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Price's Pottery Factory.
Pottery factory exterior and bottle kiln. Taken at Price's pottery factory in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. This view includes the Trent and Mers...
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company wharf Buildings, Burslem Branch Canal
This plan shows the wharf building owned by the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company. The building sat on the Burslem branch of the Trent and...
Staffordshire Pottery Manufacturers discuss Crime on the Canals -  Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
exhibition At the meeting described in this pamphlet, pottery manufacturers complained that their wares were regularly stolen in transit on the canals - despi...
Stoke Wharf. Circa 1966. Photographed by Alan Self
The old wharf buildings on the Trent and Mersey canal await demolition in the mid 1960’s. The land was earmarked for the A500 D-road to c...
The Bridge, Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
Winter landscape with a view of Consall Mill Bridge spanning the Caldon Canal at Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Bridge, Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
Winter landscape with a view of Consall Mill Bridge spanning the Caldon Canal at Consall, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Canal, Stoke-on-Trent. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of Stoke Clay Wharf. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake en...
The Canal, Stoke-on-Trent. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of Stoke Clay Wharf. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake en...
Trent & Mersey canal, Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Although hardly used in the early 1960’s this image shows the canal in a good state of repair. Pleasure craft used this main trunk canal, as ...
Trent and Mersey Canal, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
This is the Trent and Mersey Canal in Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. The importance of the canals to the ceramic industry is well illustrated by the...
Trent and Mersey Canal, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent
The Trent and Mersey canal was built by James Brindley between 1766 and 1777 and transported raw materials and finished goods to and from a large n...
Twyford's Canal Bank Works.
Pottery factory exterior including bottle ovens and a canal. Taken at Twyford's Canal Bank Works, by the Trent and Mersey canal bridge on Shelto...



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