It's A Pretty Thing - Stoke-on-Trent! Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial landscape taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This image, with its damning caption, is one of many where Blake is critical of the conditions created in the city by the pottery industry.
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Ivy House, Wetton. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene with a view of Ivy House, Wetton, Staffordshire.
J. A. Lovatt in Bog Lane, Longton
J.A. Lovatt was a photographer who lived at 6 Ludwall Road, Normacot. He was a member of the North Staffordshire Field Club in the 1920s. His collection of photographs of Longton and area is held at ...
Jane Amelia Merriman
Outdoor portrait of a lady in formal dress posing amongst blossom.
The woman is named Jeannie. She is the subject of other photographs in the collection. Jeannie is Jane Amelia Merriman who was born ...
Jeannie at Blackpool
Outdoor portrait of a woman on the beach holding a starfish. The location is Blackpool and the woman's name is Jeannie. There are other portraits of her in the collection. Jeannie is Jane Leach (nee Merriman) ...
Jiggerer and Mould Runner.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a jiggerer and young mould runner making plates.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The ...
Jiggering a dish in a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior showing a man making a dish using a jigger. flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The batter on the right ...
Jiggering and Casting.
Pottery factory interior showing a man making dishes using a jigger.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes the ...
Jiggering at Gladstone.
Pottery factory interior with a view inside a flatmaking workshop.
The worker is seated at a jiggering bench.
Jiggering was a way of fashioning flat wares using a combination of moulds and profile ...
Jiggering Workshop, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a jiggering workshop. The picture includes the caption "Jolliers Making Saucers and Plates" but this process is normally known as jiggering. The jiggerers are making ...
Jiggering.
Pottery factory interior showing a man making plates using a jiggering machine.
A flat piece of clay is placed on a rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes ...
John Joyce, born 1880
John Joyce was born in 1880 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He joined the army in 1914. After WWI he moved to Ireland, where he stayed until his death in the early 1960s.
John of Gaunt's Castle. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of a book page containing historic information about John of Gaunt's Castle.
John Richard Beech Masefield
J.R.B Masefield was born in Stone in 1850. His family lived at Old Hall, now the offices of Stone Town Council. He trained in the legal profession, and joined Cheadle solicitors Blagg & Son in the 1870s. ...
John Russell Alder, Gunner 11052276 Royal Artillery. Born 1923
John was born on 27th September 1923 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. In 1941 all men between 20 and 23 years of age had to report to the Employment Exchange in Blackpool Lancashire to register for military ...
John Thomas Arlidge
Portrait of John Thomas Arlidge (1822-1899).
Born Chatham, Kent, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1848. In 1862 he accepted a post as physician to the North Staffordshire Infirmary ...
Jolleying Plates.
Pottery factory interior with a view of plate makers in a jolleying shop.
Clay is placed on a rotating mould and a profile tool is brought down onto the upper side.
The boy in the foreground is ...
Josiah Spode
Josiah Spode was born in in Lane End, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1733 and died in 1797.
The company he founded is best known for two of the most important developments in English ceramics - the perfection ...