Peace meeting at Hanley Town Hall - a document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Hard Times in the Potteries
By 1813, years of war with France, and later the United States, had pushed Britain's businesses to the brink of bankruptcy.
The pottery manufacturers were no exception, ...
Peacock, Trentham Gardens. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Trentham Gardens, near Stoke-on-Trent. The view includes a peacock and a water fountain.
The estate was home and pleasure gardens to the Dukes of Sutherland from the seventeenth to the early ...
Peep into a Potter's Kiln
Lantern slide with a view of a hot kiln interior. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire ...
People of England - document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
A restless and ambitious Usurper
Broadsheet outlining the dangers posed to Great Britain by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French army.
Napoleon had fought many successful land wars with the monarchies ...
Percy Hall's medal presentation, Town Hall, Leek
Percy Hall, the young boy in the picture was the first Scout to be presented with a Scouts Life-Saving Medal in the town. Councillor T. H. Bishton, Chairman of Leek Urban District Council is the man about ...
Peter De Wint
Peter De Wint (1784-1849) was a landscape painter. His father, Henry, was born in the Netherlands but settled in Stone to pursue his medical career. Peter was born in a house next to the Crown Hotel in ...
Petition to John Davenport - An 1831 election document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Before 1831, Stoke-on-Trent shared its Member of Parliament with the rest of Staffordshire.
By July 1831, a new Reform Act was promising to transform the face of elections forever.
An MP for the ...
Peverill Castle and Rocky Landscape. Photographed by William Blake.
Stereoscope slide with a rocky landscape and view of Peverill Castle at Castleton, Derbyshire.
Philip Astley
Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1742, Philip Astley was the son of a cabinetmaker who grew up to become a military hero, the original ringmaster and ‘father of the modern circus’.
In 1768, Astley acquired ...
Philip Astley
Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1742, Philip Astley was the son of a cabinetmaker who grew up to become a military hero, the original ringmaster and ‘father of the modern circus’. This silhouette portrait ...
Photo. Of Drawing By Mrs. Kathleen Blake, Mine Workings. Photographed by William Blake.
Sketch of a mine building by Mrs. Kathleen Blake. The location of the mine is unknown.
Photo. Of Drawing By Mrs. Kathleen Blake, Mine Workings. Photographed by William Blake.
Sketch of a mine building by Mrs. Kathleen Blake. The location of the mine is unknown.
Photo. Of Drawing By Mrs. Kathleen Blake, Mine Workings. Photographed by William Blake.
Sketch of a mine building by Mrs. Kathleen Blake. The location of the mine is unknown.
Photographic Mask. Photographed by William Blake.
Example of photographic masking.
Picking Coal. Photographed by William Blake.
People foraging for coal during the Coal Strike, March 1912.
Pillaton Old Hall, Penkridge. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Pillaton Old Hall, Penkridge, showing the chapel.
Pillaton Old Hall, Penkridge. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Pillaton Old Hall, Penkridge, Staffordshire.
Pillaton Old Hall, Penkridge. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Pillaton Old Hall, Penkridge, Staffordshire.