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Overhouse Works entrance, Wedgwood Street, Burslem
Looking through the gates into the yard of the Overhouse Works on the corner of Wedgwood Street and Overhouse Street in Burslem. The original Overhouse Manufactory goes back to 1787 and Thomas Wedgwood. ...
Owl Jug
This famous owl jug was made in Staffordshire during the late 17th or early 18th century.
The decoration was produced using slip or liquid clay which was trailed on using a technique similar to cake ...
Packing in Crates. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing a group of pottery workers packing crates.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A ...
Packing Pottery. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of pottery workers packing pottery.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A ...
Packing Ware in a barrel in a pottery factory
Pottery factory interior with a view of a pottery worker packing ware in a barrel. The barrel was packed with straw to protect the ware during transport.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic ...
Painting Dolls Heads. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing paintresses decorating porcelain dolls heads.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” ...
Paintresses Decorating China. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing paintresses decorating ware.
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 ...
Pair of ceramic spill vase figures
A spill or taper was used to transfer a flame from an existing lit source to wherever else it was needed.
Made of tightly wound paper or thin wooden sticks, they were stored in simple wooden pots or ...
Pair of Lion Figures
Pair of pearlware lion figures. The figures are impressed on the reverse 'WOOD & CALDWELL'. Enoch Wood and James Caldwell were in partnership as pottery manufacturers in Burslem between about 1790 and ...
Pair of Minton earthenware vases
Pair of Minton Earthenware Vases, dated 1889, shape no.2427.
Pair of Minton flasks
A Pair of Minton Art Pottery terracotta flasks, dated 1872, shape no. 1614.
Paladin Works, Fenton
The Paladin Works stood alongside the Stoke to Derby railway just outside Fenton Station, off Christchurch Street. The buildings in the photograph still stand today used by several small enterprises. ...
Palette Knives.
Steel palette knives with wooden handles.
Used by paintresses in the preparation of colour for decorating pottery.
Powdered metal oxide would be mixed and smoothed using the knives.
Owned and ...
Palissy Pottery, Longton
Palissy Pottery was on Chancery Lane in Longton, which runs across the middle of the photograph. The large building on the left hand edge is the back of the Empire Theatre which fronted onto Commerce ...
Panorama from Bedford Street, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from just north of the flight of locks at Bedford Street in Shelton. The camera is looking northwards along the Caldon Canal with the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery on ...
Paper mills and pottery, Commercial Road, Hanley
The eastern end of Commercial Street in Hanley. The large building on the right is part of Brittain's Paper Mills and the more modern building at the bottom is part of J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery.
The ...
Papering china, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a woman wrapping ware with tissue paper. This was part of the packing process and protected the delicate ware whilst in transport.
Possibly taken in the warehouse ...
Paragon China Atlas Works, Sutherland Road, Longton
Paragon China Works on Sutherland Road. The works were operated by Aynsley & Irving from 1897, and was initially called Star China. They specialised in breakfast and tea bone china ware exporting to Australia, ...