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At a Meeting - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

Post in the Potteries - 1801 In 1801 a national postal system using a fleet of coaches was growing in coverage but still did not directly serve the Potteries. Many towns and cities not served by ...

Burslem Co-operative Society Ltd., Birches Head Road, Birches Head. Circa 1900

The local co-operative shop and post office at Birches Head. The Co-operative Society was set up to protect working class consumers from unscrupulous shopkeepers selling foodstuffs that had been tampered ...

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, ...

Normacot Post Office, Longton

G. Colley's shop, Normacot Post Office at 75 Upper Normacot Road.

Post Office & Schools, Ipstones. Photographed by William Blake.

Village scene taken at Ipstones, Nr. Leek, Staffordshire. The scene includes the village post office and school.

Post Office, 107 Mayne Street, Hanford.

Mayne Street Post Office is presently in use as a domestic dwelling and dates to before 1832. It is rectangular in shape and is two rooms wide by one room deep with a two storey rear projection.

Smallthorne Post Office, 111 Ford Green Road

Occupying the corner site of Ford Green Road and Robert Heath Street, this two storey rectangular building has a modern shop frontage with post office sign aside the single door. It was constructed between ...

The Post Office, Critchlows Corner, Blurton

Situated on the very edge of Longton’s urban sprawl one could be fooled into thinking that this is a quiet country scene. To the left the embankment carries the mineral railway line to Florence Colliery, ...

The Proprieters of the Light Post Coach - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

Post coach in the Potteries - Finally! The national post coach service begins to run through the Potteries as part of the London to Liverpool service. The Potteries had been trying to get this service ...

Trentham Gardens Ballroom

During the Second World War (1939 to 1945) the Central Bank was moved from London to Trentham Gardens as a precaution against bombing. The staff, mainly female, worked long hours here in very difficult ...

Union Inn, Measham, March 31st 1796 - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

Post in the Potteries - 1796 In 1796 a national postal system using a fleet of coaches was growing in coverage but still did not directly serve the Potteries. Many towns and cities not served by ...

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