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Hitchings Potters' Transfers works, Caledonia Road, Shelton

Hitchings ceramic transfer works were on Caledonia Road, off Cemetery Road in Shelton. The company bceased trading in 1964. The buildings still stand and have been converted into student accommodation ...

Holloware Presser - Making Dishes.

Pottery factory interior showing a 'presser' making cover dishes. The boy standing behind the two men was known as a mould-runner. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection. ...

Holsten House, Pinnox Street, Tunstall

Holsten House in Pinnox Street was the home of Walter Sylvester who invented and patented the "Sylvester", a hand operated device, to help miners remove pit props in mines. It was also known as a "Dog ...

Horse figures

Horse and foal figures by Beswick. J.W. Beswick was founded in about 1892 by James Wright Beswick and his sons John and Gilbert. From 1896 it operated from the Gold Street Works in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. ...

Hot Lane and Sneyd Colliery tip, Burslem

A view north east from the top of Hot Lane with the spoil tip belonging to Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks on the right. Crossing the road is the cable of the aerial ropeway which connected the colliery ...

Hot Lane, Burslem

This is the view north east along Hot Lane from just beyond the loop Line railway bridge. In the background is the spoil tip of Sneyd Colliery and just visible, the aerial cableway used to move waste ...

Hot Lane, Burslem

5 Hot Lane, Burslem. Originally this two storey building was built as a public house called The Dog and Partridge. Today its function is that of a scout hut. The ground floor has two large beaded windows ...

House of Industry and Court of Requests - A document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

A meeting is to be held at Hanley Market Hall on Wednesday 5 February 1794, at 11am. A new House of Industry? Gentlemen in the local parishes of Stoke-upon-Trent, Burslem and Wolstanton have agreed ...

House on Clanway Lane, Tunstall

The house in the photograph stood on Clanway Lane, now Adams Avenue in Newfield, Tunstall. In the background are the workings of Clanway Brickworks, adjacent to Clanway Farm. They were part of the Berry ...

Howard Pottery, Norfolk Street, Hanley

Looking eastwards along Norfolk Street in Shelton. At the bottom ate the backs of houses on Harcourt Street. Norfolk Pottery is on the right and backed onto the Caldon Canal, which is just off the photograph ...

Howlett's Firecaly pit, Cobridge

In the foreground is Howlett's fireclay pit and behind the lower slopes of Hanley Deep Pit spoil tip. The Bassey Mine Coal seam outcrops in the fireclay pit and was being worked alongside the clay. The ...

Howson's bottle ovens, Eastwood Works, Hanley

George Howson & Sons were manufacturers of sanitary ware at the Eastwood Works in Hanley. The company started in the 1860s and was finally sold to Armitage Shanks in 1966. The photograph shows the bottle ...

Howson's Eastwood Sanitary Works, Clifford Street, Hanley

This photograph shows the rear of the Eastwood Sanitary Works in Clifford Street. This side of the factory ran down to the Caldon Canal. The works was operated by George Howson & Sons from 1867 until ...

Howson's Pottery on the Caldon Canal, Hanley

This photograph shows the rear of G. Howson's Eastwood pottery works on the Caldon Canal. George Howson's produced sanitary ware in Hanley between 1867 and 1966, when then factory was sold to Armitage ...

Howson's Sanitary Ware works, Clifford Street, Hanley

The main entrance to George Howson's bathroom and sanitary ware factory in Clifford Street, off Lichfield Street in Hanley. The works was known as the Eastwood Works and occupied the land between Clifford ...

Howson's Sanitary ware, Lichfield Street, Hanley

The photograph shows the rear entrance to George Howson's Sanitary ware works in Lichfield Street, Hanley. George Howson set up his Eastwood Sanitary Works in Hanley in 1865-67 backing onto the Caldon ...

Hudson & Middleton's Sutherland China Works, Normacot Road, Longton

The front of the Sutherland China Works of Hudson and Middleton on Normacot Road in Longton. The works are on the south side of the road, opposite St James's Church. Farther down on the left, the building ...

Hunger on the Home Front - A satyrical document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

Wartime In times of war, the fortunes of both tradespeople and townspeople could nose-dive - and in 1812 the Potteries were feeling the intense strain of Britain's long war with Napoleon's France. Soup ...