William Blake Glass Plate Collection
Ceramic Industry
The photographs taken by Blake inside pottery factories are an invaluable record of ceramic manufacturing processes, from preparing the clay, through to packing finished ware ready for transportation around the world.
Coal Strike
Blake’s work shows an awareness and sensitivity to social issues unsurpassed by other photographers working in the area at the same time. Many of his smoky industrial landscapes and pictures of manufacturing processes feature cynical caption...
Industrial
Stoke-on-Trent in the early 20th century was a bustling, industrial centre, with an economy based on pottery manufacture, coal extraction and iron working. Blake photographs depict a landscape scared by clay pits and slag heaps, but often hidden b...
Rural Life
Blake was an acomplished landscape photographer and had a passion for the countryside. Most of his views of rural villages and landscapes were taken in Staffordshire and Cheshire, where Blake captured the dramatic scenery just beyond the grime and...
