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Clicking Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stone
This photograph is of the clicking or cutting room, where the pieces of leather which make up the parts of the shoe are cut from hides. The Lotus factory stands on Longton Road in Stone.
Lotus was ...
Clicking Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stone
The Lotus factory on Longton Road manufactured ladies' shoes. This photograph is of the lasting or making room, where the shoe upper is attached to the sole.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and ...
Cliff Vale Engineering works, Shelton New Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Cliff Vale Engineering was on Shelton New Road. Behind the works is a cooling tower and gas holder belonging to Etruria gasworks. The site today is occupied by a timber merchant.
Clifford Gaskin with 1901 Sunbeam Mabley
Pictured in the driving seat rasiing a glass is Joules employee Clifford Gaskin, Foreman Cooper.
Mr Gaskin was well known in Stone as the 'nanny' of this very rare 1901 Sunbeam Mabley car, which had ...
Clifford Gaskin with 1901 Sunbeam Mabley, Stone
Clifford Gaskin, Foreman Cooper with a 1901 Veteran Sunbeam Mabley car owned by John Joule & Sons, Ltd. As their first car, it may have been one of the earliest motor cars seen on the roads in North Staffordshire.
Mr ...
Clock mechanism, Skerrett, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Photograph of a large clock mechanism, repaired or maintained by A.J. Thornton, clock and watch maker, Old Road, Stone in about 1950. This clock was made by Skerrett of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1888. ...
Close and Keeling's Invention - Notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Cutting edge technology in pottery making
Printed notice informing pottery manufacturers of Valentine Close and James Keeling's patented oven design.
The new design promises to use less coal, reduce ...
Closing Department, Lotus Ltd., Stafford
Employees are pictured in the Closing Room at the Lotus Shoe Factory in Stafford. If you recognise anyone in this view please contact us. This photograph was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon. ...
Closing Department, Lotus Ltd., Stafford
Nigel Reade and Sheila Land pictured in the Closing Department at the Lotus Shoe Factory in Stafford. Sheila is sewing together the leather parts which make up the upper of a woman's shoe. This photograph ...
Closing Dept., Mason and Marson Shoe Factory, Stafford, (1)
The closing department was where various shapes of leather were stitched together to form the shoe uppers.
This is one of a series of postcards sent to the wife of an Australian shoe manufacturer, ...
Closing Room Cricket Team, Lotus Ltd., Stone
Stone Lotus shoe factory's closing room women's cricket team.
Back row (left to right): Maya Sheppard, Brenda Morris, Margaret Burton (later Eyre), Gillian, Pam Hill, Muriel Sharman (later Morris).
Front ...
Closing Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, 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 ...
Closing Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stafford
Lotus was formerly Edwin Bostock's shoe factory, which was on Foregate Street, Stafford. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1901, but was rebuilt on Sandon Road in 1903.
Bostock's became Lotus Ltd. ...
Closing Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stafford
Lotus was formerly Edwin Bostock's shoe factory, which was on Foregate Street, Stafford. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1901, but was rebuilt on Sandon Road in 1903.
Bostock's became Lotus Ltd. ...
Closing Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stafford
Lotus was formerly Edwin Bostock's shoe factory, which was on Foregate Street, Stafford. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1901, but was rebuilt on Sandon Road in 1903.
Bostock's became Lotus Ltd. ...
Clough Street, Hanley
North Staffs Joinery and William Fleet (carpets and upholstery) had their premises on Clough Street, on the Corner of Mersey Street. Mersey Street is at the eastern end of Clough Street, the buildings ...
Coach Trip, Stoke-on-Trent
Coach trips were popular during the 1950's, and much quicker and more comfortable than the early charabancs.
Here is a company's staff outing, probably from Royal Doulton, about to depart for Blackpool ...
Coal Ovens at Downing's Blurton Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The kilns had domed roofs with a separate chimney and were called downdraught ovens. There were 8 to 10 "firemouths" around the outside of each oven used to stoke the fires. The hot gases were drawn ...