Fenton Park Road, Fenton
In the background is Park Farm, Park Farm Cottage, and the White House. In the foreground are workshops etc connected to the farm. All of these buildings are substantially intact in 2020.
Fenton Park, Fenton
These cottages at Fenton Park were built to house employees of a nearby colliery. They are still standing and occupied. (2020).
Fir Tree Farm, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent
The farmhouse and outbuildings at Fir Tree Farm just off Whitfield Road in Ball Green. The stone house and cottage in the centre of the photograph date from the early 17th century and are grade II listed ...
Fir Tree Farm, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent
Fir Tree farmhouse is just south of Whitfield Road in Ball Green. The farmhouse and it adjoining cottage date from the early 17th century and are grade II listed buildings. A farm has probably been on ...
Flatts Road, Norton-in-the-Moors
The shop was Knypersley Road stores on the corner of Knypersley Road and The Flatts Road in Norton. It was a tobacconist, sweet shop and grocer with a fine selection of 1960s adverts. The houses and shop ...
Ford Green Farm Cottage, Ford Green Road, Spragg House Lane
This detached three storey farm house is built in red brick and was constructed before 1832. It has a pitched and tiled roof with two raised brick chimney stacks. The single sash windows have plain stone ...
Ford Green Hall, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows the front and east side of Ford Green Hall, a 17th century timber framed farmhouse with a brick wing, now a museum. The house was built in 1624 for the Ford family, local farmers, ...
Ford Green Hall, Stoke-on-Trent
Ford Green Hall dates from the 17th century and was originally a timber framed yeoman farmer's house belonging to the Ford family, who farmed 36 acres. Today the house is a museum and surrounded by period ...
Furnace Farm, Fenton Park, Fenton
Furnace Farm was also known as Bailey's Farm and was on a lane that lead northwards off Fenpark Road. The name comes from nearby old iron furnaces. the two outbuildings on the right are thought to have ...
Furnace Farm, Fenton Park, Fenton
Furnace Farm was also known as Bailey's Farm and was on a lane that lead northwards off Fenpark Road. The name comes from nearby old iron furnaces. the two outbuildings on the right are thought to have ...
Goldenhill Farm, Fenton
Goldenhill Farm was on the west side of Goldenhill Road, sandwiched between Ludbrook Road to the north and The Old Penny public house to the south. The house in the centre of the photograph was originally ...
Great Hartwell Farm, Rough Close
View of a Great Hartwell Farm, a moated farm at Rough Close, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Great Hartwell Farm, Rough Close
View of a moated farm taken, Great Hartwell Farm, Rough Close, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Greenhill Farm, Fenton Park, Fenton
Greenhill Farm was one of many in the Fenton Park area which had links with ironstone mining. Behind the farm buildings are the remains of an ancient ironstone mining hearth. The buildings have been demolished. ...
Greenway Hall and farm buildings, Stoke-on-Trent
A view of the north side of Greenway Hall and its farm buildings. The lane leads to Greenway Hall Road. The buildings have been redeveloped. Some parts of the hall were built using recycled masonry from ...
Gunn Hill & Cloud End from Morridge. Photographed by William Blake.
Print of a landscape with a view of Gun Hill, Staffordshire and Cloud End, Nr. Congleton, Cheshire. The photograph was taken from Morridge Edge, Staffordshire.
Parts of the area in view are within ...
Hay House, Ipstones
A woman posing at the door of Hay House in Ipstones. It is a Grade II listed farmhouse dated 1625 with later additions.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Haywain, Trentham.
A rural scene at Trentham during the summer of 1920. Before the age of the tractor, people and horses were used to tend the land.
Here the grass has been cut, probably by hand, and is loaded in a loose ...