Stoke City FC, Victoria Ground
The view south along Butler Street to the Butler Street Stand entrance to the Victoria Ground. The stand is visible beyond the gates. This is the route many supporters took to the ground from Stoke. ...
Stoke City FC, The Victoria Ground
The playing area at the Victoria Ground. Looking towards the Main Stand or Boothen Stand from the covered part of the Boothen End. The Stoke End to the right is still open terraces and wouldn't be covered ...
Stoke City FC, The Victoria Ground
The photograph shows the main stand on Boothen Old Road. Above the turnstile entrances can be seen ticket prices. For a first team game, in the Boothen Stand it cost 50 pence for a seat (ten shillings ...
Spoutfield Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photographs shows some of the intermittent coal fired brick and tile ovens at John Caddick & Sons Spoutfields Tilery. The tilery was on the corner of Brick Kiln Lane and Shelton New Road in Cliff ...
Spoutfield Tilery, Stoke-on-Trent
Coal fired beehive ovens with their chimneys at John Caddick & Sons Spoutfield Tilery at the corner of Brick Kiln Lane and Shelton New Road. Just below the iron bands around the oven can be seen the ...
Stoke City FC, The Victoria Ground
This is a view of the Butler Street Stand from the covered part of the Boothen End Stand. It was built in 1935, just at the time when Stanley Matthews was drawing crowds to watch Stoke City. There were ...
Stoke City FC, The Victoria Ground.
Stoke City FC played at the Victoria Ground for 119 years, until May 1997. This is the view from the Boothen End towards the Stoke End of the ground. The Stoke End was open until a stand was built in ...
Boothen Old Road, Stoke upon Trent
A view south from just outside the Boothen Stand at Stoke City's old Victoria Ground. Boothen Old Road is to the left and Lime Street to the right. The corner shop in the centre is now a house but the ...
Stoke City FC Supporters' Social Club
This is the supporter's club building on the corner of Gable Street and Boothen Old Road, just outside the ground and across the road from the Boothen Stand. The houses behind face onto Campbell Road. ...
Stoke on Trent Central Ambulance Station, Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the old Central Ambulance Station at the south end of Boothen Old Road. The station had a group of three Nissen huts. It was closed in 1967 and relocated to Harpfields. Five ambulances ...
Blurton Primary Schools
In the foreground are the buildings of Blurton Junior and Infants' Schools, opened in 1948. To the left are more modern buildings, with the original "prefab" classroom to the right. The houses immediately ...
The Fowlea Brook near Ravensdale, Tunstall
Looking south from beside the Fowlea Brook towards the Talke Chemical Company's sulphuric acid works (left) and the National Benzole petroleum works (right). Behind is the higher land of Bradwell Woods. ...
Trent & Mersey Canal from Limekiln Bridge, Trentham
The view south along the Trent & Mersey Canal from Limekiln Bridge. The bridge is just north of Jonathan Road which was built after this photograph was taken. Round the corner is Trentham Lock. The areas ...
The Royal Hotel, Westport Road, Burslem.
The Royal Hotel stood at 20 Liverpool Road (renamed Westport Road), next door to the Ryal or Hill Pottery. The top of a bottle oven is just peeking over the roof of the hotel. Parker's Ales supplied beer ...
The old bakery, King Street, Fenton
Standing on the corner of Baron Street and King Street in Fenton, the Overhead Line Fittings Ltd warehouse was originally a bakery. It was the site of the earliest automatic bakery in North Staffordshire, ...
Wenger's Colour Works, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Wenger's Ceramic Colour and Chemical Works on Etruria Road, at the bottom of Basford Bank. The works lay between Garner Street and the railway station at Etruria, the signals can be seen to the left ...
Brammer Street, Bradeley, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east along Brammer Street from the junction with Moorland View. Brammer Street was formerly South Street. In the 1890s Bradeley was a village of just three streets. At the bottom of the street ...
Marquis of Granby public house, Penkhull
The Marquis of Granby stands at the junction of roads to the north of Penkhull Green. It is believed that an inn has stood on this site since around the 1770s, with the present building dating from the ...