View towards Tunstall from the top of The Sytch, Burslem
The Sytch was the hill up to Burslem from Brownhills. The photograph is looking north east with Westport Road (formerly Liverpool Road) in the foreground. What is now Federation Road would be going off ...
Villiers Street, Dresden. Photographed by William Blake.
Villiers Street, Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The street was named after the politician Charles Pelham Villiers who was the longest serving MP in Parliamentary history. For sixty three years ...
Vinebank Street, Stoke-on-Trent
This is the view northwards along Vinebank Street from the junction with London Road. Previously known as Vine Street and before that Upper Vine Row, the right hand side was originally built up in the ...
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 ...
Water Street, Boothen
Looking northwards along Water Street towards the junction with Fletcher Road (to the right) and All Saints Road (to the left). Fletcher Road continues off to the left, from where the photograph was taken. ...
Watergate Street, Tunstall
Terraced houses, numbers 1 & 13, in Watergate Street in Tunstall. The houses in this area date from the middle of the 19th century and even before 1939 there was a programme of slum clearance in the area. ...
Waterside Drive, Blurton
This photograph is looking southwest along Waterside Drive from the junction with Barlaston Road. Just off to the left is The Cuckoo Inn and beyond the entrance on the left is the corner of Zetland Place. ...
Webberley Lane, Longton
Photograph taken looking north-east up Webberley Lane. St. James's school, which became Tawney House, can be seen on the left.
Werburgh Drive, Trentham
The view west along Werburgh Drive from New Inn Lane. the photograph was taken not after the estate of houses was developed in the 1960s. This are was open space until the 1950s and the Trentham Park ...
Werrington Road from Guy Street, Townsend, Bucknall
The camera is looking eastwards along Werrington Road with Guy Street off to the right. Guy Street was known as New Street until the 1950s renaming. The houses and shops on the right date from the end ...
West Bank, Penkhull
This large house is on the corner of Penkhull New Road and West Bank. W. Goss's Falcon pottery works is off to the right and the house would have overlooked the clay pit and Kirkham's pottery works (now ...
Weston Coyney
Weston Coyney was still a small hamlet in the first decade of the 20th century. This view shows cottages by the caverswall road and Weston Road crossroads.
Wetley Rocks
A village scene of Wetley Rocks, taken from a glass plate negative.
Photographed by William Blake.
Whitehouse Road, Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking west along Whitehouse Road from the corner of Blakelow Road. Over 600 houses were built by the Borough of Stoke on Trent in Abbey Hulton in the 1920s and 30s. Tree lined road were a feature of ...
Whitehouse Road, Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent
The junction of Whitehouse Road and Leek Road (A5009) in Abbey Hulton. On the left, on the corner, is a co-op shop, a branch of the Burslem and District Industrial Co-operative Society. Founded in 1901, ...
Whitfield Road, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north along Whitfield Road from near the junction with Bemersley Road. In the distance is the spoil tip belonging to Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. Just to the left of the detached house in the ...
William Kent Porcelain, Glendale Street, Burslem.
The camera is looking along Glendale Street, off Waterloo Road, in Burslem. At the time of the photograph, Glendale Street was called Stoneley Street. At the bottom is the site of William Kent (Porcelain) ...
Williamson Street, Tunstall
Looking east from Gibson Street towards Scotia Road. Right at the bottom, the bridge carrying the Potteries Loop Line is just visible. The ovens and building on the left belong to Henry Richard's Tiles ...