Marl pit, Trent Vale Brick & Tile Company, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows a section of the marl pit belonging to the Trent Vale Brick & Tile Co. This is a view from the Rookery Lane area. The pit yielded Etruria Marl, a brick clay, usually extracted by ...
North Street, Stoke-on-Trent
A view along North Street from the entrance to the railway goods yard. To the left is Cliff Vale Terrace (now part of North Street) with the light of the goods yard to the right. This is now the route ...
Oldfield's Brick Works, Fenton
The photograph shows the fireclay marl pit at Oldfield's brick works, east of Duke Street in the Lane Delph area of Fenton. At the time of the photograph, the pit was being filled in.
There was a ...
Oldfield's brickworks, Fenton
Oldfield's fireclay pit off Duke Street in Fenton. The Bassey Mine Ironstone and Peacock Coal seams outcrop in the pit. These rocks are part of the Coal Measures of the North Staffordshire Coalfield. ...
Oldfield's Brickworks, Fenton
The brick kilns and their chimneys at Oldfield's brickworks off Duke Street in Fenton. In the foreground is the fireclay pit. The camera is looking eastwards towards Longton with the houses in Holly Bush ...
Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks, Fenton
Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks was off Duke Street in Fenton. Originally the brickworks and associated colliery was operated by Balfour & Coin from the 1880s. The colliery closed in the 1890s ...
Peake's Clay pit and shraff tip, Tunstall
The view is from the Roylance Street/Audley Street area looking northwest across Peake's old marl pit. To the right are the backs of the terraced houses at the western end of Nash-Peake Street. Thomas ...
Plaster Mills, Tutbury
The old cotton mill at Tutbury was adapted in 1890 to crush and grind locally mined gypsum to make plaster. It had a direct rail link to the North Staffordshire Railway branch line between Uttoxeter ...
Plaster Shed Interior, Gypsum Works, Stowe-by-Chartley,
Interior of the plaster shed showing the spare pump, open hearth furnace, and gypsum crusher to the rear.
Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. ...
Purbeck Street, Cobridge
The view along Purbeck Street (previously named George Street) from the corner with Leek New Road. There was a row of 16 terraced houses on the north side, with the brickworks of the Cobridge Brick & ...
Ready-mix concrete work, Tunstall
J Batholomew & sons ready-mix concrete works off Nash Peake Street in Tunstall. This was the central depot.The local area provided much of the raw material: sand from the Tean area and gravel from Adderley ...
Rebuilding a beehive oven, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows an intermittent coal fired beehive oven in the process of rebuilding and refurbishment. The kiln was at John Caddick & Sons' Spoutfield brick and tile works on the corner of Brick ...
Redhill Bank Brickworks and Railway Station, Rocester
The land was later taken over by JCB, who built a large factory on the site.
Rosemary Brick and Tile Works, Cheslyn Hay
Emptying a kiln and filling a barrow with fired roofing tiles. Rosemary Brick and Tile Works was situated off Coppice Lane at Rosemary Hill, Cheslyn Hay. By 1900 it was operating under the name of G.W. ...
Slater's Brickworks and Sanitary Ware, Stoke-on-Trent
Johnson and Slater was formed in 1935 to operate the Berry Hill brickworks and Slater's sanitary ware works (Berry Hill Potteries). The works were to the south and west of the fireclay pit. On the right ...
Slater's Fireclay Pit, Berry Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
The fireclay pit or marl hole was part of Berry Hill brickworks (also known as Slater's fireclay pit) and linked to the nearby Berry Hill collieries. John Slater purchased the colliery in 1914 and the ...
Sneyd Brickworks Company's fireclay pit, Burslem
The fireclay pit was north of Bycars Lane. This photograph was taken at the north of the pit, just south of Haywood Road. The Etruria Marl from this pit was used to make firebricks, although Sneyd Brickworks ...
Sneyd Brickworks fireclay pit near Bycars Lane, Burslem
Looking south east over the fireclay pit, and what is today Bycars Lane, towards Vale Park. The area in the foreground has been infilled and is now pitches and sports facilities.
The fireclay dug out ...