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 ...
Saggar Making.
Pottery factory interior showing workers in the process of saggar making.
The man on the left is making bases and was known as a saggar maker's bottom knocker.
The man on the right is joining sides ...
Salt Works
Salt was traditionally made by filling large vats with brine from local springs in Stafford, evaporating this and – after evaporation – taking out the salt. To meet the needs of industry for large quantities ...
Salt Works Interior, Stafford
Packing salt.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt and Alkali Co. was founded on Common Road.
The ...
Salvation Army Band, Eccleshall,
Salvation Army band in Stafford Street.
Sam Hemmingfield, Durham Light Infantry
Sam Hemmingfield pictured in his Durham Light Infantry uniform, during the First World War, service number 80867.
Sam was promoted to sergeant and posted to the Cannock Chase Training Camps after ...
Samuel Allsopp's Middle Yard, Burton-on-Trent
These huge barrel vats are being assembled for their larger brewery. The vats were made at Bodenhiens at Cassel, Germany.
Saucer Makers.
Pottery factory interior showing workers in a saucer making workshop.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent ...
School Class Group, Uttoxeter
This postcard view shows a School class group taken at an unknown location, possibly in the Uttoxeter area.
This picture was taken by Alfred McCann who was a member of the McCann family of photographers ...
Scotch Brook, Kibblestone Camp, Stone
Boy Scouts posing on a fallen tree trunk crossing the Scotch Brook at Kibblestone Scout Camp
The Copeland family owned the Kibblestone estate from the mid-nineteenth century. Ronald Copeland started ...
Scourers dusting off the flint
Lantern slide showing pottery workers in the process of scouring. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Scourers dusting off the flint
Lantern slide showing pottery workers in the process of scouring. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled ...
Scourers. Photographed by William Blake.
Pottery workers in the process of scouring.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing ...
Scouring Machine. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with pottery workers using a scouring machine. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.