Shelton Bar Steelworks
When we were a fully integrated steelworks we stretched from Etruria right up to the Grand Hotel in Hanley – we’d got the plant spread out. The by-products from the iron-making furnaces – what’s known ...
Shoe industry officials at Lotus Ltd., Stafford
Officials of the Staffordshire Branch of the British Boot and Shoe Institution, pictured at Lotus Ltd.'s factory on Sandon Road, Stafford.
From left to right: Mr W C Mitchell (Vice Chairman), Mr H ...
Shoemaker at Mason and Marson's factory, Stafford
Mr. Eley, a finisher, at work in Mason & Marson's factory on Sandon Road, one of the many shoemaking businesses which thrived in the northern part of Stafford during the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
Shoemaker, In Vogue Shoes, Stone
Shoemaker using lasting pliers..
Invogue was the only Stone shoe manufacturer apart from Lotus Ltd. to survive beyond the Second World War. By 1932 the company, which belonged to the Reinli family, ...
Shop Floor, Siemens Engineering Works, Stafford,
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich with 800 of its employees. The company manufactured generators, electric motors and ...
Silk bobbins and loom, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Silk bobbins and loom set up at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from ...
Silk thread manufacture, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Dyeing and washing silk thread at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from ...
Silk winding machinery, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Silk winding machinery at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from the ...
Silk winding machinery, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Silk winding machinery and operator at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded ...
Silk winding machinery, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Silk winding machinery at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from the ...
Slip House
Lantern slide showing a pottery factory slip house and workers. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Slip House
Factory interior showing pottery workers in a slip house. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Slip House.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a slip house.
The slip house was the area where the clay was prepared.
The man in the picture is inspecting 'blungers' on a mixing machine. This is where ...
Slip House.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a slip house and workers using a filter press.
The man in the centre of the picture can be seen rolling prepared clay out of the press.
Taken from the Gladstone ...
Slip House. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing a pottery factory slip house.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder ...
Sorting Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stafford,
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. His three sons started their own factories in Stafford, Stone and Northampton.
Edwin Bostock's ...
Sorting, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a woman sorting china tea cups. Sorting is a quality check on the ware. The woman is checking for any marks left on the ware from the firing process. She knocks the marks ...
Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
These are scenes taken at the Spode factory in Stoke-on-Trent around 1932. It’s typical of many items in the Film Archive showing the pottery industry. Films began to be made at this time to promote the ...