Knotty Rail Motor
Early attempts at motorising the railways met with varying degrees of success.
Built by Beyer & Peacock, the Knotty Rail Motor combined a locomotive and carriage in one unit.
The North Staffordshire ...
Landscape. Unknown Location. Photographed by William Blake c. 1900-1940
Landscape including a track, horse and cart and river. Unknown location.
Landscape. Unknown Location. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape.
Unknown Location.
Leek goods yard
A dirty Standard Class 4 locomotive numbered 75030 pulls away from Leek yard in Staffordshire with an empty load of wagons.
This picture was taken in 1966 when steam was becoming a rarer sight on Britain's ...
Leek New Road at Daisy Bank Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking south west from close to the Daisy Bank Bridge along the A53 (Leek New Road) with Sneyd Green to the left and Holden Bridge in the centre distance. The photograph was taken from near Bellerton ...
Leek New Road at Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north east along Leek New Road (A53) at the outskirts of Stockton Brook. The place name sign on the right hand side of the road is for Baddeley Green and the photograph was taken just beyond the ...
Leek New Road, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north east towards Baddeley Green from the Leek New Road (A53) bridge over the Caldon Canal near Milton. The area to the immediate left of the road is the old shraff (waste) tip belonging to Buller's ...
Leek railway station
A passenger service leaves Leek station on a wet day in 1960.
Leek, in Staffordshire, was a mill town, hence one of the tall factory chimmneys still standing.
The station is now the site of Morrisons ...
Leek railway station under demolition
Leek railway station was demolished in 1973 after passenger services were withdrawn. As with many former Knotty railway station sites this one was bought by the supermarket chain Safeway (now Morrisons). ...
Leek Road, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Heath House Lane bridge over the Stoke to Leek and Biddulph branch line. The camera is looking south in what Bert Bentley described as "putrid light". On the left is ...
Leek Road, Hanley
This was the view along Leek Road towards the Joiner's Square roundabout. Palmerston Street is going off to the right. The next road down is Westmill Street.
The chimneys in the centre belonged to ...
Leek station
A British Railways Ivatt Class 2, number 46430, pictured at Leek station, Staffordshire in June 1957.
Leek station had a goods yard, and all manner of goods passed through, from coal mined in the Potteries ...
Leek Tunnel
This picture shows a view looking north towards the tunnel at Leek. Taken from the water tower at the north end of the up platform, you can clearly see the gas holder that served the town with gas. The ...
Leekbrook asylum line
The Leekbrook asylum line. Passengers, nurses and inmates switched from mainline trains to the asylum's own electric railway here for the short one mile ride to the hospital.
This image is taken from ...
Leekbrook Junction
Leekbrook Junction acted as a station for the local asylum. This line was never electrified, but the asylum train was electric. Patients had to alight the steam train and get onto the asylum train waiting ...
Leekbrook Tunnel
A Standard Class 2 locomotive, number 75035, emerges from Leekbrook tunnel in Staffordshire during the 1960s.
Despite closure to goods traffic in 1988, this stretch of line through the Churnet Valley ...
Leigh Post Office. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Leigh, Staffordshire.
The photograph includes the village Post Office and a group of women, one using a cast iron water pump.
Leigh. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Lower Leigh, Staffordshire.
The scene includes a public house called the Railway Inn, a motor car, a workshop and worker.