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 "The Devil In The Potteries." Photography and Design by William Blake.
Industrial landscape taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This design, with its damning caption, is one of many tha...
 Alton Towers, the ' T'  Drawing Room
Alton Towers was the home of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury. It was built between about 1810 and 1852. This photograph of the interior of...
 Anti-Slavery petition to be organised in Stoke-on-Trent - A notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Once Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1804-5, a new organisation known as the African Institution tried to maintain the momentum of the anti...
 Assembly Rooms, Corporation Street, Tamworth
The Assembly Rooms are seen here with the Volunteer Fire Brigade extending a ladder to the left of the building. The Assembly Rooms were built in t...
 Christ Church School , Stone
Class 5 school group, Christ Church School, Stone. Christ Church Schools opened on Northesk Street in 1887, after the old schools in the Radfords ...
 Cow Creamer
With the fashion for taking tea, coffee and chocolate in the mid 18th century came the need for equipment for preparing and serving it. One of ...
 England Football Cap
An England international football cap awarded to Stanley Matthews for representing England in a match against the Republic of Ireland on 8 May 1957...
 Fete behind St Mary's church, Uttoxeter
This event took place in a field just behind St. Mary's Parish Church in Uttoxeter, which can be seen in the background. Note the Punch and Judy b...
 Friendly Society banner, Oakamoor
exhibition Friendly Society banner for Alfred Bolton Juvenile Friendly Society, probably associated with Churnet Valley Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Oak...
 Gas Mask
A gas mask dating from World War Two. Forty million masks were distributed to the civilian population of Britain in 1939, amidst fears that gas ...
 H.W. Furbank, Garage, Market Street, Uttoxeter
Furbank's garage on the corner of Market Street and Spiceal Street.
 Knotty Rail Motor
Early attempts at motorising the railways met with varying degrees of success. Built by Beyer & Peacock, the Knotty Rail Motor combined a locomo...



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