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Man in casting shop, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior taken in a casting shop. The pottery worker is fettling and sponging a plate with an incised decoration. Tools, brushes and moulds can be seen on the worker's bench. Taken at ...
Manufacturers' Agreement on the Price of Crates - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
While the wholesale price of wares was often agreed across the Potteries, the cost of straw and crates for packaging was sometimes less predictable.
Five local pottery firms here announce their decision ...
Manufacturers' Agreement on the Price of Crates - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This notice was delivered to Mr. Wood of Burslem.
Of crucial importance to local pottery manufacturers was the price of packaging.
While the price of wares could be agreed and standardised, the ...
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Mark from large earthenware bowl on foot, thrown and turned by Michael Cardew and decorated by Henry Bergen at Winchcombe Pottery.
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Spode 'Olympus' backstamp.
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'Wild Geese' mark. Peter Scott for Midwinter.
Market Street, Fenton
The camera is looking west along what was Market Street towards Victoria Square in Fenton. Market Street, with some modification, has become King Street. The properties on both sides of the road have ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marl Hole and Shard Ruck. Photographed by William Blake.
Postcard containing an industrial landscape with a view of the Daisy Bank marl hole and shard ruck, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
These huge holes were created due to the large scale extraction ...
Marl pit at John Caddick's Spoutfield Brick and Tile Works, Stoke-on-Trent
This marl pit supplied clay for John Caddick's Spoutfield Brick and Tile Works on Brick Kiln Lane. Red brick clay in this area is called Etruria Marl and was extracted by opencast mining and the big holes ...
Marl pit, Trent Vale Brick & Tile Company, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows a section of the marl pit belonging to the Trent Vale Brick & Tile Co. This is a view from the Rookery Lane area. The pit yielded Etruria Marl, a brick clay, usually extracted by ...
Marsden's Tiles, Middleport
Mardsen's Tiles works were on the corner of Dale Street and Newcastle Street. This photograph was taken from Newcastle Street, Dale Street runs off to the left. The Marsden Tile company operated from ...
Mayer and Sherrat, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing cup makers in a jolleying workshop. Taken at Mayer and Sherrat's pot bank, King Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
The four people are identified on the original copy ...
Mazda Lamps factory and Mother's Pride Bakery, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The industrial site on the far side of Newcastle Road (A34) had two factories. Farthest away from the camera is the Mother's Pride Bakery. This was part of Premier Foods group. Between the 1960s and ...
Meakin's Newfield Pottery, Tunstall
Alfred Meakin's Newfield Pottery stood on High Street between Tunstall and Sandyford in the area known as Newfield. Just to the right of the photograph were Newfield Sidings, at the end of the Newfield ...
Mearthenware mug
c.1926 -1939
Glazed Earthenware H. 8.5 x W. 6.6 cm
Small narrow waisted earthenware mug, body thrown and turned, handle pulled at Winchcombe Pottery, Gloucestershire, England.
Sprigged motif ...
Mechanical Apparatus for Firefighting - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In Enoch Wood's day, factories and coal mines needed more than buckets of sand to put out serious blazes.
The trouble was that there was - as yet - no rapid-response fire service to call upon.
Unsurprisingly, ...