Banded decorated jug and bowls
Earthenware jug and bowls. Height of jug 110mm. Banding was used either on its own or in conjunction with other types of decoration. A slip-bottle was filled with slip and the opening sealed with a ...
Bricesco, Milvale Street, Middleport
The Burslem Works of British Ceramic Service Co. (Bricesco) in Milvale Street in Middleport. The works were at the corner of Milvale Street and Burgess Street and ran along the Trent & Mersey Canal. The ...
British Ceramic Research Labs, Queen's Road, Penkhull
This photograph shows the side of the British Ceramics Research Labs building on Queen's Road in Penkhull. The photograph was taken from Franklin Road. The houses on the extreme left are on Queen's Road. ...
Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall
George Edwards' Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. Also known as Bucknall Flint Mill it stands on the old mill stream or race taken off the River Trent near Finney Gardens. Ground bone and flint revolutionised ...
Bucknall Flint Mill, Ruxley Road, Bucknall
The courtyard of Edwards' Bucknall Flint Mill on Ruxley Road. On the left is a pile of Cornish stone (or China stone) ready for smashing and grinding by the stone crusher alongside. About 1747 it was ...
Calcining kilns at Bucknall Flint Mill, Rixley Road, Bucknall
A pair of calcining kilns at George Edwards' Bucknall Flint Mill with their load of flint nodules after roasting (calcining).
Adding ground flint and bone (up to 50%), gives ware strength, whiteness ...
Caldon Canal near Pyenest Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Taken from close to the Stoke Road (A5006) bridge, the camera is looking west along the Caldon Canal. In the distance is one of the now demolished gas holders of the Etruria Gas Works on Etruscan Street. ...
Ceramics works, Normacot Road, Longton
The building on the left was the offices of Shaw & Copestake Ltd., the producers of fancy earthenware with the Sylvac mark. They had factories nearby on Normacot Road and Chadwick Street. The building ...
Colin McNeal Ltd, Ashford Street, Shelton.
Colin McNeal, ceramic materials supplier on the corner of Stoke Road and Ashford Street, Shelton. The company advertised themselves as suppliers of "all materials for the Potter". Colin McNeal also occupied ...
Colour Grinding Mill, Froghall
A portable, steam driven ore grinding pan at the Colour Mill Works at Froghall, believed to be grinding limestone and haematite for the pottery industry. On the left is a gravity wash sluice and 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 ...
Entrance to bottle oven, J Steventon & Sons, Burslem
The entrance or "wicket" to a biscuit bottle oven at J Steventon's Royal Pottery in Burslem. The wicket was used to place the ware in the oven. For firing the opening was bricked up and sealed with clay ...
Entrance to Shelton Steel & Iron Works, Newport Lane, Middleport
ooking south near the end of Newport Lane at one of the entrances to Shelton Steel Works. The buildings on the right, partly hidden by the Shelton signboard, is Oliver's Mill with its calcining oven. ...
Etruria Vale Mills on the Caldon Canal, Stoke-on-Trent
On the left is Mellor's Minerals flint mill on the Caldon Canal off Etruria Vale Road (to the left). The camera is looking north along the canal with the (now demolished) houses on Bedford Street in the ...
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 ...
Frederick Wildblood
Frederick Wildblood, founder and owner of the Blythe Colour Works at Cresswell, set up to provide colours, enamels and glazes for the pottery industry. He lived at Ash House on Cheadle Road, Blythe Bridge....
Free Hand Painting, Wedgwood Factory, Barlaston,
Miss Millicent Taplin, head of the free hand painting department is standing to the right in the photograph.
The design shown here was referred to affectionately at the Wedgwood Factory as 'Shrimp' ...
Furlong Lane from Newport Lane, Middleport
The camera is looking northwards along Furlong Lane from the Newport Lane corner. On the left, the first building, then shops, still stands and is offices. Further down on the right hand side are the ...