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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 ...
Brocton Gravel Works,
Gravel pit head workings.
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 ...
Brookfield Foundry, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows what was the California Engineering Works of the locomotive builders, Kerr Stuart & Co. Railway locomotives had been produced on this site since 1892. Kerr Stuart closed down in ...
Brookfields of Stafford paper bag
A paper bag from Brookfields tailors shop, Greengate Street.
In 1743 George Boulton, a draper, opened a shop on Market Square. By the 1860s the shop was known as Brookfield and Windows.
By the early ...
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 ...
Brother Potters!
The early 1800s brought hard times for potters in Stoke-on-Trent. Costly wars disrupted trade abroad, while poor harvests caused hunger at home.
"One word with you, afore yo gon to do any moore mischif..."
Government ...
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 ...
Brownhills House, Burslem: engraving
'Brownhills the seat of John Wood, Esq.' Showing a late Georgian house (1830) of two stories, with a portico front door and suburban grounds. The town is at the back in the distance. 'Drawn and etched ...
Brush or Pencil.
Decorator's liner brush or pencil.
Consisting of a head and quill, and a detachable wooden handle.
Used by painters and paintresses to decorate pottery.
Roughly 13cm in length.
Taken from ...
Brush or Pencil.
Decorator's liner brush or pencil.
Consisting of a head and quill, and a detachable wooden handle.
Used by painters and paintresses to decorate pottery.
Roughly 19cm in length.
Taken from ...
Brush or Pencil.
Decorating brush or pencil. Square shader.
Roughly 16cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.
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Brush or Pencil.
Decorating brush or pencil used for the hand-painting of pottery.
This brush is called a tracer.
Roughly 5cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object ...
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, ...
Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall
The courtyard of Edwards' Bucknall Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. On the left is a pile of Cornish stone (or China stone) ready for smashing and grinding by the stone crusher alongside. About 1747 it was ...
Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall
George Edwards' Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. Also known as Bucknall Flint Mill it stands on the old mill stream or race taken off the River Trent near Finney Gardens. Ground bone and flint revolutionised ...
Building of the New Wedgwood Factory, Barlaston,
Proposed design for the new Wedgwood Factory front at Barlaston, by architectural practice C.S. White and Keith Murray.
Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795) began his apprenticeship as a potter in 1744. ...