A Caution! Notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Dispute over ideas
Printed notice from James Keeling regarding an infringment of patent on his oven for firing pottery.
It is well known OUR PATENT
It seems that someone has copied his oven design ...
Association of Fair Trade, 2 Welch Street, Stoke
This building is presently used as offices but was originally constructed as a fire station in 1913. The original frontage had two large decorative brick arches with an ornate central column and datestone ...
Burslem Fire Brigade
The plaque on the fire engine in this photograph tells us that this is the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent Burslem District Fire brigade.
Close and Keeling's Invention - Notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Cutting edge technology in pottery making
Printed notice informing pottery manufacturers of Valentine Close and James Keeling's patented oven design.
The new design promises to use less coal, reduce ...
Engines for Extinguishing Fires - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
A Fire Service for Burslem, Tunstall and Longport
Printed notice outlining the resolutions from a meeting at the Legs of Man in Burslem on 25th February 1799.
At the meeting it was decided to form ...
Excavation for Charles Street shopping centre, Hanley
Excavations and foundations for the shopping centre attached to the bus station along Charles Street and Old Hall Street in Hanley. The large building in the background is Webberley's book and stationery ...
Fire Station, Fenton.
The fire station was built by Fenton Borough Council in 1909, a year before the Federation of the six towns. The bell tower is in the Norman style and the whole structure is of red brick.
The fire services ...
Fountain Place Pottery, Westport Road, Burslem
The camera is looking down Westport road from Fountain Place in Burslem. On the left, Alcock's cycle and television shop used to be the corner frontage to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place pottery works. To ...
Keeling's Patent Substitute for Red and White Lead - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Improved Glazes
Printed notice by industrialist and inventor James Keeling. Here he makes various claims about an improved formula for ceramic glazes, which he has patented.
The glaze is 30% cheaper ...
Keeling's Substitute for White and Red Lead, in Making Glazes - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Patent notice and conditions of use
Printed notice informing pottery manufacturers of a new patented glaze made by James Keeling.
Conditions for using the substitute glaze applied.
Manufacturers ...
Longton Fire Brigade.
Group photograph of Longton Fire Brigade. Taken in Union Square, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections ...
Mechanical Apparatus for Firefighting - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In Enoch Wood's day, factories and coal mines needed more than buckets of sand to put out serious blazes.
The trouble was that there was - as yet - no rapid-response fire service to call upon.
Unsurprisingly, ...
Notice from Ralph Wedgwood - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Glazes and Ovens
Printed notice from inventor Ralph Wedgwood.
He claims to have devised a way of recycling waste pottery to make glaze.
The glaze is touted as being of superior quality to lead ...
Old Fire Station, Burslem
The old fire station was in Fountain Place at the top of Westport Road just along from the entrance to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Pottery. At the time of the photograph it was occupied by Edwin Longmore's ...
Old Fire Station, Hanley
In the foreground is Hanley Fire Station and behind the premises of Webberley Ltd, printers, stationers and booksellers. The camera is looking down Parliament Square towards Percy Street.
The Fire ...
Patent Potter's Ovens - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Protecting ideas
Printed notice informing pottery manufacturers of Valentine Close and James Keeling's successful application for patent on a new oven design.
The new design promises to use less ...
Stoke Town Hall, Glebe Street, Stoke
This building plan is of Stoke town hall on Glebe Street. It was built in 1834 and is now a Grade II listed building.
Diagrams (top to bottom):
- Front of the building
- Ground floor plan showing the ...
T. Rowntree's New Invented Churn - Advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
A New Invention and some Bold Claims
Advertisement for a new kind of milk churn consisting of two almost horizontal cylinders on a stand.
The manufacturer explains the advantages of using this churn ...