Granville Hotel, Sampson Street, Hanley
The Granville Hotel stood in Sampson Street (known as Clarence Street until renamed in the 1950s), just a little way off York Street (A5006). In later years it was a night shelter for the homeless. The ...
Granville Street, Mount Pleasant, Fenton
The camera is looking east along Clarendon Street from near the corner with Sutherland Road. Clarendon Street was known as Granville Street until the 1950s. At the top is the signal box on the Stoke to ...
Gravelly Bank, Lightwood. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Gravelly Bank, Lightwood, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden areas near ...
Great Beauty and Great Riches - A pamphlet concerning the proposed Grand Commercial Canal, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
A frustrating meeting has taken place at the Star and White Hart Inn, Uttoxeter.
Supporters of a scheme to build a new canal in Staffordshire have grown weary of attempts to discredit their project ...
Greetings Card. Longton Park. Photography and Design by William Blake.
Christmas Greetings Card with mistletoe and a view of Longton Park, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The park's official name is Queen's Park and it was officially opened on July 25th 1888 by George ...
Grimwades' Pottery, Liverpool Road, Stoke-on-Trent
In the centre of the photograph is Grimwade's Stoke Pottery with its chimneys and kilns. The white, two storey building to the right of the pottery is on the bank of the Trent & Mersey Canal at Shelton ...
Grimwade's Winton Pottery, Stoke Road, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north along Stoke Road from the junction with Station Road. The tall building in the centre is Grimwade's Winton Pottery. The property is in different usage today, but still called Winton House. ...
Handshake at Rushton station
On a wet day at Rushton, station staff and footplate crew exchange a friendly handshake.
This could have been a retirement handshake, or a goodbye handshake due to closure of the station. Who knows?
A ...
Hanley Deep Pit Colliery
The winding gear of No.1 shaft of Deep Pit Colliery in Hanley. This photograph was taken from Town Road with one of the conical spoil tips just visible behind the winding gear.
Hanley Deep pit was ...
Hanley Station
The main entrance and booking hall of Hanley Station on the Potteries Loop Line. This photograph was taken from just outside the Grand Hotel in Trinity Street. The line is in a deep cutting below the ...
Hanley Station
The booking and parcels office of Hanley railway station stood on what became the car park of the Grand Hotel on Trinity Street. The platforms were in a deep, sharply curved cutting below Trinity Street, ...
Hanley Station
Hanley Station was just north of Trinity Street, alongside the old Grand Hotel. This the second Hanley Station, built when the loop line was extended to Burslem in 1873. The first was just south of Trinity ...
Hanley Station
Hanley station was on a sharp curve in a deep cutting just below Trinity Street, opposite the Grand Hotel. This is the view looking westwards along the line to Etruria.
This was the second station ...
Harecastle railway tunnel from Hollywall Lane, Tunstall
Looking westwards from Hollywall Lane towards the southern entrance of the Harecastle railway tunnels (immediately behind the first pylon). On the skyline to the right is the pillar of the Wedgwood Monument ...
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 ...
Hartshill railway station, Stoke-on-Trent
A photograph taken from a wagon in the siding at Hartshill and Basford Halt. The camera is looking west towards the mouth of the tunnel taking the line to Newcastle. The station, opened in 1905, was on ...
Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent
A Ford Escort and a Potteries Motor Traction bus bound for Silverdale is bought to a halt by a police constable in Hartshill. This photograph was taken close to the junction with Queens Road, looking ...