Hilderstone. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Hilderstone, Staffordshire.
The photograph includes children playing outside a shop, which has a number of product advertisments placed on its walls and front.
Christ Church ...
Hill & Ainsworth Printers, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent
Hill & Ainsworth's shop and works was on the corner of Glebe Street and Copeland Street. The company dates from 1908 and were printers, stationers, bookbinders and booksellers. Hill & Ainsworth evolved ...
Keeling's Patent Substitute for Red and White Lead - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Improved Glazes
Printed notice by industrialist and inventor James Keeling. Here he makes various claims about an improved formula for ceramic glazes, which he has patented.
The glaze is 30% cheaper ...
Keeling's Substitute for White and Red Lead, in Making Glazes - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Patent notice and conditions of use
Printed notice informing pottery manufacturers of a new patented glaze made by James Keeling.
Conditions for using the substitute glaze applied.
Manufacturers ...
London Road, Oakhill, Stoke-on-Trent
A view west along London Road at the corner of Trent Valley Road. The Bass sign, on the right, is linked to The Oak Tree public house. At the extreme edge is "outdoor sales", where alcohol was bought ...
Longton Road, Hem Heath
This photograph was taken from the bridge over the Trent & Mersey Canal, looking east towards Hem Heath. On the far side of the road is the old wheelwright's shop and smithy which had become a petrol ...
Mechanical Apparatus for Firefighting - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In Enoch Wood's day, factories and coal mines needed more than buckets of sand to put out serious blazes.
The trouble was that there was - as yet - no rapid-response fire service to call upon.
Unsurprisingly, ...
Meir heath, The Cross Roads. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the cross roads at Meir Heath, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The picture was taken from Hilderstone Road and the Windmill public house can be seen on the right.
Meir Heath. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene with a view of the windmill and Windmill Pub at Meir Heath, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Nantwich, Cheshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken in High Street, Nantwich, Cheshire. This row of buildings is a typical example of the half timbered, black and white Tudor architecture found in the historic market town.
Nantwich, Cheshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Nantwich, Cheshire.
This view includes a mock tudor building.
Nantwich. Churches Mansions 1451. Photographed by William Blake.
View of an antique shop housed in Churches Mansion, Hospital Street, Nantwich, Cheshire.
This building is a typical example of the half timbered, black and white Tudor architecture found in the historic ...
Newcastle Street, Middleport
The photograph shows the view west along Newcastle Street, up the hill towards Burslem. St Paul Street on the left lead to St Paul's Church. The buildings just beyond and along it have been demolished ...
Notice from Ralph Wedgwood - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Glazes and Ovens
Printed notice from inventor Ralph Wedgwood.
He claims to have devised a way of recycling waste pottery to make glaze.
The glaze is touted as being of superior quality to lead ...
Parliament Row, Hanley.
This scene shows a billposter outside Woolworth & Co. Ltd around the late fifties or early sixties. The poster advertises the play 'Subway in the Sky', which was showing at the Odeon cinema where Frederick ...
Patent Potter's Ovens - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Protecting ideas
Printed notice informing pottery manufacturers of Valentine Close and James Keeling's successful application for patent on a new oven design.
The new design promises to use less ...
Queen Street, Burslem
The view west along Queen Street in Burslem, from the junction with Waterloo Road. The Food Fair building used to be the Burslem & District Co-operative Society Emporium, an Art Deco building opened ...
St Margaret's Mission Church, Victoria Road, Fenton Low
The mission church of St Margaret and St Anthony in St Anthony's Row off Victoria Road in Fenton. Behind is the spoil tip of Berry Hill Collieries.
A small church was opened around 1896 as a mission ...