English Electric test workshop, Glover Street, Stafford
Pictured is John Underhill by a development thyristor valve in the High Voltage Test facility at Glover Street in Stafford. This thyristor valve would be one part of an arm of a bridge on a valve, and ...
English Electric Tool Room, Stafford
English Electric Tool Room 24 Shop. Charles Pearson is on the extreme right. He served his time at Bagnall's Engineering Works in Stafford where his father John and brother William also worked.
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English Electric Tool Room, Stafford
English Electric Tool Room 24 Shop, Stafford.
English Electric was formerly Siemens Bros., who manufactured generators, electric motors and various other electrical appliances. In 1918 Siemen's merged ...
Engraver at work, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior showing a man hand-engraving a design on a flat copper plate. The copper plate would then be inked and used to make a paper transfer of the design. The design would then be applied ...
Entrance to bottle oven, J Steventon & Sons, Burslem
The entrance or "wicket" to a biscuit bottle oven at J Steventon's Royal Pottery in Burslem. The wicket was used to place the ware in the oven. For firing the opening was bricked up and sealed with clay ...
Erecting Shop, Bagnall's Engineering Works, Stafford
W.G. Bagnall Ltd. was established in 1870 in Castle Street. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. Eventually ...
Etruria Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking westwards along Etruria Road before the dual carriageway (A53) was built. This is the line of Etruria Old Road. On the right is the front of Wedgwood's Etruria works with the lanthorn ...
Evode Chemical Works Ltd., Stafford
Spic and Span Shoe Polishes Ltd. was established in Glover Street on 3 June 1932. The company was partly owned by Lotus Ltd., the shoe manufacturers.
In 1938 the company, under the directorship of ...
Factory Dining Room. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with a view of the dining area.
The location is unknown.
Factory interior, Bamford's, Uttoxeter
Interior view of Bamford's works, Pinfold Street, Uttoxeter.
Bamfords was founded in Uttoxeter in 1871 by Henry Bamford and made water pumps, taps and agricultural machinery at the Leighton Works on ...
Factory interior, Bamford's, Uttoxeter
Cast iron parts for agricultural machinery in storage bins at Bamford's works, Pinfold Street, Uttoxeter.
Bamfords was founded in Uttoxeter in 1871 by Henry Bamford and made water pumps, taps and agricultural ...
Factory interior, English Electric Co., Stafford
Mr A. Chatfield turning on a rivet lathe in the Instrument Division at English Electric Co.'s Lichfield Road works in Stafford.
Female Workers, Siemens Works, Stafford
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich with 800 of its employees. The company manufactured generators, electric motors and ...
Female Workers, Siemens Works, Stafford
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich with 800 of its employees. The company manufactured generators, electric motors and ...
Filter press, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior showing two slip house workers using a filter press in the preparation of clay. The workers are disassembling the press to remove the clay. Taken at Minton's factory in Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken ...
Finished Warehouse, Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior with a view of a warehouse.
The women in the picture are checking ware for quality and wrapping it in preparation for leaving the factory.
The woman on the left is checking ...
Finishing Dept., Mason and Marson Shoe Factory, Stafford,
The finishing room was where the edges of the soles were trimmed; the heels and soles were then burnished.
This is one of a series of postcards sent to the wife of an Australian shoe manufacturer, ...
Fire damage at Gold Bros., Brewery Lane, Tamworth
Gold Brothers was located on Brewery Lane, which was off Lichfield Street, and made hinges. The building has now been demolished and flats built on the site.