Jiggering Workshop, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a jiggering workshop. The picture includes the caption "Jolliers Making Saucers and Plates" but this process is normally known as jiggering. The jiggerers are making ...
Jiggering at Gladstone Pottery, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view inside a flatmaking workshop.
The worker is seated at a jiggering bench.
Jiggering was a way of fashioning flat wares using a combination of moulds and profile ...
Mayer and Sherrat, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing cup makers in a jolleying workshop. Taken at Mayer and Sherrat's pot bank, King Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
The four people are identified on the original copy ...
Queen’s Head, Queen Street, Burslem
The Queen's Head public house stood at 5, Queen Street, Burslem, which was formerly known as Lower Street. The date stone states that it was constructed in 1885.
At the time of this photograph, it ...
Express at Whitmore troughs
A Birmingham to Manchester express train takes on water at Whitmore troughs in Spring 1933.
Many steam engines' tenders were fitted with scoops, allowing them to replenish their water supplies from ...
Water troughs at Whitmore
A Colwyn Bay to Walsall express train passes over the water troughs at Whitmore in the Autumn of 1933.
Many steam engines were fitted with scoops on their tenders, allowing them to replenish their ...
Albion Street, Longton
Derelict property on Albion Street, Longton. Photograph taken from Normacot Road.
The Queens, 268 Waterloo Road, Burslem
The Queens public house was constructed between 1832 and 1878. At the time of this photograph, it was described as having a front central double door with stone step and gothic arched light, a stone architrave ...
Bobo's Nightclub, 14-16 Westport Road, Burslem
Bobo's Nightclub stood on Westport Road in Burslem. This three-storey building was constructed between 1851 and 1878 and was three rooms wide by two rooms deep. On the extreme right is a glimpse of the ...
Duke of Bridgewater, Station Street, Longport, Burslem
The Duke of Bridgewater public house is a Grade II listed building constructed before 1832 and stands on Station Street, Longport, Burslem.
At the time of this photograph the pub was still trading ...
Book Illustration. Photographed by William Blake.
Book illustration. Unknown location - possibly Gainsborough Old Hall, Lincolnshire.
Additional information kindly supplied by Helen Daniel.
Children's day out, Kidsgrove
During the 1984 - 1985 miner's strike there were ten women’s action groups in north Staffordshire who supported the striking miners. They ran food centres, organised collections, manned picket lines and ...
Comb Mill, Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire
The Comb Mill was one of a complex of mill buildings on the River Wye at Ashford-in-the-Water known as Marble Mill. They were built in 1748 by Henry Watson and were working up to 1905. The Marble Mill ...
Greyhound, Manor Court Street, Penkhull
This public house consists of two storeys, a cellar and backyard. It was constructed between 1832 and 1878 with a later one storey extension at the rear. Original outbuildings have been destroyed.
Remembering ...
Beech Caves
Beech caves are man-made caves close to the hamlet of Beech where sandstone was quarried for local use. The 1879 Ordnance Survey map shows the area as an 'Old Quarry', as by then it no longer used. In ...
Longton Y.S.L., Swimming Baths, Longton
A group of children with adults, named in the photograph caption as ‘Longton Y.S.L.’ pictured outside the gates to the Corporation Yard at the rear of Longton Swimming Baths, which is the large building ...
Birchendale, 3 St. John’s Square, Burslem
Birchendale's shop, an ornate three storey building, with a datestone of 1882.
Constructed in red facing flemish bond, with a pitched tiled roof, decorative ridge tiles and two red staged stacks. The ...
Hutchinson Memorial School, Checkley
View of the Hutchinson Memorial CE School, Uttoxeter Road, Checkley. It was built in 1879.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.