Woodbank Street bottle ovens, Burslem
The old "Red Tea Pot" and earthenware factory on Woodbank Street (formerly Hanover Street) in Burslem. The photograph was taken from the corner of Velvet Street (now no longer). According to Bert Bentley, ...
Longport Gas Works, Canal Street., Stoke-on-Trent
Longport Gas Works was on Canal Street. Originally established as the Burslem and Tunstall Gas Company, Longport was the man gas-making station. Later it was taken over by the City of Stoke on Trent Gas ...
Arthur Wood & Price's Royal Bradwell Pottery, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken at the start of Davenport Street (A5271) just after the Trubshawe Cross roundabout. The Royal Bradwell Ware building belonged to Arthur Wood & Sons, earthenware manufacturers ...
Price's National Teapots, Trubshawe Cross, Stoke-on-Trent
Price's National Teapots factory, also known as Top Bridge Works, from the Newcastle Street bridge over the Trent & Mersey Canal at Trubshawe Cross. This grade II listed building has been occupied by ...
Stuart Ceramic Tiles, Trubshawe Cross, Stoke-on-Trent
The Stuart Ceramic Tile works was on Davenport Street close to the roundabout at Trubshawe Cross. The houses on the extreme right hand edge of the photograph were on Newcastle Street (now demolished). ...
Wood's canal side pottery, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the rear of Arthur Wood's pottery which was originally part of Longport Pottery. Longport Pottery dates from the 1770s and over time became a large works which occupied the east side ...
Wood's old pottery, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking northwards along the Trent & Mersye Canl with Wood's old pottery on then right hand side. This was originally part of the larger Longport Pottery, dating from the 1770s, which was ...
Shraff Tip, Trubshawe Cross, Stoke-on-Trent.
This shraff tip was near Trubshawe Cross, possibly from the Ellgreave Pottery. A shraff tip or ruck contains waste from the pottery industry: waste moulds, saggars and faulty ware.
Looking north over Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera was looking north up the Fowlea Brook valley, over Westport Lake. The embankment running across the middle of the photograph carried the Tunstall or Pinnox branch railway line, which left the ...
Entrance to Shelton Steel & Iron Works, Newport Lane, Middleport
ooking south near the end of Newport Lane at one of the entrances to Shelton Steel Works. The buildings on the right, partly hidden by the Shelton signboard, is Oliver's Mill with its calcining oven. ...
Westport Road, Burslem
Looking from the top of Westport Road towards St John's Square, Burslem. The building on the left edge is the front of Hill Pottery, rebuilt in 1839 by Samuel Alcock. With its ornate front, it was described ...
Wade Heath's Hill Works Pottery, Burslem
The photograph was taken looking up Westport Road from the near the corner of Back Sytch Road (now no longer). On the left is the sign for Hill Top Council Junior and Infants' School which were on the ...
View towards Tunstall from the top of The Sytch, Burslem
The Sytch was the hill up to Burslem from Brownhills. The photograph is looking north east with Westport Road (formerly Liverpool Road) in the foreground. What is now Federation Road would be going off ...
Old Fire Station, Burslem
The old fire station was in Fountain Place at the top of Westport Road just along from the entrance to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Pottery. At the time of the photograph it was occupied by Edwin Longmore's ...
Liverpool Arms Hotel and Bowbell Pottery, Burslem
The Bowbell Pottery (at number 70) occupied the building that once was The Liverpool Arms Hotel on Westport Road in Burslem. Westport Road was originally named Liverpool Road as it was the route from ...
Hill Works, Westport Road, Burslem.
The Hill Works was built in 1814 on what was then called Liverpool road (now Westport Road), the major road through to Tunstall and the port of Liverpool. This area was known as The Sytch. It was opposite ...
Hill Top Pottery. Burslem
The Hill Top Pottery (or Hill Pottery) was on Westport road (formerly Liverpool Road), Burslem, almost opposite the Hill Works of Wade Heath. Hill Top Pottery was at the top of the hill (called The Sytch) ...
Fowlea Brook, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The view south from the bridge over the Fowlea Brook just north of Longport Station. At this point the Stoke on Trent City boundary runs along the brook: to the right is Newcastle under Lyme. On the ...