Plate-Making.
Pottery factory interior showing aq man making plates using a jigger.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes the ...
Plate-Making.
Pottery factory interior showing a man using a jigger for plate-making.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes ...
Plate-Making.
Pottery factory interior showing a man using a jigger for plate-making.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a hand held profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes ...
Pleasure Cruises. Trentham Gardens. Photographed by William Blake.
Visitors take cruises on the lake at Trentham Pleasure Gardens, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Trentham estate was home and pleasure gardens to the Dukes of Sutherland from the seventeenth ...
Polishing.
Pottery factory interior showing a man polishing ware on a machine.
The ware is being held against a revolving carborundum wheel.
This process removes any blemishes or roughness leaving the ware ...
Pool at Stanley. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This view includes a couple, pool and house.
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 ...
Portland Vase II. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of a Portland Vase.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately ...
Portland Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Portland Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
An image of a Portland Vase is used elsewhere in the Blake collection as part of ...
Portland Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Portland Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
An image of a Portland Vase is used elsewhere in the Blake collection as part of ...
Portland Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Portland Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
An image of a Portland Vase is used elsewhere in the Blake collection as part of ...
Portrait bust of Alexander Pope
Pearlware portrait bust. Height 240mm. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet, whose works include 'The Rape of the Lock' and verse translations of 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'. This bust of ...
Portrait bust of George Handel
Pearlware portrait bust, height 235mm. George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) was a German-born composer, resident in England. His works include 'Messiah' and 'Water Music'. Eight years before he died he ...
Portrait bust of John Milton
Pearlware portrait bust. Height 230mm. John Milton (1608-1674) was a poet, whose best known work is 'Paradise Lost', which he wrote between 1658 and 1663. This bust of Milton is impressed on the base ...
Portrait bust of John Wesley
Pearlware painted portrait bust. Height 320mm Revd. John Wesley (1703-1791) was an evangelist and the leader of Methodism. Originally a high churchman, he experienced a dramatic conversion and in 1738 ...
Portrait of a clergyman
Lantern slide containing a portrait of a gentleman from the clergy. The identity of the subject is unknown but is possibly Rev. Reginald John Campbell (1867-1956).
He was a Congregationalist minister,a ...
Portrait of Dan Irving. Photographed by William Blake
A portrait of Dan Irving (1854-1924) on an invitation from Longton Labour Church to hear him speak at Longton Town Hall. Irving was a socialist activist, and later became Labour party Member of Parliament ...
Portrait of James Bateman. Photographed by William Blake.
James Bateman, industrialist and banker, lived at Biddulph Grange and created the gardens there during the mid 19th century. He was the first President of the North Staffordshire Field Club 1865-1870....