Longton
Longton, looking towards The Strand, across the site of the old bus station. The chimneys belonging to the Beswick's factory can be seen.
Longton Aerial View.
Aerial view of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken in 1953, this view shows many pottery factories, bottle ovens and warehouses.
St. James' Church, Gladstone China and Uttoxeter Road can be seen in the ...
Longton from Meir Hay Fields
This photograph was taken from what was called Meir Hay fields, looking westwards towards Longton with the tower of St James' church on the skyline in the centre. This part of Longton was thought to have ...
Longton Pottery Co., Ltd. Longton
Pottery factory exterior, bottle kiln and demolition lorry taken at Longton Pottery Co. Ltd, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
The lorry has the company name 'Potteries Demolition' painted on the bonnet.
Date ...
Longton Station
The Phoenix Pottery Works seen from the platform of Longton Station, looking west towards Fenton. Phoenix Pottery was operated by Thomas Forester, specialising in majolica, from the 1880s.
The chimney ...
Longton Station and the Phoenix Works, Longton
Longton Station in the foreground with the old Phoenix Pottery building behind and the tower of St John The Baptist Church (demolished in 1979) beyond that.
The station, opened in 1848, is on an embankment. ...
Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial landscape taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The photograph includes the caption "Daddy Does Father Christmas Really Go Down Chimneys?"
Despite an obvious pride in many of ...
Looking over Shelton from Harsthill Bank, Stoke-on-Trent
The view looking north east from the top of Harsthill Bank. The photograph was taken from the end of Vicarage Road in Hartshill overlooking what is now Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. In the centre ...
Looking over Stoke-on-Trent from Richmond Street, Penkhull
This was the view east from near the allotments at the bottom of Richmond Street in Penkhull. On the right hand edge is the tower of St Peter's Church in Stoke (Stoke Minster) and the domed building in ...
Looking over the Potteries from Hartshill Bank
This was the view north east from the top of Hartshill Bank (at the bottom of Vicarage Road). The lower land in the foreground is the Fowlea Brook valley with the main railway line running across. Immediately ...
Looking south east from Hartshill Park, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph was taken from the end of Vicarage Road on the edge of Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The camera is looking south eastwards along the Fowlea Valley towards the sites of Stoke Station ...
Lotus & Delta advertising leaflet, Stafford
A leaflet advertising the Lotus and Delta shoe brands, produced for the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley Park, 1924-1925.
Bostock's was founded in the eighteenth century by Henry's grandfather ...
Lotus & Delta shoe factory, Stafford
A general view of Bostock's Lotus and Delta Shoe factory on Sandon Road, Stafford. An illustration by Sydney R. Jones from a Lotus shoes trade catalogue, 1916.
Bostock's was founded in the eighteenth ...
Lotus factory after demolition, Stafford
The Lotus shoe factory site on Sandon Road during demolition in 1998. The site is now occupied by housing.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas ...
Lotus Factory from south east, 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 ...
Lotus Factory Workers, Peace Celebrations, Stone
This group of workers celebrating Peace at the end of World War I are believed to be pictured in the Lotus Ltd. shoe factory in Cross Street, Stone. Handwritten on the reverse is the date July 18th 1919.
Lotus ...
Lotus Ltd shoe factory, Longton Road, Stone
A view of the Longton Road frontage of the Lotus Ltd. shoe factory in Stone, built in 1950.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. ...
Lotus Ltd. factory, Stone
Pencil drawing on white paper of the Lotus factory in Stone, showing the Longton Road frontage. The artist's signature bottom right is Edward Swann or Shaw.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and ...