Price list for blue printed goods - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Pottery manufacturers would often agree upon a standard lowest retail price for their wares in an attempt to avoid being undercut by their peers.
This price list for blue ware features recommendations ...
Price List for Printed Ware - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This is a list of "prices delivered by the several persons who have subscribed to the same, below which none of them are to sell the following goods after the 24th of June, 1795."
In other words, pottery ...
Primula Vulgaris. Photographed by William Blake.
Study of Primula Vulgaris flowers.
Proposed Commercial Canal - Declaration from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views.
At this time, the committee were taking on a weighty opponent, ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
Prys Courant van Engelsche Aardewere - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Stoke-on-Trent's pottery industry has long been famous all over the world.
Even in 1797, price lists were issued in other languages for the benefit of the export trade.
Dutch speakers, for example, ...
Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.
Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.
Quarry and mine workings, Huntley, near Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
Derelict buildings at the quarry and gravel rocks at Huntley, near Cheadle.
Queens Park Avenue, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Queens Park Avenue, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The entrance to Longton Park lies just to the left of this location.
The park's official name is Queen's Park and ...
Queens Park, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Park scene with a view of the lake and bridge at Longton Park, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafforshire.
The park's official name is Queen's Park and it was officially opened on July 25th 1888 by George Granville ...
R. J. Mitchell's Birth Place, 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane
Reginald J Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire, was born at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, Stoke-on-Trent. ,He then moved with his family to 87 Chaplin Road, Longton, and later to nearby Victoria Cottage ...
Ralph Wedgwood announces advances in Earthenware - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
After "fourteen years Labourious and Expensive Experiment," Ralph Wedgwood proudly announces a breakthrough in the manufacture of earthenware.
Pottery manufacturers are invited to inspect the results ...
Ramshaw Rocks from the Roaches
The view looking eastwards from the southern end of the Roaches. The craggy skyline in the left distance is Ramshaw Rocks.
A photograph by Longton photographer William Blake.
Raven's Tor, Dovedale
A view of Dovedale, looking north, with Raven's Tor (Staffordshire) to the left and Baley Hill (Derbyshire) to the right.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Rectory and Church Tower, Draycott-in-the-Moors
Village scene including the Rectory and St. Margaret's Church tower at Draycott-in-the-Moors.
Photographed by William Blake Of Longton.
Rectory Farm, Checkley. Photographed by William Blake.
The Rectory Farm, Checkley, Staffordshire.