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Lustre & Rouge Flambe Plaque. Photographed by William Blake.
Print of a framed lustre and rouge flambe plaque with a hand painted portrait of a cleric.
Lustre painted tea wares
Earthenware painted cups, mug and jug. Height of mug 100mm. The two cups are white earthenware, hand-painted with rural scenes in purple lustre. The mug and jug have a red earthenware body that has been ...
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 ...
Madonna and Child figure
Pearlware over-glaze painted figure. Height 340mm. This figure of a Madonna and child was modelled after a terracotta figure by Lucas Faye d'Herbe now in the British Museum.
Madonna and Child figure
Pearlware figure. Height 195mm. Enoch Wood & Sons made many figures for the Catholic market. The figure was excavated at St. Paul's Church, Burslem in 1974.
Majolica plaque
Plaque. 2002.C.446. c.1870.
Earthenware. D : 35 cm.
Majolica plaque by Thomas Kirby of The Roman Soldier, after Andrea Mantegna.
It features the central figure of a man, within a wide border ...
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 food parcels for miners' families, Florence Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent 1984
The miner's strike of 1984/1985 saw many miner's families experience hardship as no money was coming in either through wages or benefits. Womens action groups set up food centres which packaged donated ...
Making food parcels, Florence Colliery, Longton
During the miners’ strike of 1984-1985 striking workers received no pay or benefits and many families fell on hard times. People donated food to local collection points like this one at Florence colliery ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...