Wedgwood Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony, Barlaston
The present Wedgwood factory was built 1938 - 1940 on the Barlaston estate, purchased from the Broughton-Adderley family in 1936. The move from Etruria only took place in 1950, due to the intervention ...
Wedgwood Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony, Barlaston
Workers from the Etruria Wedgwood factory at the foundation stone laying ceremony for the new factory at Barlaston.
In the foreground are the 'Etruscan' veterans, long serving Wedgwood employees, who ...
Wedgwood School of Free Hand Paintresses, Barlaston
Miss Millicent Taplin, Head of the Department, can be seen in the glass panelled office.
In the foreground one of the paintresses can be seen mixing enamel colours on a ceramic tile.
Decorated ware ...
Wedgwood School of Free Hand Paintresses, Barlaston
Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795) began his apprenticeship as a potter in 1744. He started his own pottery business at Ivy House in Burslem 1759. As Wedgwood experiment with new techniques and glazes, his ...
Wedgwood School of Free Hand Paintresses, Barlaston
Miss Millicent Taplin, Head of the Department, can be seen in the glass panelled office.
Photograph by courtesy of the Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Wellington Road Garage , Hanley
The Hill family brothers (including the image donor's great-grandfather Sam Hill and grandfather Reg Hill), sons and some of their employees outside the garage on the corner of Wellington Road and Bucknall ...
Wesley Place Sunday School outing to Trentham Gardens
David Cooke is on 2nd row, fifth from the left. Two rows directly behind David are Sid and Brenda Bailey. Also in the photograph are four of the Naylor Family. Harold Naylor was Lord Mayor of Stoke on ...
Wesleyan Band, Stafford,
The band are seated in front of the Wesleyan Mission Hall on Rowley Street, opened in 1885.
Weston Garage
Weston Garage with the owner Jack Austin on the left, wearing a cap. The garage was demolished around 1930 when the railway bridge was built.
Wetley Rocks Show
A postcard view of villagers and onlookers along with several children dressed in special clothes for the Village Show, taken on Mill Lane, Wetley Rocks.
The building in the background is the Village ...
White Satin Evening Bag
This evening clutch bag is made out of satin with white beads sewn onto the front. It has a press stud fastening.
White Wedding Handbag
This is a small drawstring handbag used for a wedding.
William Blake, photographer, Longton
Portrait of a man and woman. The man is believed to be the photographer, William John Bailey Blake (1874-1957) of Longton, photographed at the back of a house on Chaplin Road in about 1906.
William ...
William Booth's Visit to Stone,
William Booth (1829 - 1912), known as 'General Booth', founded the Christian Mission in 1865.
The movement aimed to help the poor and needy of London's East End, and as it developed was renamed the ...
William George Brindley
This well presented gentleman is William George Brindley. He was a fire officer in the early 1900's. He died in 1933. Notice how different his uniform is in comparison to today's fire brigade.
Wilmot Martin as 'Staffordshire's Harry Lauder', Hixon,
Wilmot Martin was a farmer who was born near Bridgeford in 1874. He finally settled in Hixon. He was known locally as 'Staffordshire's Harry Lauder' due to his charity fund raising concerts, where he ...
Wilmot Martin, Hixon
Mr Wilmot Martin, 'Staffordshire's Harry Lauder' pictured with his wife Edith outside their home, The Wee House on the Hillside, Hixon on the occasion of celebrations of 40 years of entertaining in aid ...
Window Display of Ladies' Shoes, 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 ...