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Fenton Manor marlpit, Fenton

This photograph was taken looking southwest over the marl pit towards Boothen. On the extreme right hand edge of the photograph are two of the floodlight pylons at the old Stoke City Victoria ground. ...

Fenton Manor Station, Fenton

Fenton Manor Station was on the old Biddulph Valley line and Leek branch of North Staffordshire Railway. The station was on Manor Street (then named Albert Street), just off Victoria Road. The line passes ...

Fenton Methodist Chapel, Fenpark Road, Fenton

The camera is looking westwards along Fen[park Road towards Fenton. The photograph was taken from just outside the United Methodist Chapel at the corner of Fenton Park. This chapel was built in 1900, ...

Fenton Parish Church

Fenton Parish Church (Christchurch) is in Albert Square. To the left of the photograph is Fenton Town Hall, latterly used as a Magistrate's Court and to the right, the War Memorial. Christchurch was ...

Fenton Police Station, King Street, Fenton

Fenton Police Station: "The Canning". Fenton Police Station occupied buildings erected by the Improvement Commissioners in 1839 on Market Street (later King Street). The upper storey had a large meeting ...

Fenton Station

This photograph was taken from Fenton Station looking east towards Longton. Opened in 1864 as part of the North Staffordshire Railway's line between Stoke and Derby. The station was closed in 1961 and ...

Fenton Town Hall, Albert Square, Fenton

Fenton Town Hall consists of three blocks; one large, central, rectangular block and two smaller end blocks. There is a datestone in the centre section which reads: 'Laid by W. M. Baker, 5th July 1888'. ...

Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse

This plan is of Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board. The workhouses were frequently ...

Fettling flatware, Sutherland Works, Longton

Pottery factory interior showing a woman fettling saucers and plates. Fettling is the process of removing marks from the ware prior to firing. The fettling of flatware is also known as towing, as a coarse ...

Fielding Street, Boothen, Stoke-upon-Trent

A view south along Fielding Street from the Nicholls Street corner. The terraced houses in this street and the neighbouring Birks Street and Lime Street were built at the end of the nineteenth and beginning ...

Filter press, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent

Pottery factory interior showing two slip house workers using a filter press in the preparation of clay. The workers are disassembling the press to remove the clay. Taken at Minton's factory in Stoke-on-Trent. Taken ...

Finished Warehouse, Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent

Pottery factory interior with a view of a warehouse. The women in the picture are checking ware for quality and wrapping it in preparation for leaving the factory. The woman on the left is checking ...

Fir Tree Farm, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent

Fir Tree farmhouse is just south of Whitfield Road in Ball Green. The farmhouse and it adjoining cottage date from the early 17th century and are grade II listed buildings. A farm has probably been on ...

Fire Station, Fenton.

The fire station was built by Fenton Borough Council in 1909, a year before the Federation of the six towns. The bell tower is in the Norman style and the whole structure is of red brick. The fire services ...

Fireman Stoking Calcining Kiln.

Pottery factory interior with a view of a fireman stoking a calcining kiln. Calcining is the process of heating bone or flint to soften it for grinding down into a powder. Bone and flint powder ...

Firing a Kiln at Minton Hollins.

Pottery factory interior showing a fireman shovelling coal into a kiln firemouth. Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle ...

Firing a kiln in a pottery factory

Pottery factory interior depicting a man firing a kiln. Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle oven. The bottle ...

Firing Pottery. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide with a view of the smokey industrial landscape as pottery manufacturers fire their products in kilns and ovens. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...