Leigh. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Lower Leigh, Staffordshire.
The scene includes a public house called the Railway Inn, a motor car, a workshop and worker.
Letters on the Management of Shelton Mines 1 - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Unrest at Shelton Mines!
This booklet contains correspondence in the form of two letters between a mining agent at Shelton Mines and the mine owner's auditor of accounts.
The mining agent has come ...
Marking Tool.
Potter's marker or backstamp.
This fired earthenware stamp, with a banjo-shaped head, was used to mark unfired ware with the maker's stamp for date or payment purposes.
Roughly 6cm in length.
Taken ...
Marking Tool.
Slate marking-tool with a sharpened point.
It has "42s" inscribed on it and was probably used to scratch marks into unfired clay for date or payment purposes.
Roughly 3.5cm in length.
Taken ...
Middleport Pottery.
Pottery factory exterior, chimney and bottle oven, taken at Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent.
Allotments and greenhouses can be seen in the foreground.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from wood.
It is a pottery-making tool used for modelling soft clay. Roughly 30cm in length.
This tapered tool has a smooth rounded body and a flattened rounded head at each ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from wire with a wooden handle.
This pottery making tool has two different shaped ends made from stout wire. These are bound to the handle with thin wire.
Roughly 25cm in length.
11-1 ...
Modelling Tool.
Potter's box wood modelling tool.
This tool has a rounded plain blade at each end.
Made by Mr W. T. Grindley and used by him whilst modelling at T. C. Wild's Royal Albert Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Roughly ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from wire with a wooden handle.
This pottery making tool has two different shaped ends made from stout wire. These are bound to the handle with thin wire.
Roughly 12cm in length.
The ...
Modelling Tool.
Potter's box wood modelling tool.
Made by Mr W. T. Grindley and used by him whilst modelling at T. C. Wild's Royal Albert Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Roughly 30cm in length.
Taken from the ...
Modelling Tool.
Potter's box wood modelling tool.
Both ends are rectangular blades. One is grooved, the other plain.
Made by Mr W. T. Grindley and used by him whilst modelling at T. C. Wild's Royal Albert Works, ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from wood.
This tapered pottery-making tool has a smooth rounded body and a flattened rounded head at each end.
It is roughly 30cm in length.
It was used by a modeller named ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from wood.
This tapered pottery-making tool has a smooth rounded body and a flattened rounded head at each end. It is 23cm in length.
It was used by a modeller named Arthur Credlington ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from wood.
This tapered pottery-making tool has a smooth rounded body and a flattened rounded head at each end.
It is roughly 30cm in length.
It was used by a modeller named ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from box wood.
It is a pottery-making tool used for modelling soft clay. Roughly 30cm in length.
This example has two ends, one smooth and one patterned. The tool's handle is ...
Modelling Tool.
Modelling tool made from box wood.
It is a pottery-making tool used for modelling soft clay. Roughly 30cm in length.
The handle of the tool has the name W H MALKIN inscribed on it.
Taken from ...
Modelling Tools. Calipers.
Modeller's calipers.
Pottery-making tool used to transfer modelling measurements.
The tool is rougthly 37cm in length and consists of two wooden shafts, each with a curved metal tip.
A wing nut ...
Modelling Tools. Dividers.
Pair of plated dividers with screw adjustment.
Used by donor, modeller Arthur Credlington at Beswicks, Gold Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Roughly 14cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone ...