Alton Castle
View of Alton Castle in 1910.
This image appeared in the North Staffordshire Railway's pocket book of places of interest along its routes.
The image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet ...
Alton Castle
View of Alton Castle taken in 1910.
This image appeared in the North Staffordshire Railway's pocket book of places of interest along its routes.
This image is featured by kind permission of the ...
Lyme Brook valley and Buckmaster Avenue, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the old Clayton bridle track, looking west towards the back of the houses on Buckmaster Avenue. The Lyme Brook runs across the photograph, marked by the line of bushed beyond ...
The Black Lion, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The Black mLion Inn stands at the junction of London Road and Newcastle Road (where it becomes Stone Road). On the beam over the window in the left hand gable is the inscription "B Co Ltd" and "AD1899". ...
Springfields Hotel, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The Springfields Hotel stands on the corner of Newcastle Road (A34) and Clayton Lane. The grade II listed building was later renamed The Orange Tree around 2009. The red brick building was originally ...
Springfields County School, Wheatly Avenue, Stoke-on-Trent
These post-war buildings were the site of Springfields County Junior School. The photohgraph is taken from, the Wheatly Avenue entrance. Now demolished, the land is part of St John's Church of England ...
Springfields Schools from the A34, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view looking eastwards from the car park of the Springfields Hotel (now The Orange Tree) towards the Springfields Schools. The A34 (Newcastle Road) runs across the photograph in the foreground. ...
Riverside Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking westwards along Riverside Road in Trent Vale. The photograph was taken from the close to the junction with Stone Road. The houses on both sides date from after 1945, the earliest on the right ...
Sideway from Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent
This was the view eastwards from Rookery Lane towards the Staffordshire Collieries and Iron works in Sideway. Alongside are the spoil tips of the coal and iron works. This is now the site of the Bet 365 ...
St Joseph's College, Stoke-on-Trent
The main entrance from London Road on the north side of St Joseph's College, a school founded by the Christian Brothers in 1932. These buildings date from 1936. Originally a boys' grammar school, the ...
Hem Heath Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph shows the main entrance to Hem Heath Colliery off Trentham Road.
The first shaft at Hem Heath was started in 1924 for the Stafford Coal and Iron Company with the second started after ...
Flash Lane Nursery School, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The nursery school in Flash Lane was built in the late 1940s or early 1950s, with babies' bibs drying on the wooden clothes horses. This is the main entrance off Flash Lane. It is one of a number of pre ...
Harpfield Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north east up Harpfield Road from close to the junction with Newcastle Road (A34). The road curves round towards the roundabout at Keelings Drive, off the photograph. Flash Lane ...
Keelings Drive, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph is taken from the corner of London Road in Trent Vale. The camera is looking north west along Keelings Drive. The western part of Keelings Drive, leading to Newcastle Road (A34) was developed ...
Hawthorne Cottage in Leaside Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
Hawthorne Cottage is at the bottom of Leaside Road. It was originally just the far side of the Stoke to Newcastle Canal, now filled in. The date tablet on the gable end reads 1849. This photograph is ...
London Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The view southwards along London Road. The flats at the bottom are at the junction with Newcastle Road (A34). Elphinstone Road (formerly Lincoln Road) goes off to the left with the groceries and provisions ...
Grove Lodge, London Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
Grove Lodge stood at the main entrance to Charles Elphinstone's High Grove House (off to the right). This is now part of St Joseph's College. Grove Lodge first appears as The Lodge on the 1901 OS Map. ...
Mazda Lamps factory and Mother's Pride Bakery, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The industrial site on the far side of Newcastle Road (A34) had two factories. Farthest away from the camera is the Mother's Pride Bakery. This was part of Premier Foods group. Between the 1960s and ...