Wheatly & Son brickworks, Springfields, Stoke-on-Trent
Wheatly's Brick & Tile Works (Springfield Tileries) fronted onto Newcastle Road (A34). This photograph shows the rear of the works, taken from Wheatly Avenue, with marl hole in the foreground and the ...
Wheatly's Springfield Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
Wheatly's Brick and Tile company works was established before the 1820s. The Springfield tilery main entrance was on Newcastle Road in the Springfield area of Stoke. Closed in 1982 and demolished soon ...
Wheatly's Springfields Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The stockyard and storage sheds at Wheatly's Springfield tileries. The names "Romulus" and Seville" over the shed are different types of roofing tiles. In the background are two downdraught beehive ovens ...
Wheatly's Springfields Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The stockyard, ovens and chimneys at Wheatly's Springfield tilery. In the foreground are a variety of ridge and roof tiles. The painted sign on the gable end on the right hand side advertises "bricks, ...
Wildblood potbank, Normacot
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens. Taken at the rear of Wildblood Pot Bank, John Street, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent.
Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery, Middleport
A J Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. The works originated as the Mersey Pottery, operated by Anthony Shaw from around 1860, becoming the property ...
William Adams Pottery in Furlong Road, Tunstall.
The Greenfield Pottery in Furlong Road dates originally from around 1818 but was largely rebuilt in the 1920s. It is was built by the William Adams family, a large family of Tunstall potters. The works ...
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, he photograph shows the south side of Williamson Street. The building in the foreground was occupied by Bradbury Brothers, who supplied paper bags, twine and stationery. The ovens behind ...
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 ...
Wilton Pottery, Duke Street, Fenton
The building dates from 1905 and has had a wide variety of uses including a teddy bear factory, Quickfit laboratory glassware and the War department from 1939 to 46. At the time of the photograph it was ...
Wiltshaw and Robinson's Pottery, Carlton Works, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent
Wiltshaw & Robinson were founded in 1890, renamed as Carlton Ware in 1958 before the factory closed in 1989. The company produced a very wide range of table and ornamental earthenwares. The Carlton ware ...
Windsor and Elektra Potteries, Longton
The Windsor and Elektra Potteries were on Edensor Road, just before the junction with Clayton Road. This photograph was taken looking south from in front of the old Alhambra Cinema, with Clayton Road ...
Winkle and Wood Colonial Pottery factory, Stoke-on-Trent
This picture of the Winkle and Wood Colonial Pottery factory on Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent, was taken just prior to its demolition in September 1999. At the bottom of the building you can see a small ...
Wiping Glaze. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of a pottery worker wiping glaze.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing ...
Women Biscuit Brushing.
Pottery factory interior with a view of women sorting biscuit ware outside a kiln.
Biscuit is a term used for ware that has been fired but has not yet been glazed.
They are brushing and inspecting ...
Women Workers at Gladstone.
Pottery factory exterior with a group of female workers posing for a photograph.
Taken at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the worker's names are, left to right, Nellie Melpass, ...
Women workers, Chapman's Pottery, Longton
Group portrait of women glost workers. Probably taken at Chapman's pottery factory, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is ...