Aerographing China. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with a pottery worker aerographing china. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Aerographing Ware. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of a pottery worker aerographing a bowl.
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 ...
Aerographing Ware. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide of a pottery worker aerographing a bowl.
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 ...
Aerographing.
Pottery factory interior with a view of women aerographing.
They are using pneumatic airbrushes.
Possibly taken at the Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Stoke-on-Trent.
Aerography was the mechanical ...
Application of Gold Print Transfers.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman applying gold print transfers to ware.
She is applying a transfer of the Stockport coat-of-arms to a bone china tea service commissioned by the Stockport Chamber ...
Application of transfers, Booths' Church Bank Pottery, Tunstall
Ridgway Potteries Ltd., Booths' Church Bank Pottery, Tunstall showing the underglaze decorating shop. The women are applying patterns to ware using transfers.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum ...
Applying Handles to Cups.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman fixing handles to cups.
She is sticking the handles to the cups using liquid clay or slip.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Applying Transfers.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a woman applying transfer prints to tea pots.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections ...
Applying Transfers.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman operating an automatic brushing machine.
The machine brushes a transfer image onto porous biscuit ware in this case.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum ...
Backstamping.
Pottery factory interior showing a female worker in the process of backstamping plates.
The backstamp is the pottery maker's mark or logo.
Taken at Alfred Meakin Ltd., Royal Albert Pottery, Tunstall, ...
Baiting at the last firing, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior depicting volunteer Paul Nibblett 'baiting' or stoking fires at the Sutherland Works, Normacot Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. This was the last ever firing at the factory.
Formed ...
Band and Liners.
Pottery factory interior showing banders and liners decorating plates and saucers.
Taken at Grosvenor China, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Banding was a form of decoration where a single band or several ...
Banding.
Pottery factory interior showing a row of banders decorating ware.
They are painting enamel lines onto the ware using whirlers.
Banding is the term for painting lines around ware using colour.
The ...
Banding.
Pottery factory interior showing a man decorating a tea cup.
He is painting a band around the lip of the cup using a whirler. This is commonly known as banding.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery ...
Barlow family at Highcroft, Rough Close
Charles Barlow (in bowler hat) with his two eldest children and baby Dorothy held by the housemaid.
This is one of a set of photographs of the Barlow family of Highcroft, Windmill Hill, Rough Close. ...
Bert and George Procter, Gladstone China, Longton
Photograph of Bernard, known as Bert (seated), and George Procter, his son, pictured in the Office at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton. The office was described as 'bare and grimy.'
The Procter ...
Biscuit Placing, Shelley’s pottery, Longton
Pottery factory interior depicting a man bedding plates using a setter prior to placing in a saggar and firing.
The setter was a piece of kiln furniture that provided more support than bedding the ...
Broadway, Meir. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Broadway Roundabout and Sandon Road, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and ...