Sandon Rd, Meir. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Sandon Road, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Sandon Road, Meir
Street scene taken at Sandon Road, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. On the left, on the corner of Sandon Road and Gravelly Bank, is the Burslem Co-operative Society grocery shop and butchers. Photographed ...
Sandyford from Little Chell Lane, Little Chell
The photograph was taken looking westwards from the top of Little Chell Lane. The panorama includes Sandyford to the right with the, now demolished, spire of Christ Church, Tunstall towards the left edge. ...
Shard Ruck, Longton
Postcard with a view of a pottery waste area called a Shard Ruck. Taken in the Potteries, Staffordshire.
Shard Ruck, always known locally as a shraff tip, was most probably at or near the Daisy Bank ...
Shelton Old Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph is looking along Shelton Old Road down towards the railway bridge and Stoke Road, where the A500 (Queensway) intersection is today. The cameraman was just round the corner from Hartshill ...
Spark Street, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking eastwards along Spark Street (Park Street until the 1950s renaming) down towards London Road. At the bottom is the frontage of the Minton pottery works with one of the bottle ovens ...
Spring Road and Normacot Road, Normacot
Taken looking south-east, with Ebor Street on the right.
St James's Church, Longton
A view of the area of Longton around St. James's Church, looking south from Meir Hay.
Stafford Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Stafford Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Stafford Street is now known as The Strand.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them ...
Staffordshire Potteries, Meir
An aerial view looking north-east over the Staffordshire Potteries factory site at Meir, with houses on Edenhurst Avenue and Applewood Drive on the far side of the A500. The factory site is now occupied ...
Stone Road (later Lightwood Road), Normacot
Photograph taken looking north-west, Longton Cottage Hospital can be seen in the distance on the right.
Stone Road, Longton
The recreation ground in the process of construction.
Tean. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of Tean, Staffordshire.
The Devil In The Potteries
Industrial landscape taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photography and Design by William Blake.
This design, with its damning caption, is one of many that criticise the conditions created ...
The Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.
A view of Longton taken from St. James' Church, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The postcard is dated 1875 but Blake was not born until the mid 1870s. It is more likely that ...
The view from Grove Road, Fenton
The camera is looking north east from the western end of Grove Road. In the foreground is the old recreation ground in Mount Pleasant and beyond, hidden in the dip, Smith's Pool. To the right hand side ...
The view from Hanover Street, Hanley
The camera was looking towards the west from Hanover Street in Hanley. In the murk on the left are the two winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery with the spire of St Margaret's Church, Wolstanton on the ...
Torquay Town, Devonshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Townscape taken at Torquay, Devonshire.