Cutting Room, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stone
The Lotus factory on Longton Road manufactured ladies' shoes. The cutting room was where the various shapes required to make up a shoe were cut from sheets of leather.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's ...
Dairy workers, Fole Dairy, near Uttoxeter
preparation of condensed milk in the old mill building at Fole Dairy.
Fole dairy occupied the site of Fole Mill, originally built in 1771 for Henry Copestake. The Dairy opened in the 1920s and was ...
Decorating Department, Wedgwood Factory, Barlaston,
The operative in the foreground is applying a gold line to the edge of the bone china plate.
Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795) began his apprenticeship as a potter in 1744. He started his own pottery ...
Decorating Shop.
Pottery factory interior showing paintresses and enamellers at work inside a decorating workshop.
The women are seated at long benches and are wearing aprons.
Decorated ewers and basins can be seen ...
Decorating Shop.
Pottery factory interior showing paintresses at work inside a decorating workshop.
They are working on printed and aerographed wares.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Decorating Shop.
Pottery factory interior showing paintresses in a decorating shop.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums. ...
Decorator's Shop.
Pottery factory interior showing paintresses at work inside a decorating shop.
The women appear to be decorating lustre tea pots.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This ...
Dedication service, Brittains Paper Mill, Cheddleton
A group photograph at the dedication service for the No.11 Paper Machine at Brittains Paper Mills, Cheddleton.
Back row (left to right): Aubin Margary, Bill Dykes, John Dickins, unknown, unknown, unknown, ...
Demolition of a bottle oven, Longton
The partly demolished oven on the left was in Sandgate Street (formerly Gate Street) in Longton. Sandgate Street runs north off Uttoxeter road towards the railway line. The oven was probably part of the ...
Demolition of Bottle ovens, Henry Richards' Pinnox Tile Works, Tunstall
Bottle ovens being demolished at the Pinnox Works of Henry Richard's Tiles Ltd. Bert Bentley noted ..."pictures that will never be taken again". These ovens backed onto Williamson Street in Tunstall.
Henry ...
Dennis (Fenton) Pottery, King Street, Fenton
Dennis (Fenton) Pottery operated the Alexandra works on King Street, near Duke Street, until it was sold in 1965 and subsequently demolished.
Design department at Dorman Diesels
Design department at Dorman Diesels factory on Tixall Road. The factory was aquired by Perkins Engine Co Ltd in the 1990's.
Founded by William Henry Dorman in 1870 on Foregate Street, Dorman's began ...
Design Department, Lotus Ltd., Stafford
Don Vickers pictured in the Design Department at the Lotus Shoe Factory in Stafford. This photograph was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded ...
Despatch Warehouse, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a despatch warehouse. The picture shows finished ware stacked in pens ready to be organised into orders and then packed to leave the factory. Taken at Sutherland ...
Dippers at Work.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a dipping house.
The workers are in the process of dipping fired (or biscuit) ware into large barrels of glaze in preparation for a second glost (or glazed) ...
Dipping China. Photographed by William Blake.
Postcard showing china dippers at work in the Potteries, Staffordshire.
On the reverse of the post card it is stated that the image was taken in 1875. However, this date is too early. Blake was not ...
Dipping China. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with pottery workers dipping china. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Dipping China. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with pottery workers dipping china. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.