Twyford's Works, Cliffe Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
A view taken from Hanley Cemetery looking over the Trent and Mersey Canal, towards the Twyford's factory and bottle kilns.
Thomas Twyford built the works in Cliff Vale for the production of sanitary ...
Twyford's Works.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens.
Taken at Twyford's Works, Cliff Vale, Stoke-on-Trent.
The Trent and Mersey canal can be seen in the photograph.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery ...
Twyfords.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens.
Taken at Twyford's, Cliff Vale, Stoke-on-Trent.
The Trent and Mersey Canal can be seen.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection. ...
Unicorn Pottery, Scotia Road, Tunstall
The Unicorn works on Amicable Street (now Butterfield Place) and Scotia Road date from the 1850s and had passed through a number of hands before becoming part of Johnson Brothers (Hanley) Ltd in 1956. ...
Unidentified bottle oven, Sampson Street, Hanley
An unidentified oven in Sampson Street Hanley. The photograph was taken from Hope Street. The oven was possibly part of John Bevington's works at 29 Clarence Street (Sampson Street was known s Clarence ...
Unigate Dairy yard, Uttoxeter
A creamery was built on this site in 1897. The business rapidly expanded, and at its peak the dairy was producing 13 million gallons of milk a year, which were then turned into butter, cheese and condened ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Factory, Stafford,
Pictured is the Number 5 Factory Offices which contained Sales, Materials and Stores departments on the Universal Grinding Wheel Co. factory site in Stafford. The moped on the left of the picture belonged ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
An aerial view of the Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd. factory on Doxey Road . All the office and manufacturing buildings can be seen, and at the top of the image can be seen the cricket ground, and ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
Part of the drying room with floor grids removed to show the method of heat distribution. Inside Factory No.1 at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1912.
The origins ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
The main office building of the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1937 and demolished early 2020.
The origins of Universal go back to Rooper & Harris Ltd’s Castle ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
A view of the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1912. As the factory site expanded this building became known as Factory No.1.
The origins of Universal go back to ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
Factory No.3 at the Universal Grinding Wheel Co. factory on Doxey Road, Stafford. This is where machining and finishing processes took place.
The origins of Universal go back to Rooper & Harris Ltd’s ...
Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd, Stafford
The Laboratory block at the Universal Grinding Wheel factory on Doxey Road, Stafford, built in 1947. It adjoined the main Office building (off the picture, to the left).
The origins of Universal go ...
Upper Hanley Pottery.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens.
Taken at Upper Hanley Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the ...
V.E. Day, English Electric Co., Stafford
The Meter Shop, decorated for V.E. Day at the end of World War II. Women employees involved in the production of vitally important precision instruments to assist with the war effort.
The English ...
Victoria & Trentham Potteries, King Street, Fenton
This was the main entrance off King Street into the Victoria & Trentham Potteries Victoria Works. Pottery had been made here since the 1800s and the works was once operated by the Mason family who developed ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The Victoria Mill in Stanley was part of Harrison & Son, reputedly the largest ceramic glaze and colour manufacturers in the world in the 1890s. The glaze ingredients were initially ground into fritt ...
Victoria Mill, Stanley Moss Lane, Stanley
The materials yard at Harrison & Son's Victoria Mill in Stanley. The mill ground glazes and colour for the ceramics industry. Although it took "fritt" from the company's Phoenix Works in Hanley, it also ...