Description:Factory interior with a view of workers operating a tile making press.
This image appears elsewhere in the Blake collection and was used for a presentation entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the presentation slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this image reads;
"Tile Making. Clay powder is used, as tiles made with moist clay tend to twist in drying. By cutting a die, filling it with clay powder, and bringing down the weight of a heavy press, the powder is compressed and a dry tile obtained ready for firing. Note forced draught piping to carry of flying dust."