Connaught Street, Tunstall
The corner of Connaught Street (originally named Albert Street) and Tunstall High Street (on the right).
The Glass & Pottery Company' main premises were just on the corner, at 23 High Street. They ...
Co-operative Milk Service Van.
Very little is known about this photograph. The crushed vehicle has writing above the windscreen which reads, Co-operative Milk Service.
If you can provide any further information about this photograph ...
Cratemaker.
View of a cratemaking company yard. In the foreground is the company truck and Mr. W. J. Shenton is pictured holding the horse.
The long hazel rods used in crate making can be seen in the background, ...
Cratemakers.
Group portrait of four cratemakers in a cratemaking yard.
These crates were used to pack delicate ceramic wares for safe transportation.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Cratemakers.
View of a cratemaking company yard. In the foreground is the company truck and the cratemakers.
The long hazel rods used in crate making can be seen in the background, alongside some finished crates. ...
Erecting a railway bridge, Stoke-on-Trent
This picture was taken during the erection of a railway bridge in the north of Stoke-on-Trent on the 21st April 1929. As you can see a crowd of people gathered to watch the construction.
Despite our ...
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 Forges. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trent & Mersey Canal and a steel manufacturing site.
Taken at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Great Beauty and Great Riches - A pamphlet concerning the proposed Grand Commercial Canal, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
A frustrating meeting has taken place at the Star and White Hart Inn, Uttoxeter.
Supporters of a scheme to build a new canal in Staffordshire have grown weary of attempts to discredit their project ...
Huntley Earthworks. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a view of the earthworks at Huntley, Staffordshire. Taken on April 27th 1933.
J J West, Crate makers, Navigation Road, Middleport
J J West & Sons were crate makers for the pottery industry, operating a crate yard in Navigation Road alongside the short Burslem Branch Canal. This was a short (1/2 mile) branch coming off the Trent ...
Longton Road, Rough Close. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Longton Road, Rough Close, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Swynnerton Arms public house and a horse and cart can be seen in the distance.
Meaford Lock, Nr. Stone. Photographed by William Blake.
View of a lock and a horse drawn narrow boat on the Trent & Mersey Canal.
This view was taken at Meaford, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire.
Meeting to discuss a new canal from the Trent to the Mersey
A meeting to discussed a proposed new canal linking the Trent and Mersey has been rescheduled.
It will now take place at midday on 1 June 1796, at the Roebuck in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
This notice ...
Meir Heath. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene with a view of the windmill and Windmill Pub at Meir Heath, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
New Post Office, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Sited on the corner of Leek Road and Station Road in Stoke, this is the city's main letter and parcel sorting office. The New Post Office in Leek Road replaced the "new" Post Office, built 1930, in Station ...
Patent Cast Iron Octagon Box Nave - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Rough and potholed roads posed serious problems in this period, when a broken wheel could mean damaged cargo or long delays to a journey.
Tomorrow's World
Just imagine - to talk excitedly about ...
Pottery crates at J J West, Crate makers, Navigation Road, Middleport
Crate making was an important ancillary trade for the pottery industry. Crate yards were usually small companies, but very important in reducing losses through transport breakages of finished pottery. ...