The Mount, Penkhull
This photograph shows the west front and main entrance to The Mount, a mansion built by Josiah Spode II. The house was built on the site of an old farmhouse between Penkhull and Hartshill around 1803-04 ...
The Mount, Penkhull
This is the original west facing front of the Mount, built by Josiah Spode II, around 1803. The rectangular stone and brick building had the semi-circular entrance way, with a sky light in the dome above. ...
The North Door, St. Peter's, Caverswall. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior with a view of the North Door at St. Peter's Church, Caverswall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The North Stafford Hotel, Stoke-on-Trent
The main entrance to North Stafford Hotel in Winton Square, from Station Road. The building dates from 1863 but is Elizabethan and Jacobean in style. It was built as an integral part of Stoke Station ...
The old blast engine house in Ravensdale, Tunstall
The ruins are the engine house and chimney of a iron works blast engine. The photograph was taken near Copp Lane alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal looking south east towards Burslem. The tower of ...
The Organ, Checkley Church. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior with a view of the organ at St. Mary & All Saints Church, Church Lane, Checkley, Staffordshire. It was installed in 1907 and presented by William and Jane Margaret Vernon on their 50th ...
The Organ, St. Mary's Church, Trentham. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior with a view of the organ at St. Mary's Church, Trentham, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Post Office, Hilderstone. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the village Post Office, Hilderstone, Staffordshire.
The Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.
A view of Longton taken from St. James' Church, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The postcard is dated 1875 but Blake was not born until the mid 1870s. It is more likely that ...
The Queens, 268 Waterloo Road, Burslem
The Queens public house was constructed between 1832 and 1878. At the time of this photograph, it was described as having a front central double door with stone step and gothic arched light, a stone architrave ...
The Real Devil in Stoke On Trent
Industrial landscape taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photography and Design by William Blake.
This design, with its damning caption, is one of many that appear to confirm that Blake ...
The Rectory, Draycott-in-the-Moors
The Rectory, Draycott-in-the-Moors. This Grade II listed building was built in the 18th century and has early and late 19th century alterations.
Photograph by William Blake of Longton.
The site of Ashworth's and Clementson's potteries, Hanley
The tall chimney on the left belonged to George Ashworth's Broad Street Works. On the right are the remains of a chimney belonging to Clementson's flint mill. The bottle ovens in between are part of ...
The South Chapel. Swynnerton Church. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior with a view of the South Chapel. Taken at St. Mary's Church, Swynnerton, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The South Transept, Croxden Abbey. Photographed by William Blake.
The ruins of the south transept at Croxden Abbey, Nr. Alton, Staffordshire.
The South Transept, Croxden Abbey. Photographed by William Blake.
The south transept ruins at Croxden Abbey, Nr. Alton, Staffordshire.
The South Transept, Croxden. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the south transept ruins at Croxden Abbey, Nr. Alton, Staffordshire.
The Square, Caverswall
A view of the Square, caverswall. A photograph taken by William Blake of Longton.