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British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (4)

The workman is lifting blocks of salt onto a conveyor belt. Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt ...

British Soda Co. Ltd., Open Pan Salt Works, Stafford, (5)

The man on the left is bagging ground lump salt, on the right the bags are being sewn using a mechanical stitcher. Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for ...

Brittain's Paper Mill, Cheddleton

View of factory buildings at Brittain's Paper Mill, Cheddleton. A paper mill has stood on this site at Cheddleton since 1797, when the paper was made by hand. It was built by the pottery manufacturer ...

Brittain's Paper Mills, Caldon Canal, Cheddleton

A paper mill has stood on this site at Cheddleton since 1797, when the paper was made by hand. It was built by the pottery manufacturer William Adams to produce tissue paper for transfer printing in ...

Brittain's Paper Mills, Cheddleton

Brittain's Paper Mills with the Caldon Canal in the foreground. A paper mill has stood on this site at Cheddleton since 1797, when the paper was made by hand. It was built by the pottery manufacturer ...

Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford

View of Broad Eye Windmill showing the restored mill building (although still minus replacement sails). The mill dates from the later 18th century and was constructed using stone taken from Stafford's ...

Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford

The mill dates from the later 18th century and was constructed using stone taken from Stafford's original Shire Hall. At the time the photograph was taken, the building had been recently used as a local ...

Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford

Watercolour painting by Reginald Haggar (1905-1988) showing Broad Eye Windmill and adjoining houses. Broad Eye corn mill was built in 1796 using stones taken from the Old Town Hall (now replaced by ...

Broad Eye Windmill, Stafford

This view looks towards the Doxey Road from Broad Eye in Stafford and shows the Broad Eye corn mill which was built in 1796 using stones taken from the Old Town Hall (now replaced by the Shire Hall). ...

Broadcrown factory on fire, Stone

On 26 December 1993 this three-storey factory building off Mill Lane was severely damaged by fire. It was originally built in the 19th century as a fustian mill. Fustian is a type of velvet, a mixture ...

Bromley Mill Pool, Gerrards Bromley, near Eccleshall

A postcard published by E.J. Hurlstone of Eccleshall. Although the mill is no longer working, the mill pool remains and is popular with anglers.

Bromley Mill, Gerards Bromley, near Eccleshall

Bromley Mill and Farm dates mostly from the late 18th or early 19th century and included a water mill powered by a large 10 acre pool fed by the Bromley Brook. The farm and mill has been tenanted from ...

Brook Lane and Goose Street area, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A view of the gasometer or gas holder. In 1819 Newcastle-under-Lyme started its own gas light company. The gasworks were built on Goose Street. Coal was heated to release gas which was then stored in ...

Brookfield Foundry and Kerr Stuart engineering works, Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent

This is a view west from the Whieldon Road area towards the Brookfield Foundry. The main railway line runs in front of the buildings and behind can be seen the floodlight pylons of the original Stoke ...

Broom Street, Hanley

Broom Street runs east off Old Town Road in Hanley. On the corner is Safin House, occupied in 1963 by S Finney & Sons, Wholesale Warehousemen. H & E Smith's tile factory still stands, although no longer ...

Brough, Nicholson & Hall's Cross Street Mill, Leek

The bridge and Fountain Mill, to the left, were demolished in 1968. Cross Street Mill, to the right, remains. The firm were manufacturers of "sewing silks, braids, bindings, trimmings etc", and were ...

Brough, Nicholson & Halls' factory, Cross Street/Fountain Street, Leek

The firm were manufacturers of "sewing silks, braids, bindings, trimmings etc", and were prize winners at the Great Exhibition in 1851, and several later European exhibitions. This etching of their premises ...

Brushing.

Pottery factory interior showing a woman brushing bone china tea cups on a machine. Brushing the ware ensured the ware was free from dust or grit prior to glazing. Taken at the Shelley pottery factory, ...