Burslem School of Art, Queen Street, Burslem
Burslem School of Art in Queen Street. The grade II listed building was built between 1900 and 1924 on the site of an old pottery manufactory. Directly opposite is the Wedgwood Institute. Queen Street ...
Bottle oven and workshops, Packhorse Lane, Burslem.
Packhorse Lane was the original road from Fountain Place to Longport. Enoch Wood's Fountain Place pottery, opened in 1789 straddled the lane. It was closed in 1850 and has been subdivided into a variety ...
The Grange, Burslem
The camera is looking south towards Shelton iron and steel works and the headgear of Wolstanton Colliery. The photograph was taken from the bridge near the northern end of the Grange mineral railway line.
The ...
Potteries landscape from Navigation Road, Burslem.
Bert Bentley was looking east over Burslem from the top of Navigation Road. Just to the right of the bottle ovens is the short tower of St John's Church (a grade II listed building). The tower is the ...
Portland House, Newcastle Street, Burslem
The grade II listed building on the corner of Furlong Parade and Newcastle Street was built in the early 1830s for the Riley family of potters who built the Hill Pottery Works on Westport Road. The bay ...
Norton cricket ground and Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking north east from bottom of Harold Street, Smallthorne before the housing estates were developed. They now occupy the open space in the foreground.
The spoil tip belonged ...
Newcastle Street, Middleport
The photograph shows the view west along Newcastle Street, up the hill towards Burslem. St Paul Street on the left lead to St Paul's Church. The buildings just beyond and along it have been demolished ...
New Street, Burslem
The view northwest along New Street in Burslem. On the left is the back of the Central works of Sadler & Co, one of the leading manufacturers of earthenware teapots. They were famous for their "Brown ...
Midwinter's Stylecraft Pottery, Navigation Road, Burslem
Midwinter's Pottery on Upper Hadderidge, off Navigation Road in Burslem. Although known for tablewares, Midwinter's also manufactured figures and figurines. The Stylecraft range was contemporary animal ...
Midwinter's Pottery, Navigation Road, Burslem
Looking southwest along Navigation Road from close to its junction with Croft Street. Off to the right is Upper Hadderidge (no longer in existence). In the far distance are the faint outlines of Wolstanton ...
Kirk Street, Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent
Kirk Street runs northwest off Ford Green Road in Smallthorne, from where this photograph was taken. At the bottom is Coseley Street. Until the 1950s, Kirk Street was Church Street and Edward Street ...
John Maddock's pottery, Newcastle Street, Burslem
This is the older part of John Maddock's works at the top of Newcastle Street in Burslem. The company has been in Newcastle Street since its foundation in 1830, although this is the older part of a more ...
John Maddock & Sons, Newcastle Street, Burslem
John Maddock started manufacturing pottery in 1830 at a works on Newcastle Street. The modern works in the photograph is at the top of Newcastle Street. The large site was bounded by Woodbank, Wycliffe ...
Gibson & Sons' Albany Pottery, Burslem
Albany Pottery was on Moorland Road opposite Burslem Park and just up from Burslem Station. The neighbouring house is named "Park Lea". The site has been redeveloped.
Gibson & Sons were manufacturers ...
Burslem Public Baths, Moorland Road, Burslem
Burslem Public Baths were on Moorland Road alongside the Loop Line and opposite Burslem Station entrance. Behind was a narrow lane that lead to Chapel Lane. The Loop Line ran under Moorland Road and the ...
Burslem Liberal Club, Market Place, Burslem
The red brick and terracotta front of the Liberal Club building on Market Place in Burslem. There were stained glass windows on the first floor hall and there is a mosaic with the words "Liberal Club" ...
Burslem Town Hall
The western end of Burslem's second Town Hall in Market Place. Opened in 1854, this building replaced the first Town Hall and was built on the same site. Behind to the left are PMT buses parked in Market ...
British Waterways Depot, Burslem Branch Canal, Burslem
British Waterways was the authority responsible for maintaining the majority of canals in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1962 it became the Canal & River Trust in 2012. This depot was at the far end of ...