Fairfield Pottery in Robson Street, Hanley
The Fairfield ceramic works is the large building on the right. The main entrance was on Slippery Lane, which is the road running off to the right. At the time of the photograph it was operated by A G ...
Falcon Pottery Works, Sturgess Street, Stoke
This building plan shows the Falcon Pottery works in Sturgess Street which, like the Goss works, was owned by William Henry Goss. The building are now grade II listed.
The plan shows the front, back ...
Falcon Works.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens and an exterior wooden staircase.
Exterior stairs were a feature of pottery factories. Workshops tended to be separate rooms with separate entrance doors.
There ...
Fenton Manor Station, Fenton
Fenton Manor Station was on the old Biddulph Valley line and Leek branch of North Staffordshire Railway. The station was on Manor Street (then named Albert Street), just off Victoria Road. The line passes ...
Fettling flatware, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a woman fettling saucers and plates. Fettling is the process of removing marks from the ware prior to firing. The fettling of flatware is also known as towing, as a coarse ...
Filter press, Minton's Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior showing two slip house workers using a filter press in the preparation of clay. The workers are disassembling the press to remove the clay. Taken at Minton's factory in Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken ...
Finished Warehouse, Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory interior with a view of a warehouse.
The women in the picture are checking ware for quality and wrapping it in preparation for leaving the factory.
The woman on the left is checking ...
Fireman Stoking Calcining Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a fireman stoking a calcining kiln.
Calcining is the process of heating bone or flint to soften it for grinding down into a powder.
Bone and flint powder ...
Firing a Kiln at Minton Hollins.
Pottery factory interior showing a fireman shovelling coal into a kiln firemouth.
Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle ...
Firing a kiln in a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior depicting a man firing a kiln.
Formed ware is made hard by exposing it to very high temperatures, which was commonly achieved by firing it in a bottle oven.
The bottle ...
Firing Pottery. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of the smokey industrial landscape as pottery manufacturers fire their products in kilns and ovens.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...
Fixing Spout and Teapot.
Pottery factory interior showing a man fixing a spout to a teapot.
The teapot was assembled or stuck up when the clay had dried to a leather-hard state, not completely dry.
The pieces were joined ...
Flat-Presser Making Dishes.
Pottery factory interior showing a flat-presser making dishes.
A young mould runner waits on the presser, supplying him with moulds.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Flatware Makers at Gladstone China.
Pottery factory interior with a group of flatware makers posing for a photograph.
The photograph was taken in the flatware making shop at Gladstone China, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, in ...
Floor Plan of a Potbank - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This floor plan for a pottery complex may have been drawn up by local manufacturer Enoch Wood - who certainly added notes outlining his intentions.
He noted down plans for a nine-foot perimiter wall, ...
Foley China Works, Fenton
The Foley China Works was on King Street close to the border between Fenton and Longton and dates from 1850. The first operators were Robinson & Co, before the works were taken over by Elijah Brain & ...
Foley China Works, Fenton
Pottery factory exterior taken at the Foley China Works, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Date unknown but the photograph was taken before 1978.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection. ...
Ford's Pottery, Newcastle Street, Burslem
Looking southwest along the upper end of Newcastle Street, just outside Burslem. The buildings on the right were part of Ford's Pottery, which extended up from Blake Street. Ford's were an earthenware, ...