Wheatly's Springfield Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
Wheatly's Brick and Tile company works was established before the 1820s. The Springfield tilery main entrance was on Newcastle Road in the Springfield area of Stoke. Closed in 1982 and demolished soon ...
Wheatly's Springfields Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The stockyard, ovens and chimneys at Wheatly's Springfield tilery. In the foreground are a variety of ridge and roof tiles. The painted sign on the gable end on the right hand side advertises "bricks, ...
Wheatly's Springfields Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The stockyard and storage sheds at Wheatly's Springfield tileries. The names "Romulus" and Seville" over the shed are different types of roofing tiles. In the background are two downdraught beehive ovens ...
Wildblood potbank, Normacot
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens. Taken at the rear of Wildblood Pot Bank, John Street, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent.
Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery, Middleport
A J Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. The works originated as the Mersey Pottery, operated by Anthony Shaw from around 1860, becoming the property ...
William Adams Pottery in Furlong Road, Tunstall.
The Greenfield Pottery in Furlong Road dates originally from around 1818 but was largely rebuilt in the 1920s. It is was built by the William Adams family, a large family of Tunstall potters. The works ...
William Kent Porcelain, Glendale Street, Burslem.
The camera is looking along Glendale Street, off Waterloo Road, in Burslem. At the time of the photograph, Glendale Street was called Stoneley Street. At the bottom is the site of William Kent (Porcelain) ...
William Tatton's Buxton Road Mill, Leek
Leek Carnival procession passing by Tatton's Mill in 1953. The float features an Elizabethan galleon. this building was largely destroyed by fire in 1975.
William Tatton (1837-1904) began his silk ...
Williamson Street, Tunstall
Looking east from Gibson Street towards Scotia Road. Right at the bottom, the bridge carrying the Potteries Loop Line is just visible. The ovens and building on the left belong to Henry Richard's Tiles ...
Williamson Street, Tunstall
Looking east, he photograph shows the south side of Williamson Street. The building in the foreground was occupied by Bradbury Brothers, who supplied paper bags, twine and stationery. The ovens behind ...
Wilton Pottery, Duke Street, Fenton
The building dates from 1905 and has had a wide variety of uses including a teddy bear factory, Quickfit laboratory glassware and the War department from 1939 to 46. At the time of the photograph it was ...
Wiltshaw and Robinson's Pottery, Carlton Works, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent
Wiltshaw & Robinson were founded in 1890, renamed as Carlton Ware in 1958 before the factory closed in 1989. The company produced a very wide range of table and ornamental earthenwares. The Carlton ware ...
Windsor and Elektra Potteries, Longton
The Windsor and Elektra Potteries were on Edensor Road, just before the junction with Clayton Road. This photograph was taken looking south from in front of the old Alhambra Cinema, with Clayton Road ...
Winkhill Mill Company, Swan Street, Stoke
This is a one storey, rectangular factory with a large later extension on the right side. There is a large goods entrance at the front of the building with a loading door at the rear. Modifications are ...
Winkhill Mill, Swan Street, Stoke upon Trent
The Winkhill Mill Company were in Shelton Old Road and Swan Street in Stoke and made cardboard boxes in the 1930s. This part of the mill is in Swan Street. Prior to 1912, the company were in Haywood ...
Wire Mill , Kinver
In the 19th century there were several forges manufacturing bar, rod and sheet iron in Kinver Parish. This mill, on Mill Lane was making iron and steel wire in 1968, but later changed to manufacturing ...
Wolverhampton - Ironworks: water colour painting
Showing the ironworks (apparantly out of town), with four furnaces and a high chimney. There is the distant spire of St. George's church and the tower of St. Peter's Church in the background to the left, ...
Wolverhampton - 'Ketley': sepia drawing
'Ketley (sic) near Wolvehampton.' Showing a bridge over a canal and many furnaces beyond, in the dusk and smoke, giving an impression of an iron-working district. 'H. C. A.,' [Henry Curzon Allport].