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Eric Owen, chief modeller at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, creating a vase to a clients specifications. In the foreground are models for a vegetable dish and coffee pots. 1946
A group of female workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, remove newly created articles from their moulds after the liquid state clay was poured in and left to stand for half an hour
Pottery Factory in Stoke on Trent, circa 1946
Mr J Colcough, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, hand painting one of the china plates using a medium of turpentine, fat oil and aniseed. 1946
Seventeen year old Len Mills, apprenticed turner of teapots and teapot lids at a Stoke On Trent pottery, produces between 400 and 500 teapots in and eight and a half hour day
A potter at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, creates a vase on his spinning wheel, using his fingers to shape the article from the inside as well as out. 1946
Mr Joseph Moss, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, operating the profile for platemaking. 1946
Workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, set plates in "saggars"Workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, set plates in " saggars" containing alumina. The saggars are then sealed before being put into the oven. 1946
MR Gs Oakden, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, marking imperfections on bowls which have just been fired, to be removed with a carborundum stone. 1946
A worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, pictured in the mill, where glaze made of borax, lead, stone, whitening and sand and fritted together in a " frit kiln
Olwyn Cotgreave, aged 20, tracing in platinum the outline of the flower design on a dessert plate, one piece in the huge 161 piece dinner set ordered by the King and Queen of England for M
A worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, dips a newly created article into a vat of glaze. 1946
A team of painters at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, fill in the coloured portions of the design applied to the china plates. 1946
Pottery making at Wattisfield Suffolk during the Second World war May 1944 Henry Watsons Pottery
Norah Dunn and Friend working at the Tyneside Pottery, carrying a tray of Mugs February 1944
Boys make pots for the house. June 1936 P012107
Mr. Sinclair-Sweeneys Pottery Factory. Girls packing the crockery for export from the store. April 1949 P018799
