works at Shelton during its heyday. After the war Shelton was at full capacity and employed thousands of men, producing some of the finest steel in the world.
In the foreground can be ...
Extracting coal from the Winghay seam, Silverdale Colliery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The miners in this photograph are using modern cutting machinery to extract coal from the productive Winghay seam at Silverdale Colliery. It was large coal seams like this that made Silverdale one of ...