Industrial Landscape. Photographed by William Blake.
An industrial landscape with a view of pot bank bottle kilns.
Unknown location.
Industrial Landscape. Photographed by William Blake.
Print of an industrial landscape with a view of pot bank bottle kilns and a house.
Unknown location.
Industrial Landscape. Photographed by William Blake.
Print of an industrial landscape.
Unknown location.
Industrial Landscape. Photographed by William Blake.
Print of an industrial landscape.
Unknown location.
Inside an Enamel Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view inside an enamel kiln placed with decorated wares. No saggars are being used in this firing.
Decorated pottery was coal fired in an enamel (or muffle) kiln.
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Inspecting and Packing Ware.
Pottery factory interior with a view of an inspection and packing department.
The very best quality would be firsts, less good quality seconds, thirds and lump would be sold by weight to market traders.
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Inspecting Plates.
Pottery factory interior showing a man inspecting plates.
He is looking for imperfections left on the ware from the firing process.
Taken at Shelly's pottery factory, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
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Interior courtyard at Victoria Pottery, Fenton
The Victoria Pottery was just south of King Street. In this photograph, The circular structure on the left is thought to be the base of an oven started in 1806 by the Mason family (of Ma son's Patent ...
Intermittent downdraught tile kilns at Wheatley's Springfield Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of Wheatley's Springfield Tileries in Stoke-on-Trent. Tile factories existed throughout Stoke-on-Trent in the 19th and 20th centuries and formed an important local industry.
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It's A Pretty Thing - Stoke-on-Trent! Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial landscape taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This image, with its damning caption, is one of many where Blake is critical of the conditions created in the city by the pottery industry.
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J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery, Hanley
This is the Cresswell Road side of J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery works in Hanley. J & G Meakins was founded in 1851, originally in Hanley. They moved to the Eagle Pottery in 1959, a brand new works built ...
J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery, Hanley
The Ivy House entrance to J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery in Hanley. The pottery opened in 1859 and closed finally in 2004, after absorption into the Wedgwood and latterly producing Johnson Brothers wares. ...
J H Weatherby's Falcon Pottery, Hanley
A view north along Old Town Road with the Falcon Pottery building on the right and the winding gear of Hanley Deep Pit in the distance. Safin House, in the centre, was occupied by S Finney & Sons , a ...
J Hewitt Sons works, Fenton.
Joseph Hewitt & Co. operated the Fenton Low Brick and Marl work was alongside the Biddulph Valley and Leek branch of the old North Staffordshire Railway. The line opened in 1859 and was finally closed ...
J Steventon & Sons pottery, Burslem
J Steventon & Sons occupied a pottery in Steventon Place, just off Market Place in Burslem. They operated the Royal Pottery at the bottom of Steventon Place. Established as Brown & Steventon in 1897 ...
J Steventon & Sons pottery, Steventon Place, Burslem
The entrance to Steventon & Sons Royal Pottery works at the end of Steventon Place, off Market Place in Burslem. John Steventon (formerly Brown and Steventon) started in 1897 and latterly made Royal Venton ...
J T Fell's Pottery, Smithy Lane, Longton
This photograph was taken looking across St Martin's Lane (no longer named) towards the top of Smithy Lane in Longton. Smithy Lane runs between J T Fell Pottery on the left and Allin & Williams, wholesale ...
J. Lloyd & Sons, Registry Street, Stoke
This factory was constructed between 1832 and 1878. It is now used as a warehouse but had previously been a pottery factory.