Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip from Bank Haye Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north along the Bank Haye Brook valley towards the waste tip of Chatterley Whitfield colliery. Mow Cop appears faintly on the horizon to the left of the photograph beyond the electricity pylons. ...
Norton in the Moors from Chell Heath Road
The photograph is looking east from Chell Heath Road across the Bank Haye Brook valley towards Norton in the Moors. Towards the right edge of the photograph is the tower of Norton Church (St Bartholomew's). ...
Two spoil tips from Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent
The view north from the junction of Milton Road and Repington Road in Sneyd Green. In the far distance is Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip with the tip belonging to Norton Colliery in front. To the right ...
Bank Haye Brook Valley from Burslem Golf Course
The view south from the edge of Burslem Golf Course towards Smallthorne. Norton and Sneyd Colliery spoil tips are to the right edge. The large hole in the foreground belongs to Acres Wood Brickworks, ...
Bank Haye Brook valley, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking south along the Biddulph Valley branch line. This section is between Black Bull (behind the camera) to Ford Green and the photograph was taken from the Whitfield Mill crossing. Off to the left ...
Bank Haye Brook, Brindley Ford
A view along the Bank haye Brook just east of Brindley Ford village. The stream is emerging from a culvert beneath the path to Bemersely Farm. The brook is just over 6 miles (10km) long and is the first ...
Ball Green Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the final stages in the building of Ball Green Primary School, taken in May 1964 just four months before the school opened. Just off Whitfield Road, the school is next to Fir Tree ...
Norton Colliery from Harrison Road, Norton-in-the-Moors
Norton Colliery is in the centre foreground just beyond the houses. The spoil tip on the horizon belongs to Sneyd Colliery and the flatter, lower ground in between is the valley of the Bank Haye Brook. ...
Knypersley Road, Norton-in-the-Moors
The Norton Arms public house stands on the corner of Endon Road and Knypersley Road. Ford Green Road is coming in from the left and the cameraman was standing at the end of Norton Lane. The houses and ...
Brickhouse Street, Burslem
The photograph shows the narrow alleyway at the Market Place end of Brickhouse Street, which connects Queen Street with Market Place in Burslem. It runs alongside the Wedgwood Institute. The Bookmaker's ...
Classroom, Brownhills High School, Burslem
A typical 1950s classroom. The photograph is of an unidentified 5th form. The original Brownhills Hall School opened in 1927 as an all girls' college, became a grammar school, was completely rebuilt in ...
Stone Road, Longton
The recreation ground in the process of construction.
Leveson Street, Longton
A view of Leveson Street in Longton, a side-street off Trentham Road, taken during the demolition of Ladycote Terrace.
Village store and coffee house, Oakamoor
During the 1890s, this building doubled as both a village store and coffee house, serving the village of Oakamoor.
It must have been quite a novelty for such a small village to have a coffee house; ...
Fenton Engineering Technical School
The Honours List at the former Athenaeum building, covering the years 1914 to 1925. Fenton School of Art was set up in 1889 by William Meath Baker in the old Fenton Athenaeum, which had been opened in ...
Queen's Cinema Palace, Jupiter Street. Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent
This cinema was on the north side of Jupiter Street (formerly King Street South) near the corner of Mars Street, just off Ford Green Road. Around the time this photograph was taken, the Palace became ...
Building the City Central Library, Bethesda Street, Hanley
This photograph was taken during the early stages of the building of the City Central Library and Archives in Bethesda Street. On the left is the chimney attached to the boiler house and on the right ...
City Central Library and Art Gallery & Museum, Bethesda Street, Hanley
This photograph is looking over the foundations of the City Central Library and Archives building towards the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. This photograph was taken in 1968, before the museum building ...