Fireman Stoking Calcining Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a fireman stoking a calcining kiln.
Calcining is the process of heating bone or flint to soften it for grinding down into a powder.
Bone and flint powder ...
Firing a Kiln at Minton Hollins.
Pottery factory interior showing a fireman shovelling coal into a kiln firemouth.
Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle ...
Firing a kiln in a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior depicting a man firing a kiln.
Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle oven.
The bottle ...
Fixing Spout and Teapot.
Pottery factory interior showing a man fixing a spout to a teapot.
The teapot was assembled or stuck up when the clay had dried to a leather-hard state, not completely dry.
The pieces were joined ...
Flatware Makers at Gladstone China.
Pottery factory interior with a group of flatware makers posing for a photograph.
The photograph was taken in the flatware making shop at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, in ...
Foreman Bill Davis, Lotus Ltd, Stafford
Bill Davis seated at work bench holding a booklet at the Lotus Ltd. shoe factory on Sandon Road, Stafford. Bill was Foreman in the Finishing Department and had started work with Lotus in 1935.
Lotus ...
Foundry workers, Siemens Bros. factory, Stafford
Workers at the Foundry at Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Stafford in about 1905.
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich ...
Foundry, Bamfords works, Uttoxeter
A group of visiting students watching worker pouring molten metal into a mould at the foundry of Bamford's works, Pinfold Street, Uttoxeter.
Photographer: Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter.
Foundry, W.G. 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 ...
Frank Birch at Dorman's, Stafford
Frank Birch had been with Dorman’s for over 16 years at the time of this photograph. He is seen here operating a Maxicut machine hobbing the teeth on a gear wheel. Unfinished and finished gears are stacked ...
Full Oven
Lantern slide looking inside a full pottery manufacturing oven. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Furnival Pottery. Circa 1920
Women select ware and place it into order in racks. This is probably hotel ware made for general dinner table use.
This would be the final quality control stage and inferior ware would be set aside.
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GEC ALSTHOM, Hixon, Stafford
Employees and managers are pictured in the Test Laboratory area at the Hixon site on New Road, Hixon, as they celebrate achieving the Investors In People Award (IIP). among those in the photograph are: ...
GEC ALSTHOM, Lichfield Road, Stafford
During GEC ALSTHOM’s ownership of the Lichfield Road site in Stafford, several of the old Switchgear Division factory buildings (dating back to English Electric’s time) were demolished to make way for ...
GEC ALSTHOM, Lichfield Road, Stafford
A view of porcelain bushings in a storage area adjacent to the Switchgear Division buildings.
Siemens Brothers purchased the land in 1901 and built the factory and offices which were ready to start ...
GEC Power Engineering Ltd. Stafford
The Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory at GEC's Lichfield Road Site, Stafford.
Left to right: George Maddick, Bill (unknown), Ross Lowry, Bill Fox (in the corner), Graham Guy, Derek Taylor ...
GEC, Lichfield Road, Stafford
This photograph was taken in the Switchgear Development High Bay, on the GEC Lichfield Road site in Stafford, with Brian Duffy working on a generator hydrogen shaft seal test rig. The Stafford Works was ...
GEC, Lichfield Road, Stafford
Left to right: Dave Johnson, Fred Dew, Bernard Fulton, Bill Weaver, Rod Whiteman, Kevin Vaughn (seated), John Elsmore, Jack Smith, Graham Fradley, Paul Capewell, Geoff Buffton, Gordon Shorthouse (standing ...