Hargreaves Mills on Botteslow Street, Hanley
Hargreaves Mill was on Botteslow Street just over the bridge over the Caldon Canal. The canal is just visible on the left hand edge of the photograph. In the 1880s this was the site of Wellington Mill ...
Harrisons's Phoenix Works and offices, Garth Street, Hanley
Harrison & Sons manufactured a wide range of materials for the ceramics industry, mainly for decorating. Their Phoenix Works was at the south end of Garth Street (until the 1950s known Bath Street) in ...
Hercules Mill, Stanley
Hercules Mill was originally called Stanley Mill until rebuilt by Harrison & Sons in 1887. The original mill dates back to the 16th century and in the 1860s was used to grind both corn and flint and was ...
Hitchings Potters' Transfers works, Caledonia Road, Shelton
Hitchings ceramic transfer works were on Caledonia Road, off Cemetery Road in Shelton. The company bceased trading in 1964. The buildings still stand and have been converted into student accommodation ...
Inside Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
Victoria Mill belonged to Harrison & Son, manufacturers of ceramic colours and glazes. A Harrison's 1893 advertisement claimed they were "the largest glaze and colour makers in the world". Ingredients ...
Jesse Shirley's Bone and Flint Mill, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking from the Lower Bedford Street bridge along the Trent & Mersey canal towards Etruscan Bone & Flint Mill. The canal bends left, to the right is a small canal basin for the mill. The mill was built ...
Johnson Matthey & Co colour works, William Clowes Street, Burslem
The camera is looking southwards down William Clowes Street with St John's Church at the bottom, on Woodbank Street. William Clowes Street was formerly called Church Street. The road on the left by the ...
Johnson Matthey's Ceramic Laboratory, Nile Street, Burslem.
Johnson Matthey's ceramic research laboratory was at the top of Nile Street in Burslem. Off to the left is Mayer Bank and to the right of Johnson Matthey's was Holy Trinity Church (demolished in 1959). ...
Mellor's Minerals mill, Etruria Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
Mellor's mill was alongside the Caldon Canal just off Etruria Vale Road. The canal is hidden behind the wall and buildings on the left. This was once the Anderton Canal Company wharf and basin, the bridge ...
Middleport Mills Ltd., Furlong Lane, Middleport
The mill was at the northern end of the Burslem Branch Canal in the basin just off Furlong Lane.
Middleport Mills, Pidduck Street, Middleport
This photograph was taken from Milvale Strteet with Pidduck Street going off to the right down to the Trent & Mersey Canal. This was a calcining mill built largely in the early 19th Century, bordering ...
Old Fire Station, Burslem
The old fire station was in Fountain Place at the top of Westport Road just along from the entrance to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Pottery. At the time of the photograph it was occupied by Edwin Longmore's ...
Panorama from Bedford Street, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from just north of the flight of locks at Bedford Street in Shelton. The camera is looking northwards along the Caldon Canal with the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery on ...
Potter's Printer
A pot bank print shop and workers, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
This image was used in a slide show elsewhere in the collection entitled "Staffordshire Pottery".
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Pottery shraff tip near Summerbank Road, Tunstall
A Shraff tip was the pottery industry's rubbish tip, containing moulds, used saggars and broken pottery such as lump and wasters. Lump and waster was faulty pottery, so bad it couldn't be sold as "seconds" ...
Ramsden's Colours and Glazes, fenton
C E Ramsden manufactured colour chemicals and potters materials. This is part of their works in Montrose Street, Fenton, now demolished. The company had other premises at the bottom of Duke Street in ...
Saggar maker with stacked saggars
The saggars were made of marl, which was hard wearing and could withstand many kiln firings. Ware would be placed into the saggar in order to protect it from contamination by smoke, etc during firing. ...
Saggar wall near Tunstall cemetery
This wall made of old saggars was in the garden of Tunstall cemetery. Saggars were open boxes, made of fireclay or saggar marl and fired before use. They were specially made to contain pottery during ...