The Potteries Museum from Crown Street, Hanley
This photograph, taken from Crown Street, shows the rear of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery and, on the left, the buildings at the north end of Broad Street. In the foreground are pre-fab houses ...
Looking north east from near the top of Sturgess Street, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph was taken from close to the corner of Sturgess Street and Bath Terrace in Stoke. Until the 1950s Sturgess Street was called Edward Street. These houses in the top part of Sturgess Street ...
Minton factory, London Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north along London Road towards Church Street. The three bottle ovens were once part of Minton's factory and at one time were hidden behind a range of workshops which fronted onto London Road. ...
Johnson's Imperial Pottery and the Caldon Canal, Hanley
Looking west along the Caldon Canal with Johnson Brothers' Imperial Pottery on the left hand side. The Eastwood earthenware works is on the other side. In the distance is Lichfield Street bridge. Charles ...
Hargreaves Mills on Botteslow Street, Hanley
Hargreaves Mill was on Botteslow Street just over the bridge over the Caldon Canal. The canal is just visible on the left hand edge of the photograph. In the 1880s this was the site of Wellington Mill ...
Bedford Street Lock and Mellor's Millers on the Caldon Canal, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Bedford Street Locks (locks 1 and 2) looking north along the Caldon Canal towards Mellor' Mills wharf and works. The canal bends sharply round to the left towards the ...
Caldon Canal from Bedford Street bridge, Hanley
Looking south along the Caldon Canal from the bridge at Bedford Street. On the left is the edge of large Bedford earthenware works operated by Ridgways. The tall building in the centre of the photograph ...
Brewery Street, Hanley
Looking along Brewery Street towards the junction with Bryan Street. Beyond is the site of the old Port Vale football ground, a car park by the time this photograph was taken. The building on the right ...
Bird Cage Walk, Hanley
Bird Cage Walk is a narrow alley connecting Broad Street with Clough Street. The Students' Bookshop building is on the corner of Broad Street and Marsh Street in Hanley. Between this and the neighbouring ...
Spark Street, Stoke upon Trent
Looking along Spark Street from near the London Road end. The building on the extreme left is the Minton memorial Building, later known as the School of Art. Next door is the public baths building, immediately ...
Pall Mall and the old Central Library buildings, Hanley
The single storey building is the old Mechanic's Institute, opened in 1861. The Institute was a two storey building from 1880 when a third floor was added. The Mechanic's Institute aimed to provide adult ...
Etruria Vale Mills on the Caldon Canal, Stoke-on-Trent
On the left is Mellor's Minerals flint mill on the Caldon Canal off Etruria Vale Road (to the left). The camera is looking north along the canal with the (now demolished) houses on Bedford Street in the ...
Eastwood Road bridge and Johnson's Pottery, Caldon Canal, Hanley
This is a view north from the Albion Bridge over the Caldon Canal on Eastwood Road, Hanley. To the left is the Johnson Brothers Hanley Works. Just out of the photograph to the right is another Johnson ...
The Spitfire, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The temporary "greenhouse" being built to house the Spitfire RW 388 outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Bethesda Street. This aircraft was manufactured in Castle Bromwich in 1945. Mounted ...
Official opening of the Spitfire display, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The "greenhouse" on Bethesda Street housed a Mk XVI Spitfire RW 388. Designed by Butt Lane born engineer, R J Mitchell, the Spitfire was built in 1945 and served with the RAF.
This photograph was taken ...
Sacred Heart Church, Jasper Street, Hanley
The Church of the Sacred Heart stands on the corner of Downey Street and Jasper Street south of the centre of Hanley. It is a large nineteenth century brick Gothic style building which occupies the whole ...
Ovens at New Hall Pottery, Hanley
The courtyard of the New Hall Pottery seen from Hope Street, with the line of enclosed bottle ovens and the bottom of the factory chimney, on the left. The works fronted onto York Street and New Hall ...
Johnson's Potteries, Hanley
The three ovens belong to Johnson's Trent sanitaryware works on Eastwood Road in Hanley. To the right, the factory with the tower is Johnson's Hanley pottery. In the foreground is the company's sports ...