Description:This is a view southwards from the floor of the Fowlea Brook valley and North Street towards Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill. The line of houses running across in front of the church is Minton Street, and to the left, Vicarage Road.
Before the church was built in 1842, a windmill stood on the site of the church. The open ground in the middle of the photograph is now Hartshill Park, a Norman deer hunting park until the 1400s. In more recent times the area has had a mix of uses: a dumping ground for pottery waste, grazing land for cattle and the site of schools. In 1975 Stoke on Trent City Council bought the land and from 1999 it has been cared for by The Friends of Hartshill Park who aim to renovate the area. The line of North Street has changed with the building of the A500 (Queensway).