Queen's Cinema Palace, Jupiter Street. Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent
This cinema was on the north side of Jupiter Street (formerly King Street South) near the corner of Mars Street, just off Ford Green Road. Around the time this photograph was taken, the Palace became ...
Building the City Central Library, Bethesda Street, Hanley
This photograph was taken during the early stages of the building of the City Central Library and Archives in Bethesda Street. On the left is the chimney attached to the boiler house and on the right ...
City Central Library and Art Gallery & Museum, Bethesda Street, Hanley
This photograph is looking over the foundations of the City Central Library and Archives building towards the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. This photograph was taken in 1968, before the museum building ...
Fireclay pit off Waterloo Road, Cobridge
A typical North Staffordshire "heaps 'n holes" photograph from the 1960s. The pit belonged to the Brookfield Brick and Saggar Works, dating from the 1870s, and behind is a spoil tip from Hanley Deep Pit ...
Bert and George Procter, Gladstone China, Longton
Photograph of Bernard, known as Bert (seated), and George Procter, his son, pictured in the Office at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton. The office was described as 'bare and grimy.'
The Procter ...
Enson Pottery Works, Longton
This is the Enson Pottery works sited between Chelson Street (formerly Bagnall Street) and Short Street in Longton. The works is just off Normacot Road. The buildings in the photograph date from the middle ...
Oliver Road and the old St Peter's School, Penkhull
Looking east along Oliver Road from just off Hilton Road. In the background are the recent buildings of St Peter's School, which was on Queen's Road in Penkhull. The school closed in 2011 and lay empty ...
St. Margaret's Church, Draycott-in-the-Moors
Church interior taken at St. Margaret's Church, Church Lane, Draycott, Staffordshire.
The church appears to be decorated for a celebration of some kind.
Photographed by William Blake of Longton
The price of straw - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
One matter of special concern to pottery manufacturers was the rising price of the straw used to package their wares. Here, Chairman of the Staffordshire Potters, Ambrose Smith, announces that they will ...
Agreement on the price of straw - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
While pottery manufacturers could agree on a standard list of prices for their wares, the cost of packaging was less predictable.
In this agreement, local manufacturers complain of the "loss and detriment" ...
Aquinas Street, Stoke upon Trent
View from near the top of Aquinas Street down towards Epworth Street and the centre of Stoke. Aquinas Street was originally called Thomas Street. Behind the wall beyond the houses on the left was a large ...
Heybridge, Lower Tean
Samuel Philips (died 1824) bought Heybridge in about 1813 and greatly extended an existing stone built farmhouse. Samuel was part of the J. & N. Phillips textile business who owned nearby Tean Hall Mills. ...
Porch at Whitmore Hall
The porch to Whitmore Hall, which despite the datestone of 1676, was built in 1847.
Whitmore Hall is a timber-framed house encased in brick in 1676. It is the home of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family ...
Whitmore Hall
Whitmore Hall is a timber-framed house encased in brick in 1676. It is the home of the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family and the estate has been owned by the Mainwarings and their ancestors for over 900 years. ...
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
Lantern slide containing a view of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Beeston Tor, Manifold Valley
The limestone cliff face of Beeston Tor with the dry bed of the River Manifold in the foreground. This area is now part of the Peak District National Park.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Labour Day Demonstration, Normacot, Longton
A procession during Labour Day demonstrations in Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent in 1906.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Cookshill Mill, Caverswall
A view of the River Blithe and Cookshill Mill at Caverswall. The fields at the rear of the mill were known as 'The Honesty Fields' as they were full of the the plant Lunaria Annua. The chimneys of the ...