North Side, Stannier's Garden Allotments. Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the north side of Stannier's Garden Allotments, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
North Staffs. Field, Flower Iris. Photographed by William Blake.
Botanical study of an Iris.
Blake was member of the North Staffs Field Club. It is possible, judging by the title of the photograph, that this image was to be used by the club.
Norton Colliery from Harrison Road, Norton-in-the-Moors
Norton Colliery is in the centre foreground just beyond the houses. The spoil tip on the horizon belongs to Sneyd Colliery and the flatter, lower ground in between is the valley of the Bank Haye Brook. ...
Norton Colliery spoil tip from Burslem Golf Course
The view south east from Burslem Golf Course over the Ford Green Valley towards Norton Colliery spoil tip. Running through the middle of the photograph is the embankment of the Biddulph Vally branch line, ...
Norton cricket ground and Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking north east from bottom of Harold Street, Smallthorne before the housing estates were developed. They now occupy the open space in the foreground.
The spoil tip belonged ...
Norton Green New Hall
Norton Green New Hall stands on Endon Road in Norton Green. Immediately behind is the original Norton Green Hall, a Grade II listed building. The old hall is a late 17th century brick farmhouse which ...
Norton in the Moors from Chell Heath Road
The photograph is looking east from Chell Heath Road across the Bank Haye Brook valley towards Norton in the Moors. Towards the right edge of the photograph is the tower of Norton Church (St Bartholomew's). ...
Nottingham Catchfly, or Silene nutans
You will find this perennial growing on Staffordshire's Carboniferous Limestone.
Flowering between May and July, it can reach a height of 50cm.
This example was found growing at Beresford Dale near ...
Nursery Lane, Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north west along Nursery Lane from close to the Cocks Lane corner. Beyond is Norton Green and the waste tip in the distance belonged to Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (over 2 miles away).
Oakamoor from Star Bank. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Oakamoor, Staffordshire, taken from Star Bank.
Oakhill and the Michelin Tyre Company factory, from Penkhull
This was the view eastwards over the Michelin Tyre factory from the higher ground along Hunter's Way in Penkhull. The Michelin factory dominates the middle of the photograph. On the left of the site is ...
Old Burslem to 1760
Map of Burslem commissioned by Enoch Wood in 1816.
The map is partially based on the recollections of John Lovat, John Fletcher and a number of others who were upwards of 80 years old.
It shows ...
Old Cottages, Ipstones. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Ipstones, Nr. Leek, Staffordshire.
Old Mill, Cinderhill, Longton
Flint Mill near Cinderhill Hall, Anchor Brook, Longton. The mill was demolished about 1910.
Old Mill, Cinderhill, Longton
Flint Mill near Cinderhill Hall, Anchor Brook, Longton. The mill was demolished about 1910.
Old quarry, Forresters Bank, Baddeley Edge, Stoke-on-Trent
The face of one of the stone quarries on Forrester's Bank. The rock is Chatsworth Grit, one of the varieties of Millstone Grit which are found in North Staffordshire and the Peak District. This rock was ...
Old quarry, Greenway Hall Road, Baddeley Edge, Stoke-on-Trent
Young rock climbers on the east facing outcrop of gritstone at the north end of Greenway Hall Road, close to Stone House, in Baddeley Green. The outcrop is of Chatsworth Grit, a variety of Millstone Grit, ...
Oldfield's Brick Works, Fenton
The photograph shows the fireclay marl pit at Oldfield's brick works, east of Duke Street in the Lane Delph area of Fenton. At the time of the photograph, the pit was being filled in.
There was a ...