Berry Hill Mines Rescue Station, Hanley
This was originally the pithead baths building of Berry Hill Colliery. The colliery closed in 1959 and the old baths were converted into the North Staffs Rescue Station, opening in 1962. The station had ...
Archbishop McIntyre School, Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent
Students at Archbishop McIntyre Roman Catholic Secondary School on Birches Head Road in Hanley. The school later became a Junior High School before closing (after amalgamation with Blessed William Southerne). ...
Archbishop McIntyre School, Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent
Archbishop McIntyre Roman Catholic Secondary (later Junior High) School was on Birches Head Road in Hanley. The school amalgamated with blessed William Southerne to become St Margaret Ward. The buildings ...
Gog Rock. Photographed by William Blake.
Gog Rock, Stakebank Wood, Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Chatterley Whitfield mineral line bridge in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north along Chell Heath Road towards Oxford Road in Fegg Hayes. The bridge is carrying the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (off to the right) into Tunstall and ...
St Michael's Anglican Mission Church, Bucknall Old Road, Hanley
The brick built St Michael and All Saints Mission Church was opened around 1912. It was a mission church of St Luke's in the Wellington area of Hanley. It stood on Bucknall Old Road just before the junction ...
Old Town Road and Deep Pit Colliery, Hanley
The view from the end of Old Town road towards Deep Pit Colliery with the winding gear in the centre. The curved building on the right belongs to H & E Smith, tile and fireplace manufacturers.
Deep ...
Nelson Pottery and the Caldon Canal, Hanley
This is a photograph of Elijah Cotton's Nelson Pottery taken from the Caldon Canal which ran alongside the southern side of the factory. The bridge carrying Botteslow Street over the canal is in the middle ...
Hanley Tabernacle, Town Road, Hanley
The Congregational Independent Tabernacle Church was founded in Hanley in 1784, a Mission Hall was built in 1879 and the church in the photograph built on Town Road (then known as High Street) in 1883. ...
Hanley Station
Hanley station was on a sharp curve in a deep cutting just below Trinity Street, opposite the Grand Hotel. This is the view looking westwards along the line to Etruria.
This was the second station ...
Hanley Station
The main entrance and booking hall of Hanley Station on the Potteries Loop Line. This photograph was taken from just outside the Grand Hotel in Trinity Street. The line is in a deep cutting below the ...
Hanley Post Office, Tontine Street, Hanley
Hanley's main Post Office stood in Tontine Street. The grade II listed building was built in 1906 on open ground that once housed Batty's Circus. The three storey building, designed by John Rutherford, ...
Hanley Deep Pit Colliery
The winding gear of No.1 shaft of Deep Pit Colliery in Hanley. This photograph was taken from Town Road with one of the conical spoil tips just visible behind the winding gear.
Hanley Deep pit was ...
H & E Smith, Britannia Works, Hanley
H & E Smith is a specialist tile manufacturer with a factory on Old Town Road in Hanley. Founded in 1926 as Smith & Warrilow, the company became H & E Smith in 1948. They specialised in the manufacture ...
Fegg Hayes Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke-on-Trent
Fegg Hayes Primitive Methodist Chapel stood at the corner of East Terrace and Fegg Hayes Road. Also known as the Lear Memorial Chapel, the building dates from 1882 although later extended. The red brick ...
Fegg Hayes Methodist Church, Stoke-on-Trent
Fegg Hayes Methodist Church stood on the corner of Fegg Hayes Road (formerly North Parade) and Oxford Road. it was opened in 1874 and originally known as the North Parade Wesleyan Chapel.
The church ...
Dogcroft Road, Chell Heath, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from close to the junction of Dogcroft Road and Chell Heath Road. The camera is looking north eastwards along Dogcroft Road towards Ball Green. On the higher ground to the right ...
Canal lift bridge, Ivy House Road, Hanley
This lift or draw bridge (number 11) carries Ivy House Road over the Caldon Canal. Over the bridge to the left, and alongside the canal, was J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery. Demolished in 2005, the land ...