Boyce Adams shop, Piccadilly, Hanley
Boyce Adams' grocers shop at 32 Piccadilly dates from 1877. In 1962 the company had eleven other shop in the Potteries, with branches as far afield as Alsager and Congleton. The top floor was a café ...
Factory Dinning Room. Photographed by William Blake.
View of a factory canteen. Unknown location.
Factory Dinning Room. Photographed by William Blake.
View of a factory canteen. Unknown location.
Old entrance to Trentham Gardens, Stone Road, Trentham
The original entrance to the leisure gardens at Trentham was between the two large "lodges" just to the right of the three PMT (Potteries Motor Traction) buses. The lodges were originally at the western ...
Telephone Exchange, Hanley
The old telephone exchange building stands on the corner of Trinity Street and Marsh Street North in Hanley. The four storey brick building was opened in 1900 but has been replaced by the large telecommuncations ...
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; ...