Chemical works and iron works, Ravensdale, Tunstall
Looking south down the Fowlea Brook valley in the Ravensdale area of Tunstall. The photograph was taken off Ravensdale Road. On the right is the National Benzole petroleum plant and on the left Talke ...
Coffee pot
Ellgreave coffee pot. The Ellgreave Pottery Co. Ltd. factory was on Ellgreave Street in Burslem until the early 1960s, when production switched to Wharf Street.
Colouring Doll's Heads in the Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.
Postcard showing paintresses decorating doll's heads in a Stoke-on-Trent pot bank.
On the reverse of the post card it is stated that the image was taken in 1880. However, this date is too early. Blake ...
Comparative Calculations - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During 1796, a fierce debate was raging in Stoke-on-Trent over controversial proposals to build a new canal.
The new canal promised to link Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire with the Cheshire Canal ...
Johnson Matthey & Co colour works, William Clowes Street, Burslem
The camera is looking southwards down William Clowes Street with St John's Church at the bottom, on Woodbank Street. William Clowes Street was formerly called Church Street. The road on the left by the ...
Johnson Matthey's Ceramic Laboratory, Nile Street, Burslem.
Johnson Matthey's ceramic research laboratory was at the top of Nile Street in Burslem. Off to the left is Mayer Bank and to the right of Johnson Matthey's was Holy Trinity Church (demolished in 1959). ...
Keeling & Walker's Offices, Mount Pleasant, Fenton
The ornate early twentieth century office building of Keeling Walker Ltd on the corner of Sutherland Street and Whieldon Road in the Mount Pleasant area of Fenton. Above the oriel window is a tile plaque ...
Longton Aerial View.
Aerial view of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken in 1953, this view shows many pottery factories, bottle ovens and warehouses.
St. James' Church, Gladstone China and Uttoxeter Road can be seen in the ...
Looking north over Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera was looking north up the Fowlea Brook valley, over Westport Lake. The embankment running across the middle of the photograph carried the Tunstall or Pinnox branch railway line, which left the ...
Looking towards Burslem from the Ravensdale area
The camera is looking south east towards Burslem from west of the main railway line at the end of Ravensdale Lane. The water surface of Westport Lake is visible in the left centre with the towers of Talke ...
Sneyd Oxide Factory, Commercial Street, rear of 98 Waterloo Road, Burslem
This building was constructed between 1878 and 1900 and is part of Sneyd Oxide Factory and Warehouse. It consists of one irregular unit with basement and a courtyard to rear. There is a double doorway ...
The Fowlea Brook near Ravensdale, Tunstall
Looking south from beside the Fowlea Brook towards the Talke Chemical Company's sulphuric acid works (left) and the National Benzole petroleum works (right). Behind is the higher land of Bradwell Woods. ...
Wenger's Colour Works, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Wenger's Ceramic Colour and Chemical works offices seen from outside the entrance to Etruria Station. The old Etruria Road runs across the bottom of the photograph with the railway bridge in the centre. ...
Wenger's Colour Works, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Wenger's Ceramic Colour and Chemical Works on Etruria Road, at the bottom of Basford Bank. The works lay between Garner Street and the railway station at Etruria, the signals can be seen to the left ...