Broomfield House, Etruria Vale. Circa 1910
This photograph was donated to The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery by Mr. William Cooper in 1996. He tells us that this is Broomfield House at Etruria Vale. At the time of the photograph it was the house ...
Elizabeth and Clara Blake, Longton
William Blake’s mother, Elizabeth (left), and his aunt Clara (right), outside the Blakes’ house at Woodside Villas, Sandford Hill, Longton. The Blakes are recorded as living here in a 1907 directory.
Photographer: ...
Elizabeth and Clara Blake, Southampton
William Blake’s mother, Elizabeth (left), and his aunt Clara (right). A cat is perched on Elizabeth’s shoulder. Taken during a visit to Blake’s father’s family in Southampton.
Photographer: William ...
Family group photograph. Circa 1905
Family members sit in a back garden for a formal portrait in the Edwardian period. A keen amateur photographer probably took this posed shot with a plate camera.
A middle class family, the photographer ...
Mines Rescue Team, Chatterley Whitfield, Stoke-on-Trent
Men of the Chatterley Whitfield No.4 Rescue Brigade pose with their latest respirators. Respirators were used to allow rescue personnel locate and help miners who had been overcome by firedamp (methane ...
St. Paul's Cubs, Leek
St. Paul's Cubs in Leek posing for a group photograph in around 1965.
Staff of Queen Street County Modern Secondary Boys School, Burslem.
A group photograph from 1950 of the staff from Queen Street County Modern Secondary Boys School. These names of the men are wtitten on the back of the photograph:
W. Gordon
T. Andrews
G. Betteley
Roden ...
Stoke Ladies Football Team
Stoke Ladies team was founded about five years before this picture was taken. They were not recognised as an official club, but the team did play some important matches with teams from other towns. The ...
Tea Van, Stoke-on-Trent
The Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress, Council Officials and Civil Defence members during the Second World War.
Mobile tea vans like this would have been operated by such groups as the Women's Voluntary Service ...
The Tams family in Lindwall Road, Normacot
Mrs. Clara Tams and four of her six children.