WILLIAM BLAKE: PHOTOGRAPHER

WILLIAM BLAKE: PHOTOGRAPHERWilliam Blake was born in 1874. He was a photographer and stationer based in Longton. His most famous photographs are known as the smokies, such as the wryly captioned Fresh Air for The Potteries. They depict the landscape of smoking chimneys and industry that once dominated the area from the late 18th Century to the mid 20th Century. But Blake didnt restrict himself to industrial landscapes. He travelled throughout The Potteries and into the adjacent

in later years

and at the Sutherland Works the last ever bottle oven firing in 1978

Clocking In

William Blake was born in 1874

and adds background and additional information to enhance the fascinating archive film sequences

Penkhull is a picturesque hilltop village within the City of Stoke-on-Trent

Nine Tenths Below

CAMPAIGN TO SAVE LONGTON TOWN HALL

and give a vivid impression of nursing techniques of the past

This documentary charts the history of the “Mitch” from the wartime appeal for a memorial to Reginald Mitchell through to its opening in 1957 and on through 60 years of plays

Cunard had built the largest and fastest liners in Lusitania and Mauritania

Her tragic maiden voyage was to bring about key changes in the law and the mode of sea travel