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Smoothing Tool.

Hand-made pottery-making tool for smoothing pressed articles. The tool is made from ceramic material and was used to make dishes. Roughly 15cm in length. Engraved on the tool is the maker's name, ...

Smoothing Tool.

Hand-made pottery-making tool for smoothing pressed articles. The tool is made from blue ceramic material and was used to smooth dishes. It is roughly 9cm in length. Engraved on the tool is the ...

Smoothing Tool.

Kidney-shaped smoothing tool for pottery making. This example is made of rubber. Roughly 11cm in length. Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection. This object is now part ...

Smoothing Tool.

Pottery-making tool for smoothing or levelling pressed articles. The owner/maker's name and the date he made the tool are inscribed on the piece. His name was T. Turner and he made the tool on ...

Sneyd Colliery tip from Jug Bank, Cobridge

This is the view north east from near The Jug Inn on Sneyd Street in Cobridge. Sneyd Colliery spoil tip is on the right with the winding gear, chimneys and aerial cableway to the left. Just in front of ...

Sneyd Cricket, Football and Sports Club ground, Burslem

The photograph was taken from the open land at the rear of Adkins Street and shows the football pitch to the left and the cricket ground to the right. the camera is looking south west. The church tower ...

Sneyd Pipe Works, Burslem

Beehive kilns at Sneyd pipe works as seen from the Potteries Loop Line, just north of Hot Lane. The works lay to the west of the line, behind the camera would have been Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. ...

Sorting Tool.

Hand-made iron sorting tool used to 'sound' pottery to test for cracks or flaws. A perfect item of pottery will make a ringing sound, while a cracked or damaged item sounds dull. The process is ...

Sorting Tool.

Hand-made iron sorting tool used to 'sound' pottery to test for cracks or flaws. A perfect item of pottery will make a ringing sound, while a cracked or damaged item sounds dull. The process is ...

Sorting, Sutherland Works, Longton

Pottery factory interior showing a woman sorting china tea cups. Sorting is a quality check on the ware. The woman is checking for any marks left on the ware from the firing process. She knocks the marks ...

Soup cup and plate

Eric Ravilious 1903-1942. Soup cup and plate. 1981.P.128. c. 1953. Lithograph printed bone china. L (sup cup) : 6.2 "; D (plate) : 10 ½". Earthenware soup cup, stand and plate. Decorated with ...

Soup cup and stand

Soup cup and stand. 1980.P.342. c. 1946. Under glaze painted earthenware. H (cup) : mm, D (stand) : mm. Earthenware soup cup and stand. Decorated with an under glaze painted border pattern and ...

Soup plate

White salt-glazed stoneware plate, maker unknown. Diameter 220mm . This octagonal soup plate has a trellis design in relief on the rim. The production of the mould for this plate has been attributed ...

Spark Street, Stoke-on-Trent

The camera is looking eastwards along Spark Street (Park Street until the 1950s renaming) down towards London Road. At the bottom is the frontage of the Minton pottery works with one of the bottle ovens ...

Spencer Stevenson Pottery, Short Street, Longton

This photograph was taken looking north up Short Street from Normacot Road. On the left are the four bottle ovens of the Enson Works. This mid 19th Century pottery had a variety of operators, latterly ...

Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent

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These are scenes taken at the Spode factory in Stoke-on-Trent around 1932. It’s typical of many items in the Film Archive showing the pottery industry. Films began to be made at this time to promote the ...

Spode pottery factory, Stoke-on-Trent

The Spode company was established by Josiah Spode I in the 1760's and in 2002 is still producing ceramic products at the site shown in the picture. Whilst the company has modernised the site since this ...

Spode Rhododendron Plate

Pictured is Batemonii, a hand painted Spode Plate from a series referred to as "The Trelissick Rhododendrons". They were the work of Harold Holdway who designed six large plates in different colours ...