MouldmakingTools. Calipers.
Mouldmaker's calipers.
Roughly 15cm in length.
Used in the process of producing plaster moulds for pottery making.
Mouldmakers would transfer measurements using calipers.
These calipers were ...
MouldmakingTools. Calipers.
Mouldmaker's calipers.
Roughly 35cm in length.
Used in the process of producing plaster moulds for pottery making.
Mouldmakers would transfer measurements using calipers.
These calipers were ...
MouldmakingTools. Knife.
Mouldmaker's knife.
Used in the process of producing plaster moulds for pottery making.
Made from a metal blade, this knife has been sharpened to form a curved pointed blade.
Roughly 13cm in ...
Old Hanford
This is a photograph of a postcard showing Hanford village with four ladies in a dog cart. The sign outside the shop reads "(Agent for) Perth Dye Works" and is possibly Mrs Finney's Drapers shop.
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 ...
Phoenix Works, Longton
Pottery factory exterior including chimney and bottle kilns. Taken at the Phoenix pottery works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Longton railway station can be seen in the foreground.
Taken from the Gladstone ...
Plate Maker. Photographed by William Blake.
Portrait of a plate maker at work.
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 containing approximately ...
Potter's Printer. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of a pottery manufacturers print workshop including four print shop workers.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire ...
Pottery crates at J J West, Crate makers, Navigation Road, Middleport
Crate making was an important ancillary trade for the pottery industry. Crate yards were usually small companies, but very important in reducing losses through transport breakages of finished pottery. ...
Pottery factory exterior.
Pottery factory exterior and bottle kilns.
It is believed that this is a view of the Portmerion works as seen from Sturgess Street, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Pottery factory exterior.
Pottery factory exterior with a view of two calcining ovens.
Taken at Werrington Road, Stoke-on-Trent shortly before demolition in 1974.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection. ...
Pottery Factory Exterior.
Pottery factory exterior, bottle kilns and chimneys.
Taken at a pot bank on the junction of Kingcross Street and Chancery Lane, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Photograph taken before 1977.
Taken from ...
Price Brothers' National Teapot Factory.
Factory exterior and bottle oven taken at Price Brothers' National Teapot Factory, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent.
The factory was situated on the Trent and Mersey Canal, which can be seen in the foreground. ...
Price's Pottery Factory.
Pottery factory exterior and bottle kiln.
Taken at Price's pottery factory in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent.
This view includes the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum ...
Printer's Notebooks.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
These objects are now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.
Printing Tools.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
These objects are now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.
Printing Tools. Boss.
Excess colour was removed from the engraved copper plate using this tool.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.
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Printing Tools. Dabber.
Colour was worked into the engraved copper plate using this tool.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.
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