Phoenix Works, King Street, Longton
In the centre is the Phoenix Works on King Street in Longton. This photograph was taken from outside Wagstaff & Brunt's old Richmond Pottery, with Longton Railway Bridge just visible in the far distance. ...
J T Fell's Pottery, Smithy Lane, Longton
This photograph was taken looking across St Martin's Lane (no longer named) towards the top of Smithy Lane in Longton. Smithy Lane runs between J T Fell Pottery on the left and Allin & Williams, wholesale ...
Edensor Old Church, Longton
This is the east end of Edensor old church. The church and surrounding graveyard was founded in 1854. At the time of the photograph it had been deconsecrated and was used as a warehouse. The church was ...
Ceramics works, Normacot Road, Longton
The building on the left was the offices of Shaw & Copestake Ltd., the producers of fancy earthenware with the Sylvac mark. They had factories nearby on Normacot Road and Chadwick Street. The building ...
Bucknall Workingmen's Club, Marychurch Road, Bucknall
Bucknall Workingmen's Club and Institute was on Marychurch Road, just south of St Mary's Church. Today the land is modern housing. The club was built on the site of Grove House. Bert Bentley notes that ...
Minton's factory, London Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking south along London Road with the Minton factory on the left and partly hidden by the lamppost, the old Stoke School of Art. The original part of the Minton factory is just beyond the "new" addition ...
Cyples Lane and Noon's Court, Longton
Looking along Cyples Lane in Longton. At the bottom of the passage is Market Street, the Heathcote Arms Hotel is the building just visible. On the left edge, the classical looking building is the old ...
Swan Square, Burslem
Swan Square in Burslem from Market Place. Waterloo Road carries on mistily from Swan Square towards Cobridge and Hanley. Moorland Road is off to the left.
The two large buildings on the left are the ...
St Gregory's Church, Longton.
The demolition of St Gregory's Roman Catholic Church in Longton in 1968. The photograph shows the remains of the large rose window at the west end of the church which stood on Heathcote Road, opposite ...
Bowling Greens, Bucknall Park
Bucknall Park lies between Heath House Lane and the River Trent, just north of Finney Gardens. The park dates back to 1956 when nearly 17 acres of land was laid out with sports facilities, a pavilion ...
Trent Terrace on Leek Road, Bucknall
Looking south along Leek Road from close to the entrance to Heath House Lane, on the left. The row of houses was known as Trent Terrace, the River Trent is just off then photograph to the right. At the ...
The site of the old Victoria Colliery, Bucknall
This photograph was taken from the end of Hyndley close looking east towards Willeton Street and Malthouse Lane. In the foreground are twop rows of back to back council built garages, erected in the 1950s. ...
Palissy Pottery, Longton
Palissy Pottery was on Chancery Lane in Longton, which runs across the middle of the photograph. The large building on the left hand edge is the back of the Empire Theatre which fronted onto Commerce ...
Normacot Road, Longton
In the centre of the photograph are the backs of the works on Bagnall Street, the road going off to the left. On the corner stands the old American Hotel. Off to the left in the foreground is the old ...
Newhouse Road, Bucknall
This is the view northwards along Newhouse Road from close to the junction with Werrington Road. At the top is the junction with Granville Road. All the houses in the photograph were built between 1945 ...
Newhouse Road and Newhouse Court, Bucknall
The view north along Newhouse Road from the corner of Granville Road. On the right, the buildings under construction are now part of Newhouse Court, a local authority sheltered housing scheme. Newhouse ...
Mossfield Colliery, Longton
Mossfield Colliery looking west from Dividy Lane. Sunk in the 1850s, with up to four shafts, the mine closed in 1963. The prominent spoil tip has been profiled and landscaped and forms part of the 1970s ...
Mossfield Colliery, Longton
The surface buildings and spoil tip of Mossfield Colliery near Longton. Dating from the middle of the 19th Century, the colliery produced coal for industry and households until closure in 1963. In 1889 ...