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Ford's Pottery, Newcastle Street, Burslem

Looking southwest along the upper end of Newcastle Street, just outside Burslem. The buildings on the right were part of Ford's Pottery, which extended up from Blake Street. Ford's were an earthenware, ...

Foreman Bill Davis, Lotus Ltd, Stafford

Bill Davis seated at work bench holding a booklet at the Lotus Ltd. shoe factory on Sandon Road, Stafford. Bill was Foreman in the Finishing Department and had started work with Lotus in 1935. Lotus ...

Former Shoe Factory, Stafford,

A shoe factory once occupied this building on Browning Street. In 1966 the premises were used by Goodwin's Removals and Storage. A room on the first floor was used by the Salvation Army as a band ...

Former Tenford Dye Works building, Cheadle

Foundry Square, Norton Green

The houses on the left are on the southern side of Foundry Square. The photograph is taken from Ball Lane looking south west and behind is the higher ground of Norton le Moors. The iron foundry in Norton ...

Foundry workers, Froghall or Oakamoor

Group of workers, probably from Thomas Bolton and Sons copper works at either Froghall or Oakamoor. They are holding foundry tools, including tongs and pokers.

Foundry workers, Siemens Bros. factory, Stafford

Workers at the Foundry at Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Stafford in about 1905. Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich ...

Foundry, Bamfords works, Uttoxeter

A group of visiting students watching worker pouring molten metal into a mould at the foundry of Bamford's works, Pinfold Street, Uttoxeter. Photographer: Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter.

Foundry, W.G. Bagnall's Engineering Works, Stafford,

W.G. Bagnall Ltd. was established in 1870 in Castle Street. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. Eventually ...

Fountain Place Pottery, Westport Road, Burslem

The camera is looking down Westport road from Fountain Place in Burslem. On the left, Alcock's cycle and television shop used to be the corner frontage to Enoch Wood's Fountain Place pottery works. To ...

Fountain Street and City Road, Fenton

This is the crossroads on City Road in Fenton. Fountain Street is off to the right with Glebedale Road in the foreground. City road runs across from left to right. On the right hand side are the kilns ...

Four Lotus Shoes

Charcoal drawing, by Lisa Milroy (born 1959). Lisa Milroy was commissioned by Staffordshire Arts & Museum Service in 2002 to make work in response to the County Museum collection. She chose to produce ...

Fowell and Jones, Rugeley

A sign over the door (centre left) states “Fowell and Jones, Cork Sock Manufacturers”. The building was also known as the Cork Soles Factory. Fowell & Jones were manufacturers of cork socks (linings ...

Fowlea Brook at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north along the course of the Fowlea Brook in Etruria. Off to the right are the furnaces of Shelton Steel Works and in the haze to the left, the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery. The railway ...

Fowlea Brook, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent

The view south from the bridge over the Fowlea Brook just north of Longport Station. At this point the Stoke on Trent City boundary runs along the brook: to the right is Newcastle under Lyme. On the ...

Francis Joule

Portrait, oil on canvas, of Francis Joule, member of the Joule brewing family of Stone. Born Youlgreave, Derbyshire, 21 Feb 1755. Married Sarah Hill of Bolsover, Derbyshire at Youlgreave Church, 15 Feb ...

Frank Astle, Bass Wheelwright, Burton-on-Trent

Bass wheelwright Frank Astle cutting out the blade of a malt shovel using an adze. Frank was 53 years old when this picture was taken.

Frank Birch at Dorman's, Stafford

Frank Birch had been with Dorman’s for over 16 years at the time of this photograph. He is seen here operating a Maxicut machine hobbing the teeth on a gear wheel. Unfinished and finished gears are stacked ...