Chance & Hunt Salt Works, Stafford
Stoking furnaces at Chance & Hunt's Salt Works on Stafford Common. The furnaces heated large shallow iron pans containing brine. The water evaporated, leaving salt crystals.
Brine deposits were discovered ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
workers skimming salt crystals from brine evaporation pans at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Workers repairing iron evaporation pans at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
A worker sawing salt blocks at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Salt blocks being laid out to drain and dry in the hothouse at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Salt crystals being spread out to drain after evaporation at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Workers unloading salt crystals into a railway wagon at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
Workers skimming salt crystals from brine evaporation pans at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water ...
Chance & Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford
The hothouse at Chance and Hunt's Salt Works, Stafford Common. Salt crystals are being packed in sacks or tubs.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water ...
Charles Pye's grave, Baswich Churchyard
The grave of Charles Pye (1853-1929)in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Baswich. Charley Pye was a well-known figure in Milford, and was for many years landlord of the Barley Mow.
This view ...
Chemical Laboratory, Congreaves Iron Works, Cradley Heath
The interior of the Chemical Laboratory at Congreaves Iron Works, Congreaves Road, Cradley Heath. The British Iron Company set up its ironworks at Cradley Heath in 1825. By 1860 there were six blast ...
Chemical works and iron works, Ravensdale, Tunstall
Looking south down the Fowlea Brook valley in the Ravensdale area of Tunstall. The photograph was taken off Ravensdale Road. On the right is the National Benzole petroleum plant and on the left Talke ...
Coffee pot
Ellgreave coffee pot. The Ellgreave Pottery Co. Ltd. factory was on Ellgreave Street in Burslem until the early 1960s, when production switched to Wharf Street.
Collecting carbon, United Lamp Black Works, Four Ashes
Bill Amison and Jack Ward, two of the six Black Gang Men, collecting carbon powder (lamp black) in the largest burning chamber at United Lamp Black Works, Four Ashes in preparation for the next burn.
Founded ...
Collecting carbon, United Lamp Black Works, Four Ashes
Collecting carbon powder (lamp black) in a burning chamber at United Lamp Black Works at Four Ashes. A member of the 'Black Gang', who may be Frank 'Pipe' Jones, is moving the lamp black with a scraper ...
Colouring Doll's Heads in the Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.
Postcard showing paintresses decorating doll's heads in a Stoke-on-Trent pot bank.
On the reverse of the post card it is stated that the image was taken in 1880. However, this date is too early. Blake ...
Comparative Calculations - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
During 1796, a fierce debate was raging in Stoke-on-Trent over controversial proposals to build a new canal.
The new canal promised to link Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire with the Cheshire Canal ...
Construction at Blythe Colour Works, Cresswell
The new Frit Department building under construction at Blythe Colour Works, Cresswell.
The manufacture of underglaze colours in Cresswell began in 1870, when a small works was set up by Pigott and ...