Senior pupils in fancy dress, Normacot
Probably Normacot C.E. Junior School, Meir Road, Normacot.
The school opened in 1853, with new buildings in 1876, and a new infants' school in 1895. All the new buildings were demolished in about ...
Slip House
Factory interior showing pottery workers in a slip house. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Slip House.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a slip house and workers using a filter press.
The man in the centre of the picture can be seen rolling prepared clay out of the press.
Taken from the Gladstone ...
Slip House.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a slip house.
The slip house was the area where the clay was prepared.
The man in the picture is inspecting 'blungers' on a mixing machine. This is where ...
Sorting, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a woman sorting china tea cups. Sorting is a quality check on the ware. The woman is checking for any marks left on the ware from the firing process. She knocks the marks ...
Sponging. Miss Maud Hancock.
Pottery factory interior depicting a female worker in the process of sponging ware.
The photograph was taken at Booth's pottery factory in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
The worker in the picture is ...
Spraying Glaze.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman aerographing glaze onto a ewer.
She is using a pneumatic airbrush.
Aerography was the mechanical spraying of glaze onto pots.
It also helped enormously ...
Spring Valley, Trentham
A stereoscope view of Spring Valley at Trentham. Spring Valley, on the Trentham Estate, separates Jervis Wood from King's Wood.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton
St. Clair Street. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at St. Clair 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 ...
Stacking Saggars in a Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view of workers stacking saggars in a kiln.
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and smoke during bottle ...
Stafford Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene.
Taken on Stafford Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Stafford Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Stafford Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Stafford Street is now known as The Strand.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them ...
Star & Garter Road, Lightwood. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene with a view of the Star & Garter Road, Lightwood, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and ...
Station Porter, Consall
Station porter at Consall wearing the uniform of the North Staffordshire Railway.
The North Staffordshire Railway operated between 1845 and 1923, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish ...
Steam Ship "Lucania" at Stage, Liverpool
Lantern slide showing a crowded dock at Liverpool. In the background is a steam ship called the Lucania. Photographed by William Blake.
Built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company in Glasgow in the ...
Sticking Up.
Pottery factory interior showing a worker in the process of 'sticking up'.
He is using slip (liquid clay) to join separately made pieces together.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Stoke City Football Team
Players, trainers and manager (Horace Austerberry in the bowler hat on the back row) photographed during the 1905 -1906 season.
Stoke upon Trent Town Hall, Glebe Street
This 1904 view along Glebe Street shows on the left, St Peter's Cambers, the Town Hall and the Glebe public house. The road between St Peter's Chambers (now demolished) and the Town Hall became Kingsway. ...