Posts by Andrew Smith
Furniture dealer, Burslem, Stoke on Trent
Early 1970s
#photography #blackandwhite
Extract from Tristram Hunt’s #TheRadicalPotter: The backstamp still retains great popular appeal within the Potteries. A Stoke-on-Trent native is easily identified by their natural, instinctive desire to turn over any piece of pottery to see where it was made.
#BackstampClub
#TurnoverClub
Absolutely stunning
Mablethorpe sunrise
Mablethorpe sunset
Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe
First time at The House of Lawrence tonight to see James & the Giant Peach. Absolutely brilliant show and my youngest loved it too. If you've never been you should check them out #StokeOnTrent #ThePotteries
🔥Yet another fire in a derelict listed building raises urgent questions about securing our nationally important sites.
Read SAVE's response here⬇️ www.savebritainsheritage.org/news/devasta...
And now look what happened 😢
And just like that the hole is gone
Longton Colour Works/Jesse Cyples Colour Works. Gaping hole in the wall but looks like it's being done up. #StokeOnTrent #ThePotteries
Sherd of white porcelain from a plate stamped with the initials G VI R (for George VI) and the name GRINDLEY with the date 1942. This was specially made utilitarian pottery for the war effort.
Sherd of plain white porcelain from the foreshore. On the back stamped with the initials GVIR (George VI) and the maker & date - GRINDLEY 1942. This was wartime utilitarian pottery, plain & unpatterned ‘cos colours/design cost money. During WW2 W.H. Grindley & Co Ltd were based in Stoke-on-Trent 1/
Light of the City - Stoke on Trent
Priory Hall, Dudley
Dudley Priory
Toad season down Berryhill Fields
The Potteries Parthenon #Burslem #ThePotteries #StokeonTrent
The Gamekeeper, Normacot. Fenced off to protect the public from falling debris. Soon to be lost forever #ThePotteries
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So...my Dad sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely gutted.
Lots of people I know from outside of the city still think of it like this. Change is not happening fast enough