Sneyd Colliery from Nile Street, Burslem
The camera is looking east from the top of Adelaide Street at the junction with Nile Street towards Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. The colliery eventually had four shafts mining house and steam coal and ...
Sneyd Colliery ropeway from Adkins Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north east from the end of Adkins Street towards the pulley wheel and pylon on the end of the aerial ropeway or cableway which connected Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks with its spoil tip. The colliery ...
Spoutfield Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photographs shows some of the intermittent coal fired brick and tile ovens at John Caddick & Sons Spoutfields Tilery. The tilery was on the corner of Brick Kiln Lane and Shelton New Road in Cliff ...
Spoutfield Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
Coal fired beehive ovens with their chimneys at John Caddick & Sons Spoutfield Tilery at the corner of Brick Kiln Lane and Shelton New Road. Just below the iron bands around the oven can be seen the ...
Stephen's Brickwoks, Fenton
Stephens Brothers works was in School Lane, an extension of Brocksford Street, in Fenton. Stephens was at one time part of the Potteries Brick Company, a marketing company for seventeen Stoke on Trent ...
Stoke to Newcastle railway line, Stoke-on-Trent
The view west along the old North Staffordshire Railway, Stoke, Silverdale and Madeley branch line near Shelton New Road and Brick Kiln Lane, 1½ miles (2.4 km) east of Newcastle. The line opened ...
Tamworth Colliery and Brickworks
General view of the early workings of Tamworth Colliery, with the Brickworks in the foreground, Coventry canal in the centre, and Tamworth colliery in the background. The figure to the right in the photograph, ...
'Tennis Court' Float, Stafford Pageant,
This float entered by British Reinforced Concrete won first prize.
The annual Stafford Pageant included a procession through the town, and ended with a fair on the town common. A prize was awarded ...
The bottom of Basford Bank, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking northwards from Etruria Road close to the bottom of Basford Bank towards Wolstanton Colliery. On the skyline are the houses in May Bank, built from the 1920s onwards.
The foreground is a jumble ...
The Canal, Gnosall
A postcard view looking north-west towards the Boat Inn Bridge, also known as Wharf Bridge, Bridge No. 34, over the Shropshire Union Canal in Gnosall.
In the centre behind the bridge there is a glimpse ...
The Canal, Gnosall
This postcard view was taken looking northwest from the tow path near to the Boat Inn Bridge, also known as Wharf Bridge, no. 34, over the Shropshire Union Canal in Gnosall.
In the distance on the ...
The view towards Trentham from Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the Trent Vale Brick and Tile Works on Rookery Lane looking southwards towards the higher ground of Trentham Gardens. In the centre foreground is the estate of prefabricated ...
The Wharf and Cowley Tunnel, Gnosall
A postcard view looking south towards Cowley Tunnel taken from the Boat Inn Bridge, also known as Wharf Bridge, Bridge No. 34, over the Shropshire Union Canal in Gnosall.
On the left there is a part ...
Trent Vale Brick & Tile Company, Stone Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The western end of the buildings that made up the Trent Vale Brick and Tile Company. The photograph was taken from close to Summerville Road on the A34. Behind the wall is now the Michelin Training Centre. ...
Trent Vale Brick and Tile Company marl hole, Stoke-on-Trent
The abandoned pit once belonging to the Trent Vale Brick and Tile Company was just off Rookery Lane. The camera is looking east over the Trent Valley, with Primrose Hill, Hanford to the right and Longton ...
Vase
Vase by Joseph-Theodore Deck (1823-1891), French potter. Deck specialised in researching glazes and colours, inspired by the ceramics of the Middle and Far East
View of the Gypsum Works, Stowe-by-Chartley,
Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. The shaft was near Stowe. Gypsum was sent from Normanwood to London to make castings, particularly for dentists. ...
Visit by pottery students to Berryhill brickworks
This picture was taken on Saturday 27th March 1926 during a visit by pottery students to the brickworks department of Berryhill Collieries Ltd.
As you can see from the photograph many of the students ...