Trentham Hotel and Roebuck Statue. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Trentham Hotel and Roebuck statue at Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The statue was given by the second Duke of Sutherland in 1865.
Trentham Station
The up side of Trentham Station and the entrance from Hem Heath Colliery. On this side is just a small waiting room ( the single storey building on the left), on the down side are the main station offices, ...
Trentham Station
This was the view from Trentham Station, looking north towards Stoke, taken from under the bridge that carried Trentham Road over the railway line. The Trentham Park branch (to Trentham Gardens) went ...
Tunnel beneath High Lane and the Chatterley Whitfield mineral railway, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east along the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield toward the entrance of the tunnel under High Lane. The photograph was taken just south of Johnson Place. The tunnel ran under what is now ...
Tunstall Station
Tunstall Station pictured just after closure in 1964. Tunstall was a station on the Potteries Loop Line. Opened in December 1873, it was closed when the loop line closed in March 1964. The camera was ...
Tunstall Station and goods yard
This is a view from the Boulevard near bridge over the Loop Line at Tunstall Station just before the station and line were closed. The camera is looking south towards Burslem, the next station on the ...
Up platform, Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
The view from the south end of the up (southbound) platform of Stoke Station. The photograph was taken before electrification in 1967, and before the four tracks were reduced to two. On the right of the ...
Uttoxeter Station
A local train pulls into Uttoxeter station on a bright spring day in 1915.
This train, pulled by a small tank engine, could be terminating here, or it could be travelling on to Ashbourne and Buxton. ...
Uttoxeter station
Pictured here in around 1960, Uttoxeter remained an important junction on the route of the old North Staffordshire Railway.
To the south - behind the camera - the line still runs around the edge of ...
Uttoxeter station
Two North Staffordshire Railway staff pose for a photograph at Uttoxeter station in around 1900.
This station was an important junction for trains to Stoke, Derby, Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Ashbourne, ...
Uttoxeter station football team
Twelve members of the Uttoxeter station football team pose for a photograph during the 1960s.
This image is included by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Victoria Street, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking north along Victoria Street from the Shelton New Road junction. The terrace of houses on the left date from the last decade of the 19th century, those further down and ...
Warner Street, Hanley
The view along Warner Street from near the Broad Street corner. The building under construction on the left is Hanley Police Station. Off the left edge is the City Museum and Art Gallery. Hanley Central ...
Waterloo Road Station, Cobridge
The entrance to Waterloo Road Station on the Potteries Loop Line. The station entrance and booking office were built along Waterloo Road above the track which was in a deep cutting below. This cutting ...
Wetton Bridge. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of Wetton Bridge, Manifold valley, Staffordshire.
This area is now part of the Peak District National Park.
Wharf Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Wharf Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is possibly the best known image from the collection. Blake, in a library entry for the North Staffs Field Club, describes ...
Wild Strawberry, or Fragaria vesca
This perennial spreads across hedgebanks, railway embankments and clearings by spreading its runners.
Flowering between April and July, it can grow to a height of 15cm and produces fruit until October.
This ...
Williamson Street, Tunstall
Looking east from Gibson Street towards Scotia Road. Right at the bottom, the bridge carrying the Potteries Loop Line is just visible. The ovens and building on the left belong to Henry Richard's Tiles ...