Shraff tip on Summerbank Road, Tunstall
This shraff tip was in an old clay pit at the junctrion of Summerbank Road and High Street on the edge of Sandyford.
Shraff tips (also known as Shaff Rucks and Shord Rucks) are pottery industry rubbish ...
Shraff Tip, Trubshawe Cross, Stoke-on-Trent.
This shraff tip was near Trubshawe Cross, possibly from the Ellgreave Pottery. A shraff tip or ruck contains waste from the pottery industry: waste moulds, saggars and faulty ware.
Sneyd Pipe Works, Burslem
Beehive kilns at Sneyd pipe works as seen from the Potteries Loop Line, just north of Hot Lane. The works lay to the west of the line, behind the camera would have been Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. ...
Stanley Moss and Stanley Mill, Endon
A view looking south east from Leek New Road over the open fields of Stanley Moss in Endon. The tall chimney and surrounding buildings belong to Harrison and Son's Victoria Mill, specialising in grinding ...
The Miller's House, Stanley
Looking from Puddy Lane across the mill pond towards the old mill house in Stanley. The village has a long history of flint and corn mills dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Some mills ground ...
Trent & Mersey Canal and mill, Middleport
Looking northwards along the Trent & Mersey Canal with Middleport's old calcining mill on the right hand side. Crossing the canal is the Pidduck Street bridge, whilst in the distance on the left is the ...
Victoria House, Stanley
Victoria House was the Victoria Mill manager's house. Victoria Mill was part of Harrison & Son, large scale ceramic colour and glaze manufacturers. The house dates from 1750 with 20thy century alterations. ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The Victoria Mill in Stanley was part of Harrison & Son, reputedly the largest ceramic glaze and colour manufacturers in the world in the 1890s. The glaze ingredients were initially ground into fritt ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The materials yard at Harrison & Son's Victoria Mill in Stanley. The mill ground glazes and colour for the ceramics industry. Although it took "fritt" from the company's Phoenix Works in Hanley, it also ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The Victoria Mill in Stanley was part of Harrison & Son, reputedly the largest ceramic glaze and colour manufacturers in the world in the 1890s. The glaze ingredients were initially ground into fritt ...
W.Podmore & Sons, Potters' Millers, Shelton
W Podmore & Sons were a family firm of potters' millers with several mills around North Staffordshire. This is their Caledonian Mill on Caledonia Road in Shelton, just off Cemetery Road. The buildings ...
Wall of Saggars in Burslem
A wall of saggars between Oxley Street (named Howard Street until the 1950s) and Haywood Street in Burslem. Saggars were fireclay containers, mostly round, oval or oblong, used to protect pottery from ...
Warwick Savage Printers and Photographers, Burslem
The large building is on the corner of Jenkins Street and Wedgwood Street in Burslem. Queen's Hall is just to the right and to the left leads to Scotia Road. Mr Warwick Savage was a wholesale stationer, ...
Waterloo Colour Works, Cobridge
Emery's Waterloo Colour works was on the corner of Grange Street and Waterloo Road in Cobridge. Robert Emery established a colour manufactory in Grange Street, Cobridge in 1840. Established in 1845, ...
Wenger's Colour Works, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Wenger's Ceramic Colour and Chemical Works on Etruria Road, at the bottom of Basford Bank. The works lay between Garner Street and the railway station at Etruria, the signals can be seen to the left ...
Wood's canal side pottery, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the rear of Arthur Wood's pottery which was originally part of Longport Pottery. Longport Pottery dates from the 1770s and over time became a large works which occupied the east side ...
Wood's old pottery, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking northwards along the Trent & Mersye Canl with Wood's old pottery on then right hand side. This was originally part of the larger Longport Pottery, dating from the 1770s, which was ...
Wormed or cable decoration jugs, bowls and pepper pot
Earthenware jugs, bowls and a pepper pot. Height of large bowl 135mm. Worming was achieved by using a three-chambered slip-bottle, patented in 1811, which allowed several colours of slip to be applied ...