Preparing Clay.
Pottery factory interior showing workers preparing clay in a slip house.
The man on the left is working on a filter press. The man on the right is using a pug mill.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery ...
Price list for blue printed goods - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Pottery manufacturers would often agree upon a standard lowest retail price for their wares in an attempt to avoid being undercut by their peers.
This price list for blue ware features recommendations ...
Price List for Printed Ware - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This is a list of "prices delivered by the several persons who have subscribed to the same, below which none of them are to sell the following goods after the 24th of June, 1795."
In other words, pottery ...
Primula Vulgaris. Photographed by William Blake.
Study of Primula Vulgaris flowers.
Prince Charles, City Museum & art Gallery, Hanley
Prince Charles officially opened the City Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley on June 3rd 1981. Many people came to the museum in hope of getting a glimpse of him. He his pictured here taking a brief moment ...
Printer at a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior with a view of a potter's printer at work. He is printing transfers using a 'press print' and an engraved copper plate. Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue ...
Printers at work, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view inside a print workshop. They are printing transfers using a 'press print' and an engraved copper plate. Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue paper ...
Printers at Work.
Pottery factory interior taken in a print workshop.
The printers are making transfers using engraved copper plates.
Ink from the engraving is pressed onto very thin tissue paper using a press called ...
Printing and Applying Transfers.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a print shop.
A line of presses print transfers as women apply the prints to ware.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Private Herbert Lewis, 5041117 North Staffordshire Regiment. Born 1894
Herbert Lewis was born in 1894 in Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He joined the army in 1916. He served in France, Gibraltar, Constantinople and India. He married on 16th February 1929. ...
Private John 'Jack' Joyce, 212681 Royal Army Service Corps. Born 1909
John was born 6th October 1909 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He married Elleanor Annie Thorley, pictured with two of their sons, on 26th September 1942. John and Elleanor had six children.
John ...
Proposed Commercial Canal - Declaration from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views.
At this time, the committee were taking on a weighty opponent, ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
Prys Courant van Engelsche Aardewere - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Stoke-on-Trent's pottery industry has long been famous all over the world.
Even in 1797, price lists were issued in other languages for the benefit of the export trade.
Dutch speakers, for example, ...
Public Dinner - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Organising a Public Dinner for the local volunteer corps
Hand-written letter seeking subscriptions from local businessmen for a public dinner in honour of the Longport Volunteer Corps "return from ...
Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.
Quaint Wedgwood Vase. Photographed by William Blake.
Colour tinted print of a Wedgwood Vase from the collection at Burslem Museum.