Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
Sneyd colliery was located between Burslem and Smallthorne, and not at Sneyd Green some one and a half miles away. The coal wagons on the right would be filled and taken down to Burslem to join the loop ...
Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
A huge electrical generator at Sneyd Colliery in 1920. These generators were powered by steam turbine and were immensely powerful. They would provide almost all of the electrical power used by the colliery....
Sneyd Cricket, Football and Sports Club ground, Burslem
The camera is looking north westerly over Sandbach Road towards Burslem. the square clock tower on Burslem Town Hall is just visible towards the right hand edge of the photograph. The cricket ground is ...
Sneyd Oxide Factory, Commercial Street, rear of 98 Waterloo Road, Burslem
This building was constructed between 1878 and 1900 and is part of Sneyd Oxide Factory and Warehouse. It consists of one irregular unit with basement and a courtyard to rear. There is a double doorway ...
Sneyd Pipe Works, Burslem
Beehive kilns at Sneyd pipe works as seen from the Potteries Loop Line, just north of Hot Lane. The works lay to the west of the line, behind the camera would have been Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. ...
Sorting, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a woman sorting china tea cups. Sorting is a quality check on the ware. The woman is checking for any marks left on the ware from the firing process. She knocks the marks ...
Spark Street, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking eastwards along Spark Street (Park Street until the 1950s renaming) down towards London Road. At the bottom is the frontage of the Minton pottery works with one of the bottle ovens ...
Spencer Stevenson Pottery, Short Street, Longton
This photograph was taken looking north up Short Street from Normacot Road. On the left are the four bottle ovens of the Enson Works. This mid 19th Century pottery had a variety of operators, latterly ...
Spencer Stevenson's Enson works, Longton
This photograph was taken at the top of Short Street, just off Uttoxeter Road. The bottle ovens are part of Spencer Stevenson's Enson Pottery between Short Street and neighbouring Chelson Street (formerly ...
Spode pottery factory, Stoke-on-Trent
The Spode company was established by Josiah Spode I in the 1760's and in 2002 is still producing ceramic products at the site shown in the picture.
Whilst the company has modernised the site since this ...
Sponging. Miss Maud Hancock.
Pottery factory interior depicting a female worker in the process of sponging ware.
The photograph was taken at Booth's pottery factory in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
The worker in the picture is ...
Spraying Glaze.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman aerographing glaze onto a ewer.
She is using a pneumatic airbrush.
Aerography was the mechanical spraying of glaze onto pots.
It also helped enormously ...
Spring Garden Road, Longton
Photograph taken from Trentham Road. The bottle ovens are possibly those of the Cartwright & Edwards works.
St James' Church, Longton
St James The Less Church in Longton photographed from the churchyard entrance on Normacot Road. Funded by the Church Building Act of 1818, this church was built in 1833-34, costing around £10,000, to ...
St James's Church, Longton
A view of the area of Longton around St. James's Church, looking south from Meir Hay.
St John's Square, Burslem
This is a view of the west side of St John's Square in Burslem taken from the corner of Wm Clowes Street. Newcastle Street and Market Place are off to the right hand edge. The square has along history, ...
St Mary's Pottery Works, Normacot Road, Uttoxeter
This is the back of T C Wild's St Mary's Works on Uttoxeter Road. This photograph was taken looking north from Normacot Road, from a point now underneath the A50. The house on the right hand edge still ...
St Mary's school and chapel, Plex Street, Tunstall.
This photograph was taken looking westwards along Plex Street from the corner of Roundwell Street (formerly Well Street) in Tunstall. The building on the right was originally St Mary's school-chapel, ...