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Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks, Fenton

Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks was off Duke Street in Fenton. Originally the brickworks and associated colliery was operated by Balfour & Coin from the 1880s. The colliery closed in the 1890s ...

Open Meeting of the Committee of Manufacturers - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

During the early 1800s, the pottery industry began to experience growing problems with their wares being "pilfered" in transit. This notice outlines the resolutions of a meeting called to discuss the ...

Orgreave Street, Cobridge

The camera is looking along Orgreave Street, from Waterloo Road, towards the Bleak Hill pottery works. Orgreave Street was formerly Bleak Street and at the bottom was the Bleak inn public house. The houses ...

Ovens at New Hall Pottery, Hanley

The courtyard of the New Hall Pottery seen from Hope Street, with the line of enclosed bottle ovens and the bottom of the factory chimney, on the left. The works fronted onto York Street and New Hall ...

Overhouse Works entrance, Wedgwood Street, Burslem

Looking through the gates into the yard of the Overhouse Works on the corner of Wedgwood Street and Overhouse Street in Burslem. The original Overhouse Manufactory goes back to 1787 and Thomas Wedgwood. ...

Owl Jug

This famous owl jug was made in Staffordshire during the late 17th or early 18th century. The decoration was produced using slip or liquid clay which was trailed on using a technique similar to cake ...

Packing in Crates. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide showing a group of pottery workers packing crates. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A ...

Packing Pottery. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide with a view of pottery workers packing pottery. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A ...

Packing Ware in a barrel in a pottery factory

Pottery factory interior with a view of a pottery worker packing ware in a barrel. The barrel was packed with straw to protect the ware during transport. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...

Painting Dolls Heads. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide showing paintresses decorating porcelain dolls heads. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” ...

Paintresses Decorating China. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide showing paintresses decorating ware. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A small folder ...

Pair of Lion Figures

Pair of pearlware lion figures. The figures are impressed on the reverse 'WOOD & CALDWELL'. Enoch Wood and James Caldwell were in partnership as pottery manufacturers in Burslem between about 1790 and ...

Pair of Minton earthenware vases

Pair of Minton Earthenware Vases, dated 1889, shape no.2427.

Pair of Minton flasks

A Pair of Minton Art Pottery terracotta flasks, dated 1872, shape no. 1614.

Paladin Works, Fenton

The Paladin Works stood alongside the Stoke to Derby railway just outside Fenton Station, off Christchurch Street. The buildings in the photograph still stand today used by several small enterprises. ...

Palette Knives.

Steel palette knives with wooden handles. Used by paintresses in the preparation of colour for decorating pottery. Powdered metal oxide would be mixed and smoothed using the knives. Owned and ...

Palissy Pottery, Longton

Palissy Pottery was on Chancery Lane in Longton, which runs across the middle of the photograph. The large building on the left hand edge is the back of the Empire Theatre which fronted onto Commerce ...

Panorama from Bedford Street, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent

This photograph was taken from just north of the flight of locks at Bedford Street in Shelton. The camera is looking northwards along the Caldon Canal with the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery on ...