Parkhall Colliery
Part of Parkhall Colliery alongside the mineral line, the Adderley Green and Bucknall branch line. In the photograph is the winding gear for the shaft and the "screens", where coal was sorted from stone. ...
Parkhall Colliery and tip from Park Hall Hills
Looking towards Longton from Parkhall Hills. The middle of the photograph is dominated by the spoil tips of Parkhall Colliery, closed nearly four years before the picture was taken. Park Hall Road, connecting ...
Blyth Pottery, Longton
This is the rear of Blyth Pottery on Sandgate Street (previously Gate Street) in Longton. The front of the works, operated by John Tams & Sons Ltd., was on Uttoxeter Road. These works produced earthenware. ...
The Broadway, Meir
Photograph taken looking north towards Weston Coyney, Meir Heath is up the hill behind the camera.
The Jolly Colliers' Inn, Loftus Street, Cobridge
Loftus street was one of a group of streets of terraced housing just to the west of York Street in Hanley. The houses have been demolished and the area cleared. Surrounding streets included Sydney Street, ...
Shops around Market Square, Hanley
The view of Market Square from Lamb Street, with Town Road at the top. The Bass public house on Town Road is The Grapes which was next door to The Angel. Demolished in the 1970s it became a car accessory ...
Rataud's Ceramic Transfers in Meigh Street, Hanley
This is the Alliance Works on Meigh Street, built in 1914 and occupied by Rataud's, a ceramic Transfer producing company. The narrow frontage lead to a large works between Meigh Street and Majolica Street ...
Neale Harrison Pottery in Majolica Street, Hanley
Majolica Street was known as Wilson Street until the 1950s. The line of the short street is now buried beneath the A50 Potteries Way. Coming south from Market Street (now Huntbach Street), Majolica Street ...
Mount Street, Northwood, Hanley
The camera is looking north eastwards along Mount Street inn the Northwood area of Hanley. Oak Street is the road running across the bottom. The then open space in the distance is Birches Head. Most ...
Lichfield Basket & Cane Works in Meigh Street, Hanley
Lichfield Basket & Cane Works was opposite the Corona works (on the left) and just along from Rataud's ceramic transfer works (towards the camera on the right hand edge). The company advertised themselves ...
Eastwood from Paxton Street, Hanley
The Eastwood Sanitary Works (George Howson's) viewed from the bottom of Paxton Street in Hanley. In the far distance on the right hand edge of the photograph is the spoil tip of Mossfield Colliery. Lichfield ...
Chromo Pottery Transfers Ltd., Meigh Street, Hanley.
This works was on the corner of Meigh Street and Burton Place in Hanley. It was the site of the Corona clothing works and before that the Corona Pottery. Now demolished, the land is now the rear of Marks ...
Alley off Hope Street, Hanley
This is an alley running off Hope Street in Hanley leading to the New Hall Pottery works. This alleyway is marked on the 1880 O.S. map. and the surrounding housing and works buildings are earlier. The ...
Shops around Market Square, Hanley.
This was the view up Market Square towards the Angel public house on Town Road. In 1963 the square hadn't been pedestrianised and was a popular car parking area. On the right, where the Potteries Shopping ...
Shops around Market Square, Hanley
A photograph of the north side of Market Square into Lamb Street, probably taken on a Sunday or Bank Holiday given the lack of traffic and parked cars. M Huntbach's store dominates one side of Lamb Street, ...
Lamb Street, Hanley
The photograph was taken before The Potteries Shopping Centre was built and when Market Square was parking space. Looking along Lamb Street, on the right is Martins Bank, amalgamated into Barclays Bank ...
Fountain Square from Stafford Street, Hanley
This was the view north from Stafford Street into Fountain Square with Market Square visible beyond. Now pedestrianised, there is no longer a roundabout in the square. The shops on the left (Willerbys ...
Trinity Street and Trinity Street Church, Hanley
Trinity Street Presbyterian Church with its adjoining school building just beyond. The camera is looking up Trinity Street towards Stafford Street. This side of the church is the Royal Insurance Company ...