Rose Queen, Oulton, near Stone
This group of Oulton children were photographed after the ceremony of crowning the Rose Queen, held on the Vicarage lawns on the afternoon of Saturday 23 July. On the left is the Vicar of Oulton, the ...
Royal Artillery, Aberystwyth
16 Battery, 6th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery taken outside the Drill Hall, Glyndwr Road, Aberystwyth. On the front row, 6th from the left, is Donald Sutton of Cheddleton, highlighted with an ...
Royal Navy Air Fitter, RAF Hednesford
A young Royal Navy Air Fitter with the Fleet Air Arm poses on hut steps at RAF Hednesford during World War 2. RAF Hednesford was a training establishment.
It is difficult to discern the letter below ...
Royal School Orphanage, Wolverhampton
Dining room at the Royal School Orphanage on Penn Road, Woverhampton. Girls are busy laying tables.
The Royal Wolverhampton School was originally founded as The Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum in 1850. ...
Royal School Orphanage, Wolverhampton
Dining room at the Royal School Orphanage on Penn Road, Woverhampton. In the background boys are busy laying tables.
The Royal Wolverhampton School was originally founded as The Wolverhampton Orphan ...
Royal School Orphanage, Wolverhampton
Dining room at the Royal School Orphanage on Penn Road, Woverhampton. Girls are busy laying tables.
The Royal Wolverhampton School was originally founded as The Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum in 1850. ...
Royal School Orphanage, Wolverhampton
A laundry class at the Royal School Orphanage on Penn Road, Woverhampton. The girls are using flat irons, drying racks and mangles . This image also shows mechanical line shafts and pulleys, and empty ...
Royal Visit to Doulton Factory, Burslem
This is a typical newsreel of a royal visit. This visit is in 1913. A very important visit of King George the Fifth and Queen Mary. It was only two years after the King’s coronation. At this time the ...
Rugeley Trent Valley Railway Station
A photograph taken from the deck of Colton Road Bridge showing the first Trent Valley Railway station building and up platform at Rugeley, designed by John Livock, opened in 1847, and demolished in 1908 ...
Rugeley Trent Valley Railway Station
The station was on the main Trent Valley Line (TVR) between Stafford and Rugby and the building was designed by John Livock, the TVR Co.’s consultant architect. Construction was commenced by the TVR ...
Running Out A Potters Frit Kiln. 1937. Photographed by William Blake.
Pottery workers "Running Out A Frit Kiln". Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Running Out Frit Kiln, 1937. Photographed by William Blake.
View of pottery workers "Running Out Frit Kiln". Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Saggar House at Maddock's.
Pottery factory interior with a view of the saggar house at Maddock's pot bank, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
The workers in the picture are in the process of placing wares into saggars in preparation for ...
Saggar House. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior of the saggar house with two men at work emptying ware out of the saggar after firing. The white dust is either alumina or silica sand which was used as a bedding material for the clay ...
Saggar Makers. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with saggar makers at work. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Saggar making at a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior showing two men and a boy saggar making. Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and smoke during bottle oven firing. ...
Saggar making, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing a saggar maker finishing a saggar.
Taken at Sutherland China, Normacot Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery ...
Saggar Making.
Pottery factory interior showing a saggar maker and a saggar maker's bottom knocker at work.
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and ...