Campbell Cottages, Hartshill Road, Hartshill, Stoke
This plan shows one of the Campbell cottages on Hartshill Road. The cottages were built in 1859 by Colin Minton Campbell and are now Grade II listed. This cottage had an interior door into the Hartshill ...
Candlestick
Glazed Earthenware.
H. 18.0 x W. 9.5 cm.
Earthenware Sussex candlestick, thrown and turned, yellow lead transparent glaze.
Caverswall. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Caverswall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Chaplin Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Chaplin Road, 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 ...
Children at Broom Street Nursery School, Hanley.
Children enjoying playtime at Broom Street Nursery. The school was designed of Queen Anne style by architect William Keates. It was built in 1879 to accomodate 750 children and cost £6,953 to construct....
Coal strike at Florence Colliery in Longton
Coal mining strikes occured in North Staffordshire on a number of occasions during the twentieth century. This images shows people scavanging for coal on waste tips during the 1912 coal strike. Coal was ...
Common Chickweed, or Stellaria media
Flowering all year long, this weed pops up at the road-side, in your garden, and all over wastelands.
This one was found growing at Hawkesyard, near Armitage in Staffordshire, by local naturalist Henry ...
Cottage and Family. Photographed by William Blake.
Group portrait of a family outside a cottage. Unknown location and subjects.
Cottage. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene with a view of a lady outside a cottage. Unknown location and subject.
Cow Creamer
With the fashion for taking tea, coffee and chocolate in the mid 18th century came the need for equipment for preparing and serving it.
One of the more fanciful inventions of potters (and silversmiths) ...
Cromer Road Destructor Works, Hanley
The Stoke on Trent City refuse destructor works was on Cromer Road, sandwiched between it and the Caldon Canal in the Northwood area. Household waste was burned in incinerators. Sometimes the destructor ...
Dog Portrait. Photographed by William Blake.
Print containing a dog portrait.
Domestic Servant. Circa 1899
A rare portrait of a domestic servant. It is possible that this photograph was taken by the maid’s employer or immediate family as an exercise in photography.
Driveway at Highcroft, Rough Close
View of the rear driveway. A member of the Barlow family, possibly Sydney Harvey Barlow, standing outside his home, Highcroft, Windmill Hill, Rough Close.
We think the photograph was taken by William ...
Duckett type toilet. Circa 1972
This type of toilet was in general use in working class housing in the Potteries from around 1880.
Fairy flax, or Linum catharticum
This plant, which can reach a height of 25cm, can be found growing on calcareous grassland, and flowers between June and September.
"Calcareous" grasslands are areas where the grass grows on soils ...
Family group photograph. Circa 1905
Family members sit in a back garden for a formal portrait in the Edwardian period. A keen amateur photographer probably took this posed shot with a plate camera.
A middle class family, the photographer ...
Food collection at Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent
The miner's strike of 1984 - 1985 saw many families suffer great hardship as striking workers lost all their pay and benefits. Food collection and distribution points like this one at Weston Coyney were ...