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Lyme Brook valley and Buckmaster Avenue, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the old Clayton bridle track, looking west towards the back of the houses on Buckmaster Avenue. The Lyme Brook runs across the photograph, marked by the line of bushed beyond ...
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 ...
Madison Street, Tunstall
The building in the centre of the photograph is the old Christ Church National School, built in 1839 and enlarged in 1871. It subsequently became the Parish Hall. Madison Street was formerly King Street. ...
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 ...
Male imbecile ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the male imbecile ward (so called at the time) built in 1894 at Stoke workhouse on Newcastle Road. Workhouses were originally meant to be places where the poor could work in return for ...
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 ...
Malpass Street, Tunstall
Looking north along Malpass Street (known as Hall Street until the 1950s) from The Boulevard (formerly Station Road) in Tunstall. This view has completely disappeared with the extension and widening of ...
Malthouse Road, Bucknall
This photograph was taken from the corner of Ruxley Road looking southwards along Malthouse Road. On the corner is Malthouse County Infants' School and Library, opened in 1877 but now demolished. In ...
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 ...
Mark XVI Spitfire at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Photograph of the Spitfire, which has been on permanent display at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery since 1986.
Designed by local engineer Reginald Mitchell in the 1930s, the Spitfire was instrumental ...
Market Passage, Burslem
Market Passage runs off Market Place in Burslem, giving access to the indoor market (sometimes known as St John's Market). The shop on the right was originally the Home & Colonial Store.
Market Place, Burslem
Burslem Market Place on a dull day, viewed from Wedgwood Street. Burslem's old Town Hall is on the left and the black and white building in the distance is on the corner of St John's Square.
The Potteries ...
Market Place, Burslem
Looking west along Market Place with the old Town Hall on the right. Opposite and just visible behind the PMT bus is the inn sign for The Leopard. This old 18th century inn was the site of first meeting, ...
Market Place, Burslem
To the right is the eastern end of the old Town Hall in Burslem and beyond the civic gardens, the shops on Market Place. The photograph was taken from Wedgwood Street. Where the gardens are was the site ...