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Factory Skyline.
Pottery factory exterior and bottle oven taken at Price Brothers' National Teapot Factory, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. The factory was situated on...
Factory Skyline.
Pottery factory exterior including the Trent And Mersey Canal. Taken at Price Brothers' National Teapot Factory, Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. ...
Great Beauty and Great Riches - A pamphlet concerning the proposed Grand Commercial Canal, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
exhibition A frustrating meeting has taken place at the Star and White Hart Inn, Uttoxeter. Supporters of a scheme to build a new canal in Staffordshire ha...
It's A Pretty Thing -  Stoke-on-Trent! Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial landscape taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This image, with its damning caption, is one of many where Blake is critical of th...
Kingsley Banks. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Kingsley Banks and a barge on the Caldon Canal at Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Meaford Lock, Nr. Stone. Photographed by William Blake.
View of a lock and a horse drawn barge on the Trent & Mersey Canal. This view was taken at Meaford, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire.
Meeting to discuss a new canal from the Trent to the Mersey
document A meeting to discussed a proposed new canal linking the Trent and Mersey has been rescheduled. It will now take place at midday on 1 June 1796, ...
Narrow Boat, Stoke Wharf
This large cargo carrying narrow boat finds itself foundering high and dry at Stoke Wharf. The Trent and Mersey canal passes quietly by, leaving th...
Narrow Boat, Stoke Wharf.
During the 1960’s the use of inland waterways became a popular past time for pleasure seekers. The Trent & Mersey canal had ceased to be used...
People and Potteries. Factories and offices
video Stuart Clamp worked for Johnson Brothers as a Shipping Clerk and Progress Chaser between 1969 and 1971. In this video clip he describes the fact...
People and Potteries. The canal around Dale Hall.
video Kiln fireman Alan Hopwood grew up in Dale Hall and worked for a number of local pottery firms. In this video clip he describes the canal side ar...
Price Brothers' National Teapot Factory.
Factory exterior and bottle oven taken at Price Brothers' National Teapot Factory, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. The factory was situated on the Tre...



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