Narrow Boats outside Winkle and Wood Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent
Canals are now mostly used for recreation with many people owning or hiring narrow boats for touring holidays. Some people live in canal narrow boats and have permanent moorings at the canal side or in ...
Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey - Handbill from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
The Trent and Mersey Canal, begun in 1766, had become big business by the end of the 18th century.
Its owners were concerned about ensuring an adequate supply of water to the canal, and had applied ...
Nelson Pottery and the Caldon Canal, Hanley
This is a photograph of Elijah Cotton's Nelson Pottery taken from the Caldon Canal which ran alongside the southern side of the factory. The bridge carrying Botteslow Street over the canal is in the middle ...
Newcastle Lane, Penkhull
The camera is looking west along Newcastle Lane down towards the A34.The photograph was taken from the roundabout at the junction of Hilton road and Harpfield Road. Behind the camera, Newcastle Lane continues ...
Newcastle under Lyme Canal at Copeland Street, Stoke-upon-Trent
A view along the Newcastle under Lyme Canal where it leaves the Trent & Mersey Canal in Stoke on Trent. The photograph is taken from the bridge at the junction with the Trent & Mersey: the bridge in the ...
Newchapel & Goldenhill Station, Stoke-on-Trent
Newchapel & Goldenhill station was on the Potteries Loop Line between the two settlements of Newchapel (to the north)and Goldenhill (to the south). The station was opened in 1874 and originally known ...
Newfield branch line in Tunstall
Looking north along the Newfield mineral line branch from the bridge over Furlong Road and the line curves away to the right to end at Newfield Wharf. The houses on the right are on Greenfield Road. Clanway ...
Newfield Wharf, Tunstall
Newfield Wharf was at the end of the Newfield mineral ranch off the Potteries Loop Line. The line ended just north of Adams Avenue and stopped short of High Street. Originally built to carry raw materials ...
Newfields Junction on the Potteries Loop Line, Tunstall
The photograph was taken from the bottom of Machin Street in Tunstall, looking north along the Potteries Loop Line. The single track Newfield mineral branch goes off to the left to Newfield Wharf. The ...
Newfields Wharf, Tunstall
Newfields Wharf was at the end of the short Newfields branch off the Potteries Loop Line. In the background are buildings on High Street, Sandyford. The photograph was taken from the railway bridge in ...
Normacot Infants' School, Meir Road
The school opened in 1853, with new buildings in 1876, and a new infants' school in 1895. All the new buildings were demolished in about 1954.
Normacot Road, Longton
Photograph taken looking to the west. The Wheat Sheaf public house is in the distance on the left.
Normacot Road, Longton
Houses being demolished on Normacot Road. Photograph taken from the end of New Church.
Normacot Road, Longton
Houses in Normacot Road, Longton, being demolished.
Normacot Road, Longton
Photograph taken looking up from Commerce Street. Houses are undergoing demolition on the left.
Normacot Station
Photograph taken from the old railway bridge (now demolished). The station can be seen faintly in the distance. Normacot Station stood on the N.S.R. Uttoxeter branch line and was opened in 1882. It closed ...
Normacot Station
The station house is on the left. Normacot Station stood on the N.S.R. Uttoxeter branch line and was opened in 1882. It closed to goods in October 1961 and to passengers in March 1964, and has since ...
Normacot Station
A commercial postcard showing a North Staffordshire Railway train at Normacot Station, looking towards Derby. Normacot Station stood on the N.S.R. Uttoxeter branch line and was opened in 1882. It closed ...