Fairy Glen, Darlaston, near Stone
Landscape taken at Fairy Glen including a country lane, a woman and a girl. The women in the picture are named Dot and Jeannie. Jeannie is Jane Leach (nee Merriman) who died 2 September 1940.
It appears ...
Fairy Glen, Easter 1907. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a country lane. Taken at Fairy Glen during the Easter of 1907.
Family Arms Of Pedleys Of Staffs. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of an embroidered coat of arms.
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 ...
Family Tree Hanging, Unknown. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of a family tree hanging.
Family Tree Hanging, Unknown. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of a family tree hanging.
Farm Buildings, Hilderstone. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene with a view of farm buildings at Hilderstone, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Female Provident Society - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This 'benefit club' claimed to offer women a fighting chance of avoiding hopeless poverty - many years before any worker paid a National Insurance contribution.
If a woman fell ill, she could expect ...
Female Provident Society - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This 'benefit club' claimed to offer women a fighting chance of avoiding hopeless poverty - many years before any worker paid a National Insurance contribution.
This notice details the monthly payments ...
Filter press, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior showing two slip house workers using a filter press in the preparation of clay. The workers are disassembling the press to remove the clay. Taken at Minton's factory in Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken ...
Finished Warehouse, Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior with a view of a warehouse.
The women in the picture are checking ware for quality and wrapping it in preparation for leaving the factory.
The woman on the left is checking ...
Fireclay Workers.
Group portrait of pottery workers known as fireclay workers.
Fireclay is the material used to make heavy sanitaryware items like fireclay baths, sinks (the Belfast sort), items for hospitals and mortuaries ...
Fireman Stoking Calcining Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a fireman stoking a calcining kiln.
Calcining is the process of heating bone or flint to soften it for grinding down into a powder.
Bone and flint powder ...
Firing a Kiln at Minton Hollins.
Pottery factory interior showing a fireman shovelling coal into a kiln firemouth.
Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle ...
Firing Pottery. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of the smokey industrial landscape as pottery manufacturers fire their products in kilns and ovens.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...
First day of polling in Newcastle-under-Lyme - 1831 election notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
After a day of voting in Newcastle-under Lyme's 1831 elections, the standing was as follows:
E. Peel - 309 votes;
W.H. Miller - 204 votes;
J. Wedgwood - 151 votes.
This notice was collected ...
First Page of the Old Register from Caverswall Church with Parts Deciphered. Photographed by William Blake.
First Page, dated 1552, of the Old Register from St. Peter's Church at Caverswall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Fishing, Longton Park. Photographed by William Blake.
Park scene taken at Longton Park, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The photograph includes anglers fishing the park lake.
The park's official name is Queen's Park and it was officially opened on July ...