Stafford House, Clough Street, Hanley
When this photograph was taken, Stafford House was occupied by C H Johnson & Co who manufactured "Paulmar" frocks and blouses. The building was originally part of Clementson's Phoenix Mill (potters millers) ...
Slippery Lane from Clough Street, Hanley
Slippery Lane ran south from Clough Street to Robson Street and onto Sun Street. This photograph was taken from Clough Street with the Ascot and Vulcan potworks of Alcock, Lindley and Bloore each side ...
PMT Garage in Clough Street, Hanley
The Potteries Motor Traction Company ran buses in the Potteries from 1933, taking over from its predecessor the Potteries Electric Traction Co who had started the earliest trams in the area. The Hanley ...
Gough & Co, Clough Street, Hanley
Gough & Co were "Buildings and Works Plant" manufacturers with premises on Clough Street. C lough Street ran from Marsh street west to Etruria Road. The eastern end has been cut through by The Potteries ...
F W Langley's works, Clough Street, Hanley
F W Langley were an electrical and mechanical engineering company with their main works on the north side of Clough Street. The neighbouring works building belongs to Gough & Co, engineers. Langley's ...
Excavations for Charles Street shopping centre, Hanley.
The excavations and foundations for the shopping centre attached to Hanley bus station. Old Hall street runs across the photograph behind the hoardings towards its junction with Albion Square. Tontine ...
Bullock & Bosson's premises, Clough Street, Hanley
Looking along the north side of Clough Street with Bullock & Bosson, typewriter and office furniture suppliers, in the foreground. Next along are F W Langley, electrical engineers, and Gough's engineering ...
Ascot Pottery on Clough Street, Hanley
The Ascot Pottery was operated by Alcock, Lindley & Bloore, along with the neighbouring Vulcan Pottery on Clough Street. The factory opened in 1919 and the company became famous for "Brown Betty" teapots ...
Clementson's Potters and Millers, Hanley
This is a view from Broad Street along the lane to Clough Street. Halfway down was Clementson's Phoenix Mill. Until demolished in the 1930s, the car park on the left was a part of the Phoenix earthenware ...
Ridgway Potteries, Longton
Ridgway Potteries with its array of bottle ovens, was on Spring Bank Road, next door to Longton Municipal Cemetery. The works was originally the Daisy Bank Works opened in 1853 and operated by Adderleys, ...
Longton Station and the Phoenix Works, Longton
Longton Station in the foreground with the old Phoenix Pottery building behind and the tower of St John The Baptist Church (demolished in 1979) beyond that.
The station, opened in 1848, is on an embankment. ...
Hanley Station
The booking and parcels office of Hanley railway station stood on what became the car park of the Grand Hotel on Trinity Street. The platforms were in a deep, sharply curved cutting below Trinity Street, ...
Downing's Blurton Tilery.
G H Downing's Blurton Tileries looking north east towards Blurton and Fenton. The factory closed just before the photograph was taken.
Downing's Blurton Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
G H Downing's Blurton Tileries just after closure in 1964. A view of the beehive ovens, chimneys and roofing tile stock for sale. The photograph as taken just west of Ballinson Road, looking north east ...
Downing's Blurton Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
G H Downing's Blurton Tileries just after closure in 1964. A view of the beehive ovens, chimneys and roofing tile stock for sale. The photograph as taken just west of Ballinson Road, looking north east ...
Downing's Blurton Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
A general view of the north side of G H Downing's Blurton Tileries, just off Ballinson Road in Blurton. In the background are some of the beehive brick and tile kilns and chimneys, with piles of ridge ...
Coal Ovens at Downing's Blurton Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The kilns had domed roofs with a separate chimney and were called downdraught ovens. There were 8 to 10 "firemouths" around the outside of each oven used to stoke the fires. The hot gases were drawn ...
Bucknall and Northwood Station
Bucknall and Northwood Station looking south along the line towards the next station at Fenton Manor. In the distance is Berry Hill spoil tip. The station was at the bottom of Limekiln Bank and the ...