View towards Tunstall from the top of The Sytch, Burslem
The Sytch was the hill up to Burslem from Brownhills. The photograph is looking north east with Westport Road (formerly Liverpool Road) in the foreground. What is now Federation Road would be going off ...
'Viscaria' Bowl
Clarice Cliff 1899-1972.
Sugar bowl. 1981.P.210. 1934-1937.
Over glaze painted earthenware. D : 115 mm, H : 60 mm.
Earthenware sugar bowl. Decorated with 'Honey Glaze' and an over glaze painted ...
Visit of Sabu to Colclough China Ltd, Longton
The Indian actor Sabu (1924-1963) with employees pictured at his visit to Colclough China Ltd., Longton. Sabu is well remembered for his roles in a number of popular films in the 1930s and 1940s, including ...
Visit to the Royal Doulton Factory by H.R.H. The Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales visiting the Royal Doulton factory on Nile Street, Burslem, Stoke on Trent.
Doulton purchased the Nile Street site from Pinder, Bourne & Co in 1882. In 1901 the company purchased ...
Vulcan Works, Clough Street, Hanley
The Vulcan Works was operated by Swinnertons Ltd (a company linked with the neighbouring Alcock, Lindley & Bloore pottery). Between then two works is Slippery Lane.
The Vulcan Works dates from the ...
Wade Heath's Hill Works Pottery, Burslem
The photograph was taken looking up Westport Road from the near the corner of Back Sytch Road (now no longer). On the left is the sign for Hill Top Council Junior and Infants' School which were on the ...
Wade Whimsies Crocodile
Wade Ceramics Ltd began making small porcelain 'Whimsies' figures in 1954. This is a later example of Wade’s ‘Crocodile’, manufactured as part of a series of 32 miniature animals commissioned for Brooke ...
Wade's Pottery, Greenhead Street, Burslem
George Wade & Sons factory on Greenhead Street in Burslem. The Manchester Pottery and the neighbouring Flaxman Tile Works were known as the Greenhead Works, the centre of the Wade pottery empire. The ...
Wagstaff & Brunt's Pottery, Longton
Wagstaff & Brunt's Richmond Pottery on the corner of March Road and King Street in Longton. March Road was known as Richmond Road until the 1950s. A 1908 advert for the company claimed that this was ...
Washington Pottery Works, Waterloo Road, Burslem
Looking along Waterloo Road towards Burslem with the old Washington Pottery with the clock tower on the left. The pottery site and the buildings to the right have all been demolished, although the white ...
Washington Pottery, College Road, Shelton
Looking north along College Road (formerly Victoria Road) with the Washington Pottery in the centre. Off to the left is Shelton Farm, complete with sheep. On the extreme right hand edge is the Drill Hall, ...
Weatherby & Sons, Town Road, Hanley
The photograph shows two bottle kilns belonging to J H Weatherby's Falcon Pottery. In the foreground is the entrance to James Topham's Cooperage, manufacturing wooden barrels mainly for the pottery trade. ...
Wedgwood's Etruria Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
Josiah Wedgwood's Etruria Works opened in 1769. Importantly, the factory was built on land that Wedgwood knew lay on the route of the proposed Trent & Mersey Canal which was opened in 1777. The factory ...
Wedgwood's Etruria works, Stoke-on-Trent
Etruria Works was opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769, replacing the Ivy House and Brick House Works in Burslem. Built on the route of the Trent & Mersey Canal, just where it would be crossed by the Newcastle ...
Westport Road, Burslem
Looking from the top of Westport Road towards St John's Square, Burslem. The building on the left edge is the front of Hill Pottery, rebuilt in 1839 by Samuel Alcock. With its ornate front, it was described ...
Wharf Street Depot, Stoke on Trent
The Anderton Canal Carrying Company's Wharf Street depot and their butty narrowboat 'Winifred' moored by the towpath between Bridges 112 and 113 on the Trent and Mersey Canal. Across the canal there is ...
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 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 ...