Proposed Commercial Canal - Declaration from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views.
At this time, the committee were taking on a weighty opponent, ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
St. Gregory's, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Church exterior taken at St. Gregory's, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
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 ...
Stafford Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene.
Taken on Stafford Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Steamers, Blackpool. Photographed by William Blake.
Seascape with a view of steam boats and a pier. Taken at Blackpool, Lancashire.
Stoke Roundhouse, Stoke-on-Trent
This is the locomotive yard at Stoke Roundhouse in Stoke-on-Trent and the men standing around the engine are likely to be locomotive engineers and company managers. If you look closely you can see that ...
Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
This plan shows the front of Stoke-on-Trent railway station.The outer face of the railway station has remained virtually unchanged since it was built but the interior underwent some major modifications ...
Tamms Pottery, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Tamms Pottery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
It is thought that most of the pottery factory interiors and pottery worker photographs were taken here between 1900-1903. Tamms Pottery was just ...
The Canal, Stoke-on-Trent. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of Stoke Clay Wharf.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing ...
The Crescent, Wolstanton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at The Crescent, Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Intended Commercial Canal - Minutes of a meeting at the White Hart and Star Inn, Uttoxeter. From the Enoch Wood scrapbook
An ambitious new project has begun in Staffordshire - outlined at a meeting at the White Hart and Star Inn, Uttoxeter.
A transport revolution
A proposed new canal promises to transform the transport ...
The Proprieters of the Light Post Coach - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Post coach in the Potteries - Finally!
The national post coach service begins to run through the Potteries as part of the London to Liverpool service.
The Potteries had been trying to get this service ...
Tipping Molten Slag at an Ironworks. Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial scene taken at Etruria Steel Works in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This view includes a steam engine and workers tipping molten waste known as slag.
Trent & Mersey Canal at City Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north along the Trent & Mersey Canal at the City Road bridge. The wharf buildings (sometime the North Staffs Railway & Canal Company) on the left date from the 18th century. The photograph was ...
Trucks leaving a pot bank
Trucks leave a pot bank fully laden with pallets and crates of wares.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Union Inn, Measham, March 31st 1796 - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Post in the Potteries - 1796
In 1796 a national postal system using a fleet of coaches was growing in coverage but still did not directly serve the Potteries.
Many towns and cities not served by ...
Wharf Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Wharf Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is possibly the best known image from the collection. Blake, in a library entry for the North Staffs Field Club, describes ...