Shard Ruck, Longton
Postcard with a view of a pottery waste area called a Shard Ruck. Taken in the Potteries, Staffordshire.
Shard Ruck, always known locally as a shraff tip, was most probably at or near the Daisy Bank ...
Shaw & Copestake's Pottery, Longton
This is the Sylvan Works of Shaw and Copestake on Normacot Road in Longton. Chadwick Street goes off to the left, with the derelict Old Sea Lion Inn on the corner. The photograph was taken from the corner ...
Sheaf Passage, Longton
The new Adams Pottery building, near Gower Street.
Shelley Pottery, King Street, Fenton
The Shelley pottery stood on the north side of King Street close to the junction with Hollings Street. Prior to 1910 the company traded as Foley China. Most of the works have been demolished although ...
Shelton Bar and Messrs Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.
Oil painting showing an industrial landscape and steel works. The railway line can be seen in the left foreground with Josiah Wedgwood's factory at Etruria in the middle distance to the right.
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Shelton Bar Steel Works, Etruria
The Trent and Mersey Canal passing through the Steel Works at Shelton Bar. Steel production at Shelton Bar ended in 1978 but the processing of existing steel continued in the rolling mills until the ...
Shelton Bar Steelworks
When we were a fully integrated steelworks we stretched from Etruria right up to the Grand Hotel in Hanley – we’d got the plant spread out. The by-products from the iron-making furnaces – what’s known ...
Shelton Iron and Steel Works, Etruria
A view of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria, showing Shelton Iron and Steel Works, Etruria. To the right is Etruria Hall, and in the distance are two spoil heaps made of the waste from local coal ...
Shelton Steel Works from Grange Park, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking southwest from around the end of Emerson Road over what is now Grange Park part of Festival Park. Shelton Steel Works rolling mills are in the centre and the furnaces to the left. ...
Shelton Steel Works, Stoke-on-Trent
Shelton Steel Works had its origins from the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Granville Levison Gower, Marquis of Stafford, started the works in the Etruria Valley next to the Trent and Mersey ...
Sherwin's Brush Factory, Hinde Street, Hanley.
Robert Sherwin's Brush Factory, Hinde Street, Hanley.
Shoe factory, Browning Street and Marston Road, Stafford
A shoe factory or warehouse once occupied this building at 25 Browning Street, on the corner with Marston Road. The house to the right is 1, Marston Road.
The building at 25 Browning Street’s origins ...
Short Street, Longton
Photograph taken from across Normacot Road.
Shorter & Sons Art Glaze Pottery, Copeland Street, Stoke upon Trent
Shorter & Sons Art Glaze Pottery was at the north end of Copeland Street, close to its junction with Liverpool Road. The Company started as Shorter & Boulton and initially produced Majolica wares. By ...
Siemens Brothers & Co's Electrical Works, Stafford
View of the factory from Lichfield Road. The pool in the foreground was formed from the Spital Brook.
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating ...
Silk bobbins, Thomas Whittles Ltd., Leek
Silk bobbins set up at the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street. The mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of their working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from the premises ...
Simpson's Elder Works, Waterloo Road, Cobridge
Simpson's Elder Pottery on Waterloo Road in Cobridge. The arched entrance has JA and 1848 on the posts and "Solian Ware" painted beneath the company name. The Elder Works frontage was rebuilt by John ...
Simpson's Pottery. Grange Street, Cobridge.
The extensive Elder Works, originally named the Cobridge Pottery until 1900, was between Grange Street and Hawthorne Street in Cobridge. Originally owned by the Alcock family of potters from about 1835, ...