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.
Level crossing on Scotia Road, Tunstall
The photograph was taken from close to the corner of King William Street and Scotia Road, looking southwards. In the centre are the level crossing gates allowing the Chatterley Whitfield mineral railway ...
Level crossing on the Birches Head Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Level Crossing and crossing house at Birches Head Road on the Biddulph Vlalley/Stoke to Leek branch line. The camera is looking south. Birches Head road was known as Horse Lane until the 1920s. The Caldon ...
Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire.
Lift bridge on Caldon Canal near Long Butts Farm, Stoke-on-Trent
The lift bridge (bridge number 23) on the Caldon Canal close to Long Butts Farm on Ball Lane, Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent. Sometimes called a drawbridge, this lift bridge is hand operated using a windlass ...
Lift bridge over the Caldon Canal at Heakley Green, Norton Green
The Norton Green lift bridge (bridge No 21) carries the path leading to Cockshead Cottages over the Caldon Canal west of Baddeley Green. Just beyond the bridge was the start of the arm of the canal that ...
Liverpool Road and The Denbigh Castle, Stoke-on-Trent
A view south along Liverpool Road, Stoke from its junction with Shelton Old Road. Shelton Old Road is on the right, with the learner driver in the Standard 8 car entering Liverpool Road. In between the ...
Locomotive, possibly at Meir
A 2-4-0 engine with a train of second and third class carriages on the Stoke to Derby line, possibly at Meir station around 1900.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway....
Lodge Road, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Lodge Road is just east of Hilton Road and connects Newcastle Lane with Ashlands Road. This is the view looking north west just before the junction with Oliver Road, off to the left. Just visible between ...
Logging
Logging in progress on a damp day in the 1950s.
The scene looks like Rudyard in Staffordshire, with the reservoir barely visible through the trees.
Compare the workers' hand saws, flat caps and ...
London Road, Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking south west along London Road from the Regent Street area. To the left is Coronation Gardens, occupying the old bed of the Stoke to Newcastle Canal.
London Road, Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent
A view south west along London Road towards Oakhill from near All Saints Road. The West End public house later became a community centre. Off to the left are Coronation Gardens, occupying the old bed ...
Longport Station, Stoke-on-Trent
Longport Station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1848 but was named Burslem station. It became Longport in 1873 when Burslem station on the Loop Line opened. This is the view north from ...
Longton Hall Lane, Longton
A pit mound can be seen on the right.
Longton Park Boat House, Rear View. Photographed by William Blake.
Rear view of Longton Park boat house. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The park's official name is Queen's Park and it was officially opened on July 25th 1888 by George Granville William ...