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Interior of Alders Paper Mill, Lichfield Road, Tamworth

Alders Paper Mill was founded by Quakers and was in production for about 200 years under various names. The Mill was demolished in about 2000 and housing built on the site. Pictured are steam operated ...

Interior of Burman's Cooperage, Dallow Street, Burton-upon-Trent.

The original firm was called J. Burman & Son, Hawkins Lane, Burton-On-Trent. It was a cask repair firm only. In 1939 they took over J. Grout & Co., Dallow Street Cooperage, which was a firm somewhat run ...

Interior View of the Ale Stores, Joule's Brewery, Stone,

Casks of beer in the New Ale Store, Newcastle Street. The stores were built in 1881. Francis Joule came into possession of the White House Inn and brewhouse at Stone in 1758. Nine years later he ...

Interior view of the Steam Cooperage, Bass, Burton-on-Trent

Intermittent downdraught tile kilns at Wheatley's Springfield Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent

This plan is of Wheatley's Springfield Tileries in Stoke-on-Trent. Tile factories existed throughout Stoke-on-Trent in the 19th and 20th centuries and formed an important local industry. Diagrams (from ...

Ipstones Bank and Bolton's Copper Works, Froghall, Kingsley

Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 there was no more room for expansion at Oakamoor so they began building at Froghall. Major extensions followed in the 1930s, ...

Iris Withington, Cannock

Studio portrait of Iris Averill Withington, aged 5. Born in Cannock in 1905, she was later the proprietor of the Cannock Advertiser from 1929 until 1964. She died in 1984. The Cannock Advertiser was ...

Iron Foundry, Dorman and Co. Ltd., Stafford,

Founded by William Henry Dorman in 1870 on Foregate Street, Dorman's began by manufacturing cutting tools for the footwear industry, but soon began to produce more specialised machinery such as printing, ...

Ironing Room, Stafford Laundry

Stafford Laundry was founded in 1899 on North Street (now Stone Road). The machines on the left were used to polish men's collars, while on the right gas irons are being used for pressing. The laundry ...

J & G Meakin Ltd, Eagle Pottery, Hanley

A group of senior staff photographed outside J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery Works, at Ivy House, Hanley. Left to right: W.Robotham, C.H. Breeze, Percy E. Jones, W. Hamilton, H. Alcock. J.F Meakin, F. ...

J & G Meakin Ltd. Centenary celebrations, Darlaston Hall, Stone

Centenary celebrations for J & G Meakin, Pottery Manufacturers inside a marquee, possibly in the grounds of Darlaston Hall, near Stone. The Meakin family lived here until 1951. Constance Meakin is standing ...

J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery, Hanley

The Ivy House entrance to J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery in Hanley. The pottery opened in 1859 and closed finally in 2004, after absorption into the Wedgwood and latterly producing Johnson Brothers wares. ...

J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery, Hanley

This is the Cresswell Road side of J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery works in Hanley. J & G Meakins was founded in 1851, originally in Hanley. They moved to the Eagle Pottery in 1959, a brand new works built ...

J H Lines, Ltd., Christmas Dinner, Stafford

Members of the Sports and Social Club of Messrs. J H Lines, Ltd., the well-known Stafford firm of engineers, are pictured at their second annual dinner at the Co-operative Café, in Gaolgate Street, ...

J H Weatherby's Falcon Pottery, Hanley

A view north along Old Town Road with the Falcon Pottery building on the right and the winding gear of Hanley Deep Pit in the distance. Safin House, in the centre, was occupied by S Finney & Sons , a ...

J Hewitt Sons works, Fenton.

Joseph Hewitt & Co. operated the Fenton Low Brick and Marl work was alongside the Biddulph Valley and Leek branch of the old North Staffordshire Railway. The line opened in 1859 and was finally closed ...

J J West, Crate makers, Navigation Road, Middleport

J J West & Sons were crate makers for the pottery industry, operating a crate yard in Navigation Road alongside the short Burslem Branch Canal. This was a short (1/2 mile) branch coming off the Trent ...

J Steventon & Sons pottery, Burslem

J Steventon & Sons occupied a pottery in Steventon Place, just off Market Place in Burslem. They operated the Royal Pottery at the bottom of Steventon Place. Established as Brown & Steventon in 1897 ...