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 ...
Sponging. Miss Maud Hancock.
Pottery factory interior depicting a female worker in the process of sponging ware.
The photograph was taken at Booth's pottery factory in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
The worker in the picture is ...
Sports Shoe Manufacture, Lotus, 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 ...
Spraying Glaze.
Pottery factory interior showing a woman aerographing glaze onto a ewer.
She is using a pneumatic airbrush.
Aerography was the mechanical spraying of glaze onto pots.
It also helped enormously ...
Stacking Saggars in a Kiln.
Pottery factory interior with a view of workers stacking saggars in a kiln.
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and smoke during bottle ...
Stafford & Stone Co-operative Society visit, Lowestoft
Visit of the Branch Managers and Officers of the Stafford & Stone Co-operative Society on a visit to the Co-operative Wholesale Society factories at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Included in this group are Mr ...
Stafford & Stone Co-operative Society visit, Lowestoft
Visit of the Branch Managers and Officers of the Stafford & Stone Co-operative Society on a visit to the Co-operative Wholesale Society factories at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Included in this group are Gordon ...
Stafford Laundry, circa 1960
Stafford laundry was established in 1899. In 1952 its manager, Arthur Leese, recorded what went on behind the scenes, for showing at Womens Institutes and other societies.
When I first started as a junior ...
Stafford Tool & Die factory,
Women workers at Stafford Tool & Die factory, St Patrick's Place.
Stafford Tool & Die made machinery for the shoemaking industry at their factory at St Patrick's Place.
Stafford Tool & Die factory,
Interior of Stafford Tool & Die factory, St Patrick's Place.
Stafford Tool & Die made machinery for the shoemaking industry at their factory at St Patrick's Place.
Staffordshire Potteries Ltd. factory, Meir
Aerial view of the Staffordshire Potteries factory at Meir. During the 1950s Staffordshire potteries Ltd became the largest producer of utilitarian white cups, also manufacturing blue band kitchen ware ...
Staffordshire Society at the English Electric Co., Stafford
This picture of a visit by the Staffordshire Society was taken in the Turbine Generator Division, in an area often known as ‘68 Bay’ which was located on the former Lichfield Road Site in Stafford, near ...
Standon Mill
Between November 1946 and December 1947 Mr T.J. Bayliss (a student at the nearby teacher training college, Nelson Hall), conducted an environmental study on Standon Mill as part of his course. In June ...
Starting up, United Lamp Black Works, Four Ashes
Albert Machin lighting a burning pan at United Lamp Black Works, Four Ashes. Creosote, a by-product of the manufacture of coal-gas, was burned in wheeled metal pans to produce the lamp black which was ...
Staton's Plaster Mill, Tutbury
Sack filling and storage shed at Staton's plaster mill, Tutbury.
Prior to 1890, J.C. Staton and Company were mining gypsum at Fauld and making plaster at Shobnall, Burton-upon-Trent. Tutbury Mill ...
Sticking Up.
Pottery factory interior showing a worker in the process of 'sticking up'.
He is using slip (liquid clay) to join separately made pieces together.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...