Robson Street, Hanley
Looking down Robson Street towards the entrance to the Hanley Greyhound and Speedway Stadium (Sun Street Stadium). In the middle distance is one of the gas holders belonging to Etruria gasworks. On the ...
Rocester Cotton Mill
A view of the Cotton Mill at Rocester, showing the long east range built in about 1782 by Richard Arkwright. It was the major local employer until it closed in 1990. It was then purchased by JCB Excavators ...
Romanian visitors, Blythe Colour Works, Cresswell
A group of Romanian visitors to Blythe Colour Works with the 1938 Office Building in the background.
The manufacture of underglaze colours in Cresswell began in 1870, when a small works was set up ...
Rosina China and Adderley Floral China Potteries, Sutherland Road, Longton
These two potteries were on Sutherland Road in Longton. On the left is the Ridgway Potteries Ltd Adderley Floral China Works, the stack ovens of which are visible behind the second works, the Rosina ...
Roslyn China and Gladstone Works, Longton
The rear of the Park Place Works from what was Park Passage, but is now the car park for the Gladstone Museum and the Roslyn Works off Chadwick Street. The Park Place Works is adjacent to the Gladstone ...
Roundwell Street, Tunstall
The camera is looking south east along Roundwell Street from close to Clay Hills. Halfway down on the right is The Victoria Inn, on the corner of Plex Street. Opposite, off to the left is Hoover Street. ...
Royal Albert Pottery, Bank Street, Tunstall
Alfred Meakin's Royal Albert Pottery in Bank Street, Tunstall. This is the rear of the works, with the main entrance on neighbouring Parsonage Street. To the right, at the end of Bank Street just visible ...
Royal Castle Flint Glass Works, Hatton
The Royal Castle Flint Glass Works stood on Scropton Lane, Hatton, near Tutbury.
The Castle Works was founded by George Harry Corbett and opened in Hatton by J.T.H. Richardson by 1871. It was rebuilt ...
Royal Crown Pottery, Longton
Old ceramics factory in cul-de-sac almost opposite Heath's Passage. "Royal Crown Pottery" can just be read in in faded letters on the double-doors in the archway.
Royal Doulton Paladin Works, Atlas Street, Fenton
This ceramic factory was constructed between 1878 and 1924 and consists of several blocks, including some modern additions. This photograph show the whole row of the factory in one general view. The modern ...
Royal Doulton, Nile Street, Burslem
Once a colour works, this two-storey irregular building now houses Royal Doulton's Nile Street factory.
The ground floor porch has a decorative chafered stone surround and large datestone step dating ...
Royal Doulton's Dalehall Works.
Pottery factory exterior with a view of a calcining kiln.
Taken at Royal Doulton's Dalehall Works, Stoke-on-Trent.
Calcining is the process of heating bone or flint to soften it for grinding down ...
Royal Doulton's works, Nile Street, Burslem
Doulton's site in Nile Street, Burslem. The works was taken over by Henry Doulton, moving from Lambeth in London, in 1877. The Nile Street site previously occupied by several potters including the Riley ...
Royal Stafford Pottery, Longton
In the background is the Royal Stafford China Works of Thomas Pool & Gladstone China Ltd. who specialised in producing mid priced tableware. This was originally part of the 19th Century Cobden Works. ...
Royal Stafford, Wycliffe Street, Burslem
The Royal Stafford Pottery was constructed before 1832 and is made up of two rectangular units. The first building has four storeys, thirteen rooms wide by two rooms deep; the second has three storeys ...
Royal Visit to Doulton Factory, Burslem
This is a typical newsreel of a royal visit. This visit is in 1913. A very important visit of King George the Fifth and Queen Mary. It was only two years after the King’s coronation. At this time the ...
Rubian Art Pottery, Fenton
Looking north along St Matthew Street with the workshops and kilns of the Rubian Art Pottery on the left. the Lane Delph works were on this site from the end of the 18th Century. Barkers & Co operated ...
Rubian Art Pottery, Fenton
This photograph was taken looking southwards along St Matthew Street in Fenton. The kilns and workshops of the Rubian Art Pottery are on the right. All traces of the works have been removed and the land ...