26 stunning images of Burslem from times gone by In the early 1960s, Stoke-on-Trent Archive Services commissioned local photographer Bert Bentley to document the changing face of the city. During that time the landscape of the city was changing with the demolition of old factories, public houses and rows upon rows of terraced streets in the council's 'slum clearance' programme. In 2016, the archive service within Hanley Library allowed The Sentinel access to this vast collection in order to digitise the images, most of which hadn't been seen for nearly 50 years, for future generations.
BERT BENTLEY ARCHIVE - BURSLEM - Swan Bank. Central Methodist School & Chapel House. Park Road. View east up Dartmouth Street.
1 of 26 Packhorse Lane. Rear of Fords Pottery showing Enoch Woods original gates and base of windmill. VCH.
2 of 26 Pitt Street East. Ind Coopes Brewery Stores. Old Parkers Brewery Co.
3 of 26 Pitt Street West. The Old Mitre Inn near St Johns Church.
4 of 26 Dalehall. Port Vale Street: slum clearance. Old works/shops.
5 of 26 Queen Street. View from top of waterloo Road.
6 of 26 St John's Square. View across from William Clowes Street.
7 of 26 Queen Street. Johnsons Melia's and Cliff's (shops)
8 of 26 Junction Queen Street/Wm. Clowes Street. The Star Inn.
9 of 26 Richard Haywood Street. The Sytch: slum clearance.
10 of 26 Scotia Road. Cobridge Brick & Marl Co. Scotia Road. Brick Works. Hoffmann Tunnel ovens.
11 of 26 Scotia Road. The Potteries Motor Traction Co. Depot.
12 of 26 View towards Burslem. Loop line railway bridge, Scotia Road.
13 of 26 Off Scotia Road. Cobridge Brick & Marl Co. Fireclay pit looking north. This was flooded out in one night, having struck old colliery workings of Scotia Colliery. Tunstall St. Chad R.C. Church in distance. Composite A1.
14 of 26 Off Scotia Street. Cobridge Brick & Marl Co. Fireclay pit looking east. Composite A3.
15 of 26 Silvester Street. Slum clearance. Doulton Royal Pottery on left.
16 of 26 Top of Silvester Street. View of Arrowsmiths, Harvey & Goddards Potteries in Harvey Road (Sneyd Terrace)
17 of 26 Sneyd Terrace. Entrance to Sneyd Colliery. Shafts and headgear.
18 of 26 Loop line railway: view off Harvey Road/Sneyd Terrace railway bridge, looking towards Burslem station. Baths to left, Moorland Road senior schools to right.
19 of 26 Harvey Road (Sneyd Terrace) Side view of Moorland Road Junior School 1908-10
20 of 26 Spa Street. Supreme Salt Co. Ltd. Distributing centre.
21 of 26 St. Johns Schools from churchyard. Primary school in foreground.
22 of 26 Stanley Street. William Kent Porcelain Pottery Ltd.
23 of 26 Steventon Place. J. Steventon & Sons Pottery. Old chapel where John Wesley preached is now embodied as a workshop in the pottery. See VCH.
24 of 26 Steventon Place. J. Steventon & Sons Pottery, interior. Bottle ovens and mineral stores.
25 of 26 Swan Bank. Central Methodist School & Chapel House.
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