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Newfield High Street, Tunstall

The camera is looking north along Newfield High Street (A50). Alfred Meakin's Newfield Pottery works in on the right. The square building just beyond Marble Fireplaces is an electricity sub station. Both ...

North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Hartshill

This aerial photograph shows the hospital at Hartshill, near Newcastle-under-Lyme during the process of expansion. The tall Italianate style building in the centre of the picture was a water tower and ...

Pipe laying near Normacot Church

The school and church can be seen. The pipes being laid are possibly sewer pipes. The Holy Evangelists Church was built on the south side of Upper Belgrave Road as a chapel of ease for Blurton Church ...

Post Lane Road, Endon

Looking north along Post Lane from the end of Stanley Bank. Beyond the trees on the left is the Endon Cricket Club ground. The building work on the right is for the electricity substation. The cottages ...

Royal Scot at Etruria

In the age of steam, expresses between London and Scotland were a regular sight in the Potteries. This service, passing the gasometer at Etruria, is hauled by 4-6-0 locomotive number 46149 The Middlesex ...

Stanley Pool

The dam at the north west end of Stanley Pool. Built in 1786 as an 8 acre (3¼ hectare) reservoir to supply water for the nearby Caldon Canal, the pool was enlarged to 33 acres (13 hectares) in 1840 ...

Stockton Brook waterworks and Caldon Canal.

The view west along the Caldon Canal with the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company's Stockton Brook pumping station on the right. A successful trial borehole was drilled in 1882 into the underlying Millstone ...

Stoke on Trent City Electricity and Destructor Works, Yeaman Street, Stoke-on-Trent

This photograph shows the site of Stoke on Trent City Electricity and (refuse) Destructor Works in Yeaman Street. In the background are the chimneys and kilns of the Minton Works on London Road. Yeaman ...

Stoke to Leek railway at Stockton Brook

A view west along the Stoke to Leek branch line from the short tunnel at Stokton Brook. To the right is the, now demolished, chimney of Stockton Brook waterworks, with the works roof just visible. The ...

Stoke-on-Trent Corporation Electricty Works on the Caldon Canal, Hanley

The Corporation Electricity Works is on the right hand side with Harrison's Mill opposite. Further down is Goodwin's flint mill. In the centre are the ovens of Howson's sanitary ware woks (the Eastwood ...

Stone Road from the Hanford roundabout, Stoke-on-Trent

A view south along the A34 (Stone Road) from Hanford roundabout. Here, from 1962, the A34 met the M6 link road and later the A500 (Queensway). The River Trent flows just behind the electricity sub station ...

Sun Street, Shelton

Looking west along Sun Street from close to the old entrance to Hanley Greyhound Stadium. Clyde Street runs off to the left. On the right, on the corner of Mount Pleasant, is the Shoulder of Mutton public ...

The Gas House, Trentham Gardens, Trentham

The gas house stood on Park Drive beyond the Smithy. Occupying an old quarry, the house was linked to a gas works, complete with gas holder, which made coal gas to light Trentham Hall. The mid 19th century ...

The old blast engine house in Ravensdale, Tunstall

The ruins are the engine house and chimney of a iron works blast engine. The photograph was taken near Copp Lane alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal looking south east towards Burslem. The tower of ...

The station and gasworks, Longton

Photograph taken looking east, St. James's church can be seen in the distance. The entrance to the yard was by Murdoch St. This is the now site of the Tesco super store and car park.

The view south from Stanley Farm, Stanley

This is a view south from Stanley Village over Stanley Pool towards, on the right, the higher ground of Bagnall. Stanley Pool is a reservoir originally built in 1786, and later expanded, to supply water ...

The view west from Edgefield Lane, Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking over "Crosswinds" bungalow south west from the higher ground of Stockton Brook. The chimney in the left centre (now demolished) belonged to Stockton Brook water Pumping Station and the waste tip ...

The Werrington Hotel, Bucknall

Opened as the Werrington Hotel in 1939, later becoming the Pig and Whistle before being renamed The Werrington, this Ind Coope public house was demolished in the 1990s. To the left is Eaves Lane with ...