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Group Portrait of Pottery Workers.

Group portrait of pottery workers. The portrait includes turners, throwers, attendants, cup handlers and spongers outside Sampson Smith's Factory, Barker Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Taken from ...

Gypsum Mine horses, Fauld

Horses used by Peter Ford & Co. at their Gypsum Mine at Fauld, near Tutbury. Mining at Fauld began in the 19th century. By the 1890s there were two companies mining at Fauld: Peter Ford & Co. and ...

Gypsum Mine, Fauld

Placing explosive charges in a seam of gypsum. Mining at Fauld began in the 19th century. By the 1890s there were two companies mining at Fauld: Peter Ford & Co. and J.C. Staton & Co. John Clark ...

Gypsum Mine, Fauld

Removing gypsum from the rock face. The bed of gypsum mined at Fauld is up to 3.5m thick and is 60 to 100m below ground. The mine workings reach as far south as Rangemore and Tatenhill. Mining at ...

Gypsum Mine, Fauld

Gypsum ready for removal following blasting. Around 196 tonnes of rock and a 3.8m advance have resulted from this blasting. The entrance to Staton's Gypsum Mine at Fauld, near Tutbury. A locomotive ...

Gypsum Mine, Fauld

The entrance to Staton's Gypsum Mine at Fauld, near Tutbury. Mining at Fauld began in the 19th century. By the 1890s there were two companies mining at Fauld: Peter Ford & Co. and J.C. Staton & Co. ...

Gypsum Mine, Fauld

The entrance to Staton's Gypsum Mine at Fauld, near Tutbury. A locomotive is seen hauling large blocks of gypsum (calcium sulphate). Mining at Fauld began in the 19th century. By the 1890s there ...

Gypsum Works Buildings, Stowe-by-Chartley,

Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. The shaft was near Stowe. Gypsum was sent from Normanwood to London to make castings, particularly for dentists. ...

H & E Smith, Britannia Works, Hanley

H & E Smith is a specialist tile manufacturer with a factory on Old Town Road in Hanley. Founded in 1926 as Smith & Warrilow, the company became H & E Smith in 1948. They specialised in the manufacture ...

H & R Johnson Ltd., Connaught Street, Tunstall

The building in the photograph is the drum dryer and slip house at H & R Johnson's ceramic tile works in Connaught Street in Tunstall. Slip is a mixture of clay, other ceramic materials and water used ...

H & R Johnson's Eastwood Tile Works, Hanley

H & R Johnson's Eastwood Tileworks was at the northern end of Eastwood Road in Hanley. The main entrance is on the right, Bernard Street (until the 1950s, named Grosvenor Street) is the road coming in ...

H Aynsley's works, Commerce Street, Longton

This photograph of Herbert Aynsley's Commerce Street Works was taken from the corner of Millbank Street (previously Union Street) with the centre of Longton off to the right. Formerly known as Chetham ...

H&R Johnson's Highgate tile works, Tunstall

The Highgate tile works of H & R Johnson was opposite Enoch Wedgwood's pottery on Brownhills Road, Tunstall. The Highgate pottery dates from the 1830s and originally belonged to George Hood. It passed ...

H.J. Bostock, Lotus Ltd., Stafford

Seated is Henry John Bostock (1870-1956), former Chairman and Managing Director of shoe manufacturers Lotus Ltd., pictured at Lotus Ltd.'s factory on Sandon Road, Stafford. This is probably a group of ...

H.J. Gover, photographer, Piccadilly, Hanley

H.J. Gover's artists and photographers shop at 53, Piccadilly, Hanley. Herbert James Gover was born in Clerkenwell, London in 1857. He was the son of Edward J. Gover, draughtsman and author of an ...

H.W. Furbank, Garage, Market Street, Uttoxeter

Furbank's garage on the corner of Market Street and Spiceal Street.

Half Hose Knitting Department, Job White & Sons Ltd, Compton Mills, Leek

Half pence token, Bilston

A copper halfpenny token issued by ironmaster and entrepreneur John ‘Iron Mad’ Wilkinson. Born at Little Clifton, Cumberland in 1728, John Wilkinson pioneered cast iron production during the Industrial ...