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Glassworks, Eccleshall, (2)

Crucibles, for melting a sand and ash mixture. These remains of Tudor glassworks were found in Bishop's Wood in the 1930s. Although heavily restored, they are one of the most complete examples of ...

Glassworks, Eccleshall, (3)

This hut was constructed over the glassworks, to help protect the remains. However, it was found to actually be causing damage and was later removed. These remains of Tudor glassworks were found in ...

Glassworks, Eccleshall, (4)

The furnace. These remains of Tudor glassworks were found in Bishop's Wood in the 1930s. Although heavily restored, they are one of the most complete examples of a sixteenth century glassworks in ...

Glastics, works extension, Tutbury

Working in the new extension at Glastics, Trent Valley Glass Works, Hatton, near Tutbury. The Castle Works was founded by George Harry Corbett and opened in Hatton by J.T.H. Richardson by 1871. It ...

Glaze spraying, Taylor Tunnicliff and Co Ltd, Hanley

Glaze spraying at Taylor, Tunnicliff's Eastwood factory, Hanley. The firm was founded in 1867 by Thomas Taylor and William Tunnicliff, eventually concentrating on making specialised pottery for the ...

Glost Placing.

Pottery worker Fredrick Jones who worked at Copelands in Stoke, placing glost ware. He is placing 7" plates in a saggar in preparation for firing the dipped ware. This firing will create a hard ...

Glost Workers.

Group portrait of glost workers. Probably taken at Chapman's pottery factory, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. The picture was taken in the glost warehouse. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...

Goddard Street, Longton

Photograph taken looking south.

Goddard Street, Longton

Photograph taken looking south.

Goldendale furnaces and slag heaps, Tunstall

The Goldendale Ironworks was between the Trent & Mersey Canal and Tunstall Cemetery (off to the left) in the Chatterley Valley. The site is now open space and marked with a piece of public art; "Golden ...

Goldendale Iron Works, Stoke-on-Trent.

Ingots of iron stacked up at Goldendale in the mid 1960’s. The works was situated in the Chatterley Valley near Harecastle Hill. Close to the Trent and Mersey canal and the North Staffordshire Railway, ...

Goldendale Ironworks, Stoke-on-Trent

Goldendale Ironworks was situated on the outskirts of Tunstall, just below the cemetery. In the background is Harecastle Hill and Harecastle Farm, where in the days of the canal boats the women or children ...

Goods label, Frederick H. Burgess Ltd., Eccleshall

Frederick H. Burgess founded his ironmongers and agricultural implement business in Eccleshall in 1900. The business was a success and by 1912 the headquarters had moved to Stafford, with branches in ...

Goods Receiving Department, Siemens Bros. factory, Stafford

Workers from the Goods Receiving Department with saddle tank locomotive at Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Stafford in about 1905. Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road ...

Goodwin's Engineering works and Foundry, Ivy House Road, Hanley

This photograph was taken from the corner of Leek Road looking north up Ivy House Road. The Goodwin Foundry is the large works on the right. The company has been on this site since being founded in 1883, ...

Goodwin's Potters Millers on the Caldon Canal, Hanley

George Goodwin & Sons Westwood Mills site on the banks of the Caldon Canal just off Lichfield Street in the Eastwood area of Hanley. The company was founded in 1848 and had mills at Consall and Cheddleton. ...

Goose Street Gas Works, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Before the late 1700s, light was either natural or came from candles and oil lamps. The advent of gas light meant streets were seen as safer to walk through at night and businesses could stay open later ...

Gordon Hayler's trussing in ceremony, Middle Yard Cooperage, Bass, Burton-on-Trent

To become a fully fledged cooper after serving his apprenticeship, the cooper is traditionally "trussed-in". During the ceremony the cooper has to sit in a beer barrel and old beer and wood-shavings are ...