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1812 List of the Poor Relieved by the Parish of Burslem - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In the early 1800s the Parish of Burslem was responsible for organising poor relief for the townspeople.
Local printer John Tregortha regularly produced an account of all out-of-work potters in the ...
1813 Report of the State of the Poor in the Parish of Burslem - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This document provides an account of benefit payments in Burslem at the end of January 1813.
In 1811, the town's population had been 8,625.
In January 1813, 1,335 of these were receiving relief ...
1813 Report of the State of the Poor in the Parish of Burslem - Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This list, compiled by Burslem's Parish Churchwardens, reveals some of the town's unemployment problems in the period around Christmas 1812 and January of the following year.
The rates
'Rates' collected ...
1813 Report on the State of the Poor in the Parish of Burslem - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This document provides an account of benefit payments in Burslem at the end of January 1813.
In 1811, the town's population had been 8,625.
In January 1813, 1,335 of these were receiving relief ...
1836 election document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook - "Beware of the Destructives"
This notice calls upon the electors of Stoke-on-Trent not to promise their votes to any aspiring Member of Parliament just yet.
Who should they vote for?
The author urges them to wait until they ...
2 Sneyd Street, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the terraced house at no.2 Sneyd Street in Cobridge. The house backs onto the Market Tavern pub; there was once a door between the two but it has been bricked up.
Diagrams (clockwise ...
263 Hartshill Road, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of 263 Hartshill Road. The building is one of the Minton cottages, built in 1857 by the Minton pottery factory for its employees. The houses still stand today overlooking Hartshill Park.
Diagrams ...
29 Lichfield Street, Hanley
This is the Adam's Sewing Machine (sales and repairs) shop at 29 Lichfield Street in Hanley. Bert Bentley thought this must have been the smallest shop in The Potteries. The shop was in the northern part ...
48 Broad Street, Hanley
In the 1960s, number 48 Broad Street was occupied by Gestetner, a company that manufactured duplication and reproducing machines in the days before photocopiers. Gestetnering involved making a stencil ...
A Bit Thick for Father Christmas In the Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial landscape with the caption "A Bit Thick for Father Christmas In the Potteries". Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Despite an obvious pride in many of the aspects of the pottery ...
A Caution - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In the late 1700s, an Association of Pottery Manufacturers would periodically adopt a standard list of prices to ensure that one business could not undercut its neighbour.
This practice brought occasional ...
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 ...
A collection of spoil tips.
The view south from the Bemersley Green area with Chatterley Whitfield Colliery spoil tip in the foreground. Beyond that,
almost in line, are the tips of Sneyd Colliery, Hanley Deep Pit and Fenton. ...
A few Observations on the Distressed State of our Manufacturers, and the Cause of that Distress - the Orders in Council. A document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In the years leading up to 1812, a struggle was underway to preserve livelihoods and industry in the Potteries.
One government decision could make all the difference, but would it all come too late?
Ruin
Years ...
A G Richardson's Britannia Pottery, Cobridge
A G Richardson's Britannia Pottery stood at the junction of North Road and Leek New Road in Cobridge. Behind the works is the spoil tip of Sneyd Colliery (now Sneyd Hill Park). The office building still ...
A J Wilkinson's Pottery, Irwell Street, Middleport
The front entrance to A J Wilkinson's Pottery in Irwell Street (formerly West Street). West Street was at the bottom of Prospect Street, close to the Trent & Mersey Canal, off Newport Lane. West Street, ...
A view from Greenway Hall, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view from Greenway Hall Road. In the foreground are the nurseries of A.P. Matthews with the 1920's bungalows along one side of Nursery Avenue leading up towards the new houses which were built ...
A view from Hartshill Park, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north east from the end of Vicarage Road at the entrance to Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The middle of the photograph is dominated by the gas holders and buildings of Etruria ...