Wedgwood factory, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph of Wedgwood's original factory next to the Trent and Mersey canal in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent was taken in 1929. The factory was a site of real innovation and invention but was disused ...
Village store and coffee house, Oakamoor
During the 1890s, this building doubled as both a village store and coffee house, serving the village of Oakamoor.
It must have been quite a novelty for such a small village to have a coffee house; ...
The bottom of Basford Bank, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking northwards from Etruria Road close to the bottom of Basford Bank towards Wolstanton Colliery. On the skyline are the houses in May Bank, built from the 1920s onwards.
The foreground is a jumble ...
Winnothdale, near Cheadle
A conifer plantation at Winnothdale, near Cheadle.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
The Grove, Gravelly Bank, Lightwood
Village scene including a large country house and country lane. The location is thought to be Gravelly Bank, Lightwood.
Photographed by William Blake.
Rushton railway station
No sign of any trains as a mother and her sons wait at Rushton station on a warm day in the early 1960s.
Beyond the station platform, the level crossing remains open to road traffic.
This line once ...
Papering china, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a woman wrapping ware with tissue paper. This was part of the packing process and protected the delicate ware whilst in transport.
Possibly taken in the warehouse ...
Handshake at Rushton station
On a wet day at Rushton, station staff and footplate crew exchange a friendly handshake.
This could have been a retirement handshake, or a goodbye handshake due to closure of the station. Who knows?
A ...
Pottery Worker "Finishing a Saggar." Photographed by William Blake.
Pottery Worker "Finishing a Saggar". Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” ...
Hanley Public Market on Tontine Street, Hanley
Before moving to the Potteries Shopping Centre, Hanley Public Market was in the old meat market on Tontine Street. This photograph shows the entrance on Tontine Street in the days before traffic was banned. ...
Townsend Infants’ School, Bucknall
Townsend Infants' School was on a large piece of land at the junction of Eaves Lane and Werrington Road the photograph shows the nursery department. Opened in 1949, the school has been rebuilt as the ...
Penkhull Church School, Penkhull
The Church School in Penkhull stood at the top of Trentham Road (now Trent Valley Road), just south of the church. It was known as St Thomas's School in the 1880s. Originally opened as a mixed National ...
Heron Cross Infants’ School, Fenton
This school was on Claud Street, just off Grove Road in Heron Cross. The building dates from 1911/12 and was formerly a Wesleyan Methodist School. The lamp standard in the foreground still has the old ...
Uttoxeter Road, Normacot
The vehicle on the extreme left is parked outside The Station Hotel which was on the corner of Uttoxeter Roaf (now the A50) and Station Road (now Recreation Road). The zebra crossing was on Uttoxeter ...
The Vine Inn and Vine Street, Hanley
Vine Street ran between Bethesda Street and Lichfield Street in Hanley. This is a view towards the Lichfield Street end. Vine Street and its buildings were demolished with the building of the Crown Court ...
Port Vale Football Club, Burslem
Looking towards the Lorne Street side of Vale Park from the Hamil Road end. At then far end is the Bycars Stand.
Vale Park was completed in 1950, becoming the club's fifth ground when it moved from ...
Coombes Valley, near Cheddleton
View looking south-east across Coombes Valley, near Cheddleton, looking towards Sharpcliffe. Clough Meadow Cottage can be seen far left. The valley is now a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) ...
Coombes Valley, near Cheddleton
View looking east across Coombes Valley, near Cheddleton, looking towards Sharpcliffe. Clough Meadow Cottage can be seen far left. The valley is now a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) ...