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Abbots Bromley Tudor - Market Cross and House: pencil and wash drawing

'Market Cross, Abbots Bromley.' Showing a row of houses and the church tower in the background. The village street is to the right.[Original pencil drawing for SV I.9b.]'T.P.W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood.]...

Accounts Department, Universal Wheel Grinding Co., Stafford,

The Universal Grinding Wheel Co. was established on Doxey Road in 1913. The offices opened on 21st January 1938. By the 1970s the company was the largest manufactory of emery wheels and grindstones ...

Accounts Document, 1698. Photographed by William Blake.

Photograph of a 17th Century document containing the accounts of a Mr. Addams in the Parish of "Stoke Upon Trent." The document is dated October 9th 1698.

Acme Marls works, Burslem

Acme Marls occupied a site on the corner of Bournes Bank and Enoch Street (now Woodbank Street) in Burslem. The company made kiln furniture (refractory supports on which pottery is stacked during firing ...

Adams Butter's First Show Trailer, Ball Haye Hall

Fred Adams Snr. bought a small diary farm on Buxton Road in 1870, and his son Fred began making butter there in 1922. The business was ground-breaking, being the first in the country to produce pre-packed ...

Adams pottery factory, Furlong Road, Tunstall

The photograph shows the Greengates Pottery Works of William Adams & Sons in Furlong Road. The works was at the eastern end close Tunstall High Street (just to the right). William Adams opened a factory, ...

Adderley Works, Lightwood Road, Longton

These premises were near to the bus station. William A. Adderley operated the Daisy Bank Pottery in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent producing China and Earthenware. After 1905 they traded as Adderleys Ltd. ...

Address of the Coal Miners of the North Staffordshire District - A notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

This notice invites us to explore the hardships suffered by North Staffordshire's coal miners in 1831 - when their early trade unions were still not widely recognised. Employers often intimidated organised ...

Address to the Workmen in the Parishes of Burslem and Wolstanton - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

The Truck System This was a system whereby the workers were forced to accept goods in lieu of payment. They would be payed in tokens, which could only be spent at the company store or 'Tommy Shop.' The ...

Adelaide Street, Burslem

Adelaide Street links Waterloo Road and Nile Street in Burslem. The Adelaide Street Pottery was operated by Robert Sudlow & Sons from the 1880s, although there had been a potworks on the site since at ...

Adit mining, Alton Castle, near Cheadle

Photograph of opening of an adit mine, 'Alton Castle', near Cheadle, Staffordshire. Adit mines are driven into the side of a hill or mountain, and are often used when coal is located inside the mountain ...

Advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., Leek

A colour advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., silk manufacturers of Leek, published in Leek supplement of 'The Drapers' Organiser', July 1925. The firm were manufacturers of "sewing silks, ...

Advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., Leek

A colour advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., silk manufacturers of Leek, published in 'The Men's Wear Organiser', January 1925. The illustration highlights many of their products. The ...

Advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., Leek

A colour advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., silk manufacturers of Leek, published in Leek supplement of 'The Drapers' Organiser', July 1925. The firm were manufacturers of "sewing silks, ...

Advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., Leek

A colour advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., silk manufacturers of Leek, published in 'The Men's Wear Organiser', January 1924. The illustration is an idealized view of their factories in ...

Advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., Leek

A colour advertisement for Brough, Nicholson & Hall Ltd., silk manufacturers of Leek, published in Leek supplement of 'The Drapers' Organiser', July 1925. The firm were manufacturers of "sewing silks, ...

Advertisement for C.W. Boast Ironmongers, Uttoxeter Road, Longton

Boast's ironmongers shop stood at 73 Uttoxeter Road, Longton and was run by Mr S. Hewitt. It was later demolished and incorporated in the Duchess China Works' building extensions. Earlier in the 20th ...

Advertisement for Evo-Stick Glue, Evode, Stafford

John Bennett pictured here as the 'The Canadian Mountie', was chosen to advertise Evo-Stik as the uniform has the same red and black colour scheme as the Evo-stik packaging. John Bennett Left Evode, ...