Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
This plan shows the front of Stoke-on-Trent railway station.The outer face of the railway station has remained virtually unchanged since it was built but the interior underwent some major modifications ...
Stone Road (A34) north of Hanford roundabout, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking south along the A34 (Stone Road) just before the old Hanford roundabout. The large building on the right just beyond the two bungalows is the White House (later repainted). On the ...
Stone Road from the Hanford roundabout, Stoke-on-Trent
A view south along the A34 (Stone Road) from Hanford roundabout. Here, from 1962, the A34 met the M6 link road and later the A500 (Queensway). The River Trent flows just behind the electricity sub station ...
Stone Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Stone Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. It is now called Lightwood Road.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the ...
Tamms Pottery, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Tamms Pottery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
It is thought that most of the pottery factory interiors and pottery worker photographs were taken here between 1900-1903. Tamms Pottery was just ...
The Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Looking northwards up The Avenue from its junction with the A34, Newcastle Road. The Avenue joins Newcastle Road to Hartshill Road. The northern part was built by the early 1920s and extended south to ...
The Avenue, Wetley Rocks
A view taken at The Avenue, looking north along Cheadle Road, Wetley Rocks. The avenue of trees no longer exists.
Photographed by William Blake.
The Black Lion, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The Black mLion Inn stands at the junction of London Road and Newcastle Road (where it becomes Stone Road). On the beam over the window in the left hand gable is the inscription "B Co Ltd" and "AD1899". ...
The Boar, Moddershall. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of The Boar, Moddershall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Bradwell Oak Inn, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The Bradwell Oak public house was at the eastern end of Peel Street next to the railway line. In the left hand corner of the photograph is the Longport Junction signal box which controlled access to the ...
The Broadway Cinema, Meir
A view of the Broadway Cinema on Uttoxeter Road, Meir. Art-deco in style, the cinema opened in 1936. It could seat over 1000 filmgoers and was on the Broadway Roundabout on Sandon Road. The site was close ...
The Caldon Canal at Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north along the Caldon Canal from the Leek Road (A53) bridge. Buller's factory is on the left beyond the railway bridge (Biddulph Valley/Stoke to Leek branch). The factory was opened in 1920 and ...
The Canal, Stoke-on-Trent. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of Stoke Clay Wharf.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing ...
The Chatterley Whitfield mineral line bridge in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north along Chell Heath Road towards Oxford Road in Fegg Hayes. The bridge is carrying the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (off to the right) into Tunstall and ...
The Crescent, Wolstanton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at The Crescent, Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
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 ...
The main railway line near Harecastle
Looking north along the track of the old LMS line as it passes through Chatterley, taken from the Ravensdale Lane road bridge. The higher ground of Harecastle is straight ahead. This photograph was taken ...
The Potteries Loop Line between Hanley and Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking west from the Josiah Wedgwood Street railway bridge along the Loop Line between Hanley and Etruria. This section of the Loop Line was opened in the early 1860s. The road ...