The Midland Bank building, Market Street, Longton
This is the old Midland Bank building on the corner of Railway Passage and Market Street in Longton. A date tablet over the door states "Established 1836", the year of the founding of the Birmingham ...
The North Stafford Hotel, Stoke-on-Trent
The main entrance to North Stafford Hotel in Winton Square, from Station Road. The building dates from 1863 but is Elizabethan and Jacobean in style. It was built as an integral part of Stoke Station ...
The old library and museum buildings in Pall Mall, Hanley
A view down Pall Mall towards the Piccadilly crossroads with the old library, art gallery and museum on the left. Closest to the camera is the original City Library which itself was originally a school ...
The Organ, Checkley Church. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior with a view of the organ at St. Mary & All Saints Church, Church Lane, Checkley, Staffordshire. It was installed in 1907 and presented by William and Jane Margaret Vernon on their 50th ...
The Palace Picture House, Tunstall
The art deco Palace Picture House (or Palace CInema) was on The Boulevard opposite the Memorial Gardens. Opened in 1909 on what was then known as Station Road, the Palace Picture House was the first purpose ...
The Post Office, Hilderstone. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the village Post Office, Hilderstone, Staffordshire.
The rear of houses on Picton Street, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the corner of Botteslow Street and Commercial Road in Hanley. Commercial Road runs across the bottom of the photograph and becomes Nelson Road. Picton Street was one of ...
The Sentinel offices, Trinity Street, Hanley
These offices on the corner of Foundry Street and Trinity Street were occupied from 1874. At that time, the newspaper was expanding producing daily and weekly Sentinels, with three editions of the daily ...
The Square, Caverswall
A view of the Square, caverswall. A photograph taken by William Blake of Longton.
The Traveller's Rest, Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
The Traveller's Rest public house on Ashbourne Road, Cheadle. The long low building behind the pub was a rope walk.
The Viaduct, Monsal Dale. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a steam train crossing the Monsal Dale Viaduct, Nr. Bakewell, Derbyshire.
The viaduct, spanning the River Wye, was built in the 1860s and carried passengers on the Midland Railway ...
The Views, Penkhull
The Views is an early 19th century house in extensive grounds, just to the south of Penkhull New Road close to Penkhull Green. A grade II listed building, it was the birthplace of Oliver (later Sir) ...
The Villas from Hunter's Way, Penkhull
The rear of one of the houses in The Villas development seen from Hunter's Way. This is number 12, "Rosemount", one of the largest houses in the development, built on the higher ground with a view over ...
The Villas from Hunter's Way, Penkhull.
A close up view of the rear of one of the houses, Number 12 "Rosemount", on the edge of The Villas development in Stoke. The photograph was taken from Hunter's Way, looking over the fence towards Boothen. ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Boothen and beyond from Hunter's Way, Penkhull
The camera is looking northeast over the houses in the Villas development from the higher ground on Hunter's Way. Faintly in the centre are the four floodlight pylons of the old Stoke City Victoria ground. ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent
Number 16, The Villas, also known as "Whitmore", was a "first class house" (see below). The house has been extended and subsequently divided into flats.
The Stokeville Building Society was formed in ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent
Numbers 23 and 24 The Villas, despite their size, are two "third class" houses (see below). Number 24 is adjacent to London Road and was used as a Doctor’s surgery. The house has been modified and extended ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent
Numbers 6 and 6a, The Villas were originally a single 'third class house' (see below) which has been subsequently divided into two dwellings. A 2-storeyed stucco building, Italianate in style, with a ...