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Looking over Stoke-on-Trent from Richmond Street, Penkhull
This was the view east from near the allotments at the bottom of Richmond Street in Penkhull. On the right hand edge is the tower of St Peter's Church in Stoke (Stoke Minster) and the domed building in ...
Looking over the Potteries from Hartshill Bank
This was the view north east from the top of Hartshill Bank (at the bottom of Vicarage Road). The lower land in the foreground is the Fowlea Brook valley with the main railway line running across. Immediately ...
Looking over Tunstall from Little Chell
The view over Tunstall from the higher ground of Little Chell. The photograph was taken from the junction of Little Chell Lane and Scott Road looking south west. The spire on the horizon is probably Christ ...
Looking south from Fenton Manor Station, Fenton
This was the view from the footbridge south of Fenton Manor Station looking towards Fenton. The station was opened in 1889 as part of the North Staffordshire Railway branch lines to Leek and Biddulph. ...
Looking towards Burslem from the Ravensdale area
The camera is looking south east towards Burslem from west of the main railway line at the end of Ravensdale Lane. The water surface of Westport Lake is visible in the left centre with the towers of Talke ...
Looking towards the west from Little Chell Lane, Little Chell
The camera is pointing northwest from the top of Little Chell Lane. The buildings on the right are William Southerne Catholic Secondary School (now St Margaret Ward Academy) and the houses in the foreground ...
Lustre & Rouge Flambe Plaque. Photographed by William Blake.
Print of a framed lustre and rouge flambe plaque with a hand painted portrait of a cleric.
Lustre painted tea wares
Earthenware painted cups, mug and jug. Height of mug 100mm. The two cups are white earthenware, hand-painted with rural scenes in purple lustre. The mug and jug have a red earthenware body that has been ...
Machine for scouring ware, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing pottery workers scouring ware.
Taken at Sutherland China, Normacot Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Scouring is the process of removing rough bits from the surface ...
MacIntyre Street, Burslem
MacIntyre Street runs east off Waterloo Road in Burslem, becoming Podmore Street at the bottom. The Phoenix Works of Meirswann Ltd is at the far end. The company, established in 1871, manufactured colours ...
Madonna and Child figure
Pearlware over-glaze painted figure. Height 340mm. This figure of a Madonna and child was modelled after a terracotta figure by Lucas Faye d'Herbe now in the British Museum.
Madonna and Child figure
Pearlware figure. Height 195mm. Enoch Wood & Sons made many figures for the Catholic market. The figure was excavated at St. Paul's Church, Burslem in 1974.
Majolica plaque
Plaque. 2002.C.446. c.1870.
Earthenware. D : 35 cm.
Majolica plaque by Thomas Kirby of The Roman Soldier, after Andrea Mantegna.
It features the central figure of a man, within a wide border ...
Making Basins.
Pottery factory interior.
The man is making large basins using a vertical jolley.
A jolley was a machine for making shapes out of solid blocks of clay. It consisted of a rotating wheel, a mould ...
Making Cow Cream Jugs. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing a pottery worker in the process of making Cow Creamer Jugs.
Making Cups using a Jolley.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman using a jolley to make cups.
A jolley was a machine for making shapes out of solid blocks of clay. It consisted of a rotating wheel and a levered profile tool. ...
Making steel ingots. Goldendale Ironworks
This photograph shows molten steel being poured into slab ingots at Goldendale Ironworks and was taken between 1950 and 1960. As you can see from the rising steam men employed at steel works often laboured ...
Malkin Tile Company, Newport Lane, Middleport
The camera is looking southwards along Newport Lane with Malkin's Encaustic Tile Works on the right. The large square building in the background is one of the rolling mills at Shelton steel works.
Malkin ...