Winter scene, Lightwood
Possibly quarries on the Star and Garter Road area of Lightwood.
Mr Carl Copeland has kindly provided some further information about this image:
"This is a photograph of Naybro House on Star & Garter ...
Norton cricket ground and Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking north east from bottom of Harold Street, Smallthorne before the housing estates were developed. They now occupy the open space in the foreground.
The spoil tip belonged ...
Trent & Mersey Canal and Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery.
Looking south along the Trent & Mersey Canal towards the rolling mills of Shelton Steel Works in the distance. The large building in the centre is the Royal Staffordshire Pottery of A J Wilkinson Ltd., ...
Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery, Middleport
A J Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. The works originated as the Mersey Pottery, operated by Anthony Shaw from around 1860, becoming the property ...
Shelton Steelworks from Middleport, Stoke-pn-Trent
The camera is looking south from the Navigation Street area towards the site of Shelton Steel and Iron Works. the buildings in the centre of the photograph are the mills and furnaces of the steelworks. ...
Wolstanton Colliery from Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking south down the Fowlea Brook valley. Ricardo Street is no more, mostly lying under Middleport Park. The two winding gear towers are clearly visible and running across ...
Middleport Park bowling green, Stoke-on-Trent
Midleport Park dates from around 1908 when the park was laid out in the grounds of the former rectory of St John's Church. It lies alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal, between the potworks in Middleport ...
Entrance to Shelton Steel & Iron Works, Newport Lane, Middleport
ooking south near the end of Newport Lane at one of the entrances to Shelton Steel Works. The buildings on the right, partly hidden by the Shelton signboard, is Oliver's Mill with its calcining oven. ...
Longport Station, Stoke-on-Trent
Longport Station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1848 but was named Burslem station. It became Longport in 1873 when Burslem station on the Loop Line opened. This is the view north from ...
Fowlea Brook, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The view south from the bridge over the Fowlea Brook just north of Longport Station. At this point the Stoke on Trent City boundary runs along the brook: to the right is Newcastle under Lyme. On the ...
The Grange, Burslem
The camera is looking south towards Shelton iron and steel works and the headgear of Wolstanton Colliery. The photograph was taken from the bridge near the northern end of the Grange mineral railway line.
The ...
Bull Lane, near Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent
A view east along Bull Lane towards Brindley Ford in the Lane Ends area. The camera was just east of Handley Street. There has been much housing development in the area and that in the photograph is ...
Lane Ends Farm and Victoria Colliery tip, Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking roughly north east from Lane Ends Farm at the end of Handley Street, near Packmoor. The spoil tip on the right belonged to Victoria (Black Bull) Colliery. The colliery operated between ...
Rodgers Street Church, Goldenhill
The non-conformist church in Rodgers Street (formerly Williamson Street) in Goldenhill. Shannon Drive is off to the left.
Christ Church in Goldenhill was founded in 1873 when there was an evangelical ...
Footrail near Gill Bank, Goldenhill
This abandoned footrail (or footrill or adit) was just south of Woodstock Road west of Gill Bank. A footrail was a horizontal or gently sloping passage leading into a shallow mine usually on the side ...
Goldenhill Workingmen's Club, Stoke-on-Trent
The Workingmen's Club in Goldenhill was at number 875 High Street in the 1960s. It later moved to a new site at the corner of High Street and Mobberley Road. On the extreme left hand edge is Stonier's ...
Aubrey Street, Latebrook and Goldenhill, Stoke-on-Trent
The short row of houses are on Aubrey Street (formerly Myatt Street) in Latebrook. The camera is looking south from the area of Gill Bank and Gill Bank Road. In then far distance is the site of the Goldendale ...
Biddulph Road, Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking northwards along Biddulph Road (A527) at the northern end of Fegg Hayes. The bridge in the centre carried the Biddulph Valley Branch railway line. The railway bridge ...