View of the Potteries from Stoke-on-Trent
A view south east from open ground near the top of Sturgess Street in Stoke-on-Trent. The roof in the centre foreground behind the trees belongs to the main range of Falcon Pottery Works, built 1902-1905. ...
View of the Potteries.
A postcard with a view of Stoke-on-Trent, with the caption 'Fresh air for the Potteries' showing the level of pollution before the Clean Air Act in 1956.
View taken from the Midway, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph was taken from the Midway and shows the A34 looking south. The scene was much changed by 2002 with the Warner Brothers Cinema taking the place of Burgess'. The white buildings of the Blackfriars ...
Vulcan Works, Clough Street, Hanley
The Vulcan Works was operated by Swinnertons Ltd (a company linked with the neighbouring Alcock, Lindley & Bloore pottery). Between then two works is Slippery Lane.
The Vulcan Works dates from the ...
W J Dolby, Potters' Millers, Lytton Street, Stoke-on-Trent
W J Dolby were potter's millers and merchants who supplied prepared clay, flint and bones to pottery works. The mill was located alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal (to import raw materials) on Lytton ...
W.J. Dolby, Potters' Millers, Stoke-on-Trent
Photograph of the rear of the factory taken from the tow path on the Trent Mersey Canal.
W.J. Dolby were potter's millers and merchants who supplied prepared clay, flint and bones to pottery works. ...
W.Podmore & Sons, Potters' Millers, Shelton
W Podmore & Sons were a family firm of potters' millers with several mills around North Staffordshire. This is their Caledonian Mill on Caledonia Road in Shelton, just off Cemetery Road. The buildings ...
Wade Heath & Co, Westport Road, Burslem
John and Richard Riley constructed this building as their new potworks, the Hill Works, in 1814. It is now known as Wade Heath & Co. Ltd. This photograph shows a detail of the building. Since being built ...
Wade Heath's Hill Works Pottery, Burslem
The photograph was taken looking up Westport Road from the near the corner of Back Sytch Road (now no longer). On the left is the sign for Hill Top Council Junior and Infants' School which were on the ...
Wagstaff & Brunt's Pottery, Longton
Wagstaff & Brunt's Richmond Pottery on the corner of March Road and King Street in Longton. March Road was known as Richmond Road until the 1950s. A 1908 advert for the company claimed that this was ...
Walkers Nonsuch Toffee Factory, Calverley Street, Longton
Walkers' toffee business was founded in 1894 by Edward Joseph Walker. His son Edward Victor Walker joined the family business in 1915. The company continues to make a range of toffee products in their ...
Wardle & Davenport's Office Block, Leek
Built in 1925, this fine building was demolished with the rest of Wardle & Davenport's huge Belle Vue Mill in the 1970s.
The silk manufacturing firm of Wardle & Davenport began in 1867 as a partnership ...
Warehouse and Registered Office, Job White & Sons Ltd., Compton, Leek
The firm of Job White & Sons Ltd. decorated their offices in Compton to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The portrait on the facing wall was a sizeable 12 feet high.
Washington Pottery Works, Waterloo Road, Burslem
Looking along Waterloo Road towards Burslem with the old Washington Pottery with the clock tower on the left. The pottery site and the buildings to the right have all been demolished, although the white ...
Washington Pottery, College Road, Shelton
Looking north along College Road (formerly Victoria Road) with the Washington Pottery in the centre. Off to the left is Shelton Farm, complete with sheep. On the extreme right hand edge is the Drill Hall, ...
Wedgwood's Etruria Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
Josiah Wedgwood's Etruria Works opened in 1769. Importantly, the factory was built on land that Wedgwood knew lay on the route of the proposed Trent & Mersey Canal which was opened in 1777. The factory ...
Wedgwood's Etruria works, Stoke-on-Trent
Etruria Works was opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769, replacing the Ivy House and Brick House Works in Burslem. Built on the route of the Trent & Mersey Canal, just where it would be crossed by the Newcastle ...
Wedgwood's Manufactory, Etruria
A hand-coloured engraving taken from "The Land We Live In - A Pictorial Historical and Literary Sketch-book of the British Islands", published by William S. Orr & Co, London, 1850.
Etruria Works was ...