Entrance to Shelton Steel & Iron Works, Newport Lane, Middleport
ooking south near the end of Newport Lane at one of the entrances to Shelton Steel Works. The buildings on the right, partly hidden by the Shelton signboard, is Oliver's Mill with its calcining oven. ...
Westport Road, Burslem
Looking from the top of Westport Road towards St John's Square, Burslem. The building on the left edge is the front of Hill Pottery, rebuilt in 1839 by Samuel Alcock. With its ornate front, it was described ...
Wade Heath's Hill Works Pottery, Burslem
The photograph was taken looking up Westport Road from the near the corner of Back Sytch Road (now no longer). On the left is the sign for Hill Top Council Junior and Infants' School which were on the ...
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 ...
Old Fire Station, Burslem
The old fire station was in Fountain Place at the top of Westport Road just along from the entrance to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Pottery. At the time of the photograph it was occupied by Edwin Longmore's ...
Liverpool Arms Hotel and Bowbell Pottery, Burslem
The Bowbell Pottery (at number 70) occupied the building that once was The Liverpool Arms Hotel on Westport Road in Burslem. Westport Road was originally named Liverpool Road as it was the route from ...
Hill Works, Westport Road, Burslem.
The Hill Works was built in 1814 on what was then called Liverpool road (now Westport Road), the major road through to Tunstall and the port of Liverpool. This area was known as The Sytch. It was opposite ...
Hill Top Pottery. Burslem
The Hill Top Pottery (or Hill Pottery) was on Westport road (formerly Liverpool Road), Burslem, almost opposite the Hill Works of Wade Heath. Hill Top Pottery was at the top of the hill (called The Sytch) ...
Fowlea Brook, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The view south from the bridge over the Fowlea Brook just north of Longport Station. At this point the Stoke on Trent City boundary runs along the brook: to the right is Newcastle under Lyme. On the ...
Fountain Place Pottery, Westport Road, Burslem
The camera is looking down Westport road from Fountain Place in Burslem. On the left, Alcock's cycle and television shop used to be the corner frontage to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place pottery works. To ...
Beeston Tor, Manifold Valley
A view of the Manifold Valley, looking towards the limestone cliffs of Beeston Tor. The building on the lane in the middle distance is Beeston Tor Farm. This area is now part of the Peak District National ...
Beeston Tor Farm, Manifold Valley
Beeston Tor Farm in the Manifold Valley, near to the confluence of the Rivers Hamps and Manifold. Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking northwest over Westport Lake towards Bradwell Woods. The main railway line runs along the shoreline in front of the industrial buildings on Chemical Lane. There is more housing ...
Washington Pottery Works, Waterloo Road, Burslem
Looking along Waterloo Road towards Burslem with the old Washington Pottery with the clock tower on the left. The pottery site and the buildings to the right have all been demolished, although the white ...
Warwick Savage Printers and Photographers, Burslem
The large building is on the corner of Jenkins Street and Wedgwood Street in Burslem. Queen's Hall is just to the right and to the left leads to Scotia Road. Mr Warwick Savage was a wholesale stationer, ...
The Swan Hotel, Burslem
The Swan Hotel is on the north side of Swan Square in Burslem. Arnold Bennett called it the Duck inn in his novels of the Five Towns. Today it is a public house, called just The Swan. There was an inn ...
Queen's Hall, Burslem
The front of Queen's Hall on Wedgwood Street in Burslem. This grade II listed building has been both a Town Hall and theatre. Built in 1911 with three entrance doors, Corinthian columns, and an elaborate ...
Overhouse Works entrance, Wedgwood Street, Burslem
Looking through the gates into the yard of the Overhouse Works on the corner of Wedgwood Street and Overhouse Street in Burslem. The original Overhouse Manufactory goes back to 1787 and Thomas Wedgwood. ...