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Backstamp
Gladstone China backstamp.
Backstamping.
Pottery factory interior showing a female worker in the process of backstamping plates.
The backstamp is the pottery maker's mark or logo.
Taken at Alfred Meakin Ltd., Royal Albert Pottery, Tunstall, ...
Backstamps of Longton Pottery Companies
A selection of backstamps of Longton pottery companies operating during the 20th century. Photographs of backstamps from ceramic items by Peter Landon. Collarge compiled by Bill Webster.
Bagnall Street, Longton
The factories opposite the east end of St James's Church. Bagnall Street was renamed Chelson Street in the 1950s.
Bairstow's Pottery, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent
P E Bairstow & Co had their works in Mount Pleasant, in the area known as Tinkersclough. The company was founded at the end of the Second World War and initially produced bone china "Fancies Fayre". Later, ...
Baiting at the last firing, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior depicting volunteer Paul Nibblett 'baiting' or stoking fires at the Sutherland Works, Normacot Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. This was the last ever firing at the factory.
Formed ...
Balmoral Works, Longton
Photograph taken from near the new railway bridge.
The Balmoral Works were occupied by porcelain manufacturers Redfern & Drakeford between about 1902 and 1933.
Band and Liners.
Pottery factory interior showing banders and liners decorating plates and saucers.
Taken at Grosvenor China, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Banding was a form of decoration where a single band or several ...
Banded decorated jug and bowls
Earthenware jug and bowls. Height of jug 110mm. Banding was used either on its own or in conjunction with other types of decoration. A slip-bottle was filled with slip and the opening sealed with a ...
Banding.
Pottery factory interior showing a row of banders decorating ware.
They are painting enamel lines onto the ware using whirlers.
Banding is the term for painting lines around ware using colour.
The ...
Banding.
Pottery factory interior showing a man decorating a tea cup.
He is painting a band around the lip of the cup using a whirler. This is commonly known as banding.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery ...
Bank Street, Tunstall
Looking north east along Bank Street from close to the corner with Hawes Street (formerly Upper Mount Street). In the far distance is the waste tip of Whitfield Colliery. Towards the bottom of the street, ...
Bank Street, Tunstall
Bert Bentley, the photographer, described this as a typical Potteries scene with "a pottery works, kilns, chapel, colliery dirt tip and terraced houses".
On the left is the United Methodist Chapel ...
Barker Brothers Ltd, Meir Works, Longton.
Barker Brothers (Ltd.), china and earthenware manufacturers, moved to the Meir Works on Barker Street in 1880-1882. The factory closed in 1981.
Barker Street , Longton
Photograph taken looking towards the north-west. St. James's Church is visible.
St. James the Less Church on Uttoxeter Road, Longton. A Commissioners' Church built in 1832-34 to designs by T. Johnson ...
Barlaston Hall Housing Estate under Construction,
The present Wedgwood pottery factory was built 1938 - 1940 on the Barlaston estate, purchased from the Broughton-Adderley family in 1936. The move from the old works at Etruria only took place in 1950, ...
Barratts, Wedgwood Place, Burslem
This factory was constructed in 1819 but rebuilt in 1869. This photograph shows the arch over the main entrance comprising of a decorated keystone, inside which is a recessed stone panel with a stone ...
Bath Street, Stoke upon Trent
From Spark Terrace corner Bath Street runs steeply down to London Road. The van with the Michelin Man on the roof is parked outside the original Stoke Library building. The factory building at the bottom ...