Smoothing Tool.
Pottery-making tool for smoothing or levelling pressed articles.
Roughly 12cm in length.
The owner/maker's name and the date he made the tool are inscribed on the piece.
The inscription contains ...
Smoothing Tool.
Mass produced tortoise shell smoothing tool. Used for smoothing pressed articles.
Roughly 14cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
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 ...
Spring Valley, Trentham
Spring Valley, on the Trentham Estate, separates Jervis Wood form King's Wood. With Jervis Wood to its south, King's Wood provides the primary background to Trentham lake in the view from the Hall and ...
St George's Day Parade, High Street, Burton-upon-Trent
Cubs and Scouts in the St. George's Day Parade passing along High Street, Burton-upon-Trent. This Image is from a collection of photographs of Burton upon Trent commissioned and assembled by Burton upon ...
St. Edward's Church, Castle Donington, Leicestershire
This view shows the east end of the church as repairs to the spire near completion. On close inspection you can see five workers standing on the scaffolded platforms around the top of the spire.
St. Gregory's, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Church exterior taken at St. Gregory's, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
St. John's Market, Stafford
Market traders' stalls and customers inside St. John's Market. The Market buildings were demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the construction of the Guildhall Shopping Centre.
St. Mary's Church, Swynnerton
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St. Peter's Square, Yoxall
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Staff at Richardson & Son Coachbuilders, Uttoxeter
A group of workers at Richardson & Son Coachbuilders, Wharf Carriage Works, Uttoxeter. Many of the men are holding tools of their trade, including tools for wheelwrighting, leatherworking, blacksmithing ...
Stafford Street, Stafford,
Richardson's Corner. The view is looking down Stafford Street from Gaolgate Street.
On the left is Cooper's ironmongers shop, which later became Richardson's (also selling household goods).
The ...
Staking horse hides, Chapman's Sheepskin Works, Tutbury
Mr W.R. Chapman & and J. McGibbon staking horse hides. Staking is the process by which a skin is stretched, softened and made more flexible.
E.B. & W.R. Chapman's Sheepskin Works, at the Old Mill, ...
Stanhope Gig, Richardsons coachbuilders, Uttoxeter
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Stanhope Gig, Richardsons coachbuilders, Uttoxeter
A Stanhope Gig made in 1902 by Richardson & Son of Uttoxeter for export to Mr C. Tambisi of the Bank of Africa, Lagos, in what is now Nigeria. The certificate in the foreground is for the Silver Medal ...