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Marking Tool.
Potter's marker or backstamp.
This fired earthenware stamp, with a banjo-shaped head, was used to mark unfired ware with the maker's stamp for date or payment purposes.
Roughly 6cm in length.
Taken ...
Marl Hole and Shard Ruck. Photographed by William Blake.
Postcard containing an industrial landscape with a view of the Daisy Bank marl hole and shard ruck, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
These huge holes were created due to the large scale extraction ...
Marsden's Tiles, Middleport
Mardsen's Tiles works were on the corner of Dale Street and Newcastle Street. This photograph was taken from Newcastle Street, Dale Street runs off to the left. The Marsden Tile company operated from ...
Mayer's and Sherrat's.
Pottery factory interior showing cup makers in a jolleying workshop.
Taken at Mayer's and Sherrat's pot bank, Stoke-on-Trent.
The four people are identified on the original copy of the photo. They ...
Meakin family, Darlaston Hall
James Lionel Meakin standing with his mother, Mrs. Emily Meakin who is seated holding James' son, James Frank (born in 1910). The family home, Darlaston Hall, near Stone, can be seen in the background.
Major ...
Meakin's Newfield Pottery, Tunstall
Alfred Meakin's Newfield Pottery stood on High Street between Tunstall and Sandyford in the area known as Newfield. Just to the right of the photograph were Newfield Sidings, at the end of the Newfield ...
Mearthenware mug
c.1926 -1939
Glazed Earthenware H. 8.5 x W. 6.6 cm
Small narrow waisted earthenware mug, body thrown and turned, handle pulled at Winchcombe Pottery, Gloucestershire, England.
Sprigged motif ...
Mechanical Apparatus for Firefighting - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In Enoch Wood's day, factories and coal mines needed more than buckets of sand to put out serious blazes.
The trouble was that there was - as yet - no rapid-response fire service to call upon.
Unsurprisingly, ...
Meeting concerning the price of colour and coals - from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
The Potteries' major manufacturers regularly negotiated mutual agreements on how much to charge for their wares.
While this ensured that one manufacturer would not be undersold by a neighbour, the ...
Mellor's Minerals mill, Etruria Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
Mellor's mill was alongside the Caldon Canal just off Etruria Vale Road. The canal is hidden behind the wall and buildings on the left. This was once the Anderton Canal Company wharf and basin, the bridge ...
Michael Sutty, Designer and Sculptor of Porcelain, Stoke on Trent
Pictured is a Royal Scots Greys Bandmaster, c. 1914, from a series of British Military Musicians created by Michael Sutty, who specialised in fine bone china sculptures of military and naval figures, ...
Middleport Mills Ltd., Furlong Lane, Middleport
The mill was at the northern end of the Burslem Branch Canal in the basin just off Furlong Lane.
Middleport Mills, Pidduck Street, Middleport
This photograph was taken from Milvale Strteet with Pidduck Street going off to the right down to the Trent & Mersey Canal. This was a calcining mill built largely in the early 19th Century, bordering ...
Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent
A view of Middleport Pottery from the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Established in 1851, Hulme and Booth's Central Pottery in Burslem was taken over in 1862 by William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess, ...
Middleport Pottery.
Pottery factory exterior, chimney and bottle oven, taken at Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent.
Allotments and greenhouses can be seen in the foreground.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum ...
Midwinter Pottery, Bournes Bank, Burslem
W R Midwinter Ltd operated an earthenware pottery on Bournes Bank from 1910. The company grew rapidly and bought several other potters (including A J Wilkinson and the Newport Pottery) before merging ...
Midwinter's Pottery, Navigation Road, Burslem
Looking southwest along Navigation Road from close to its junction with Croft Street. Off to the right is Upper Hadderidge (no longer in existence). In the far distance are the faint outlines of Wolstanton ...
Midwinter's Stylecraft Pottery, Navigation Road, Burslem
Midwinter's Pottery on Upper Hadderidge, off Navigation Road in Burslem. Although known for tablewares, Midwinter's also manufactured figures and figurines. The Stylecraft range was contemporary animal ...