Oxford Ragwort or Senecio squalidus
Oxford Ragwort is an annual, which was introduced to Oxford in 1794. It has since spread to many industrial areas.
Flowering between April and December, it can grow to a height of 30cm.
This example ...
Panorama from Bedford Street, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from just north of the flight of locks at Bedford Street in Shelton. The camera is looking northwards along the Caldon Canal with the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery on ...
Park Farm, Fenton Park
Park Farm in the Fenton Park area seen from then north west. the photographer, Bert Bentley, thought the building in the centre might originally have been an old colliery or tramway engine winding house. ...
Park Farm, Fenton Park
Park Farm in the Fenton Park area is marked on the 1898 Ordnance Survey Map as an "engine house". The old chain tramway connecting Victoria and Fenton Park Collieries with Victoria Square in Fenton ran ...
Park Hall and Weston Coyney from Sutherland Road, Longton
An elevated view over Adderley Floral China and the Rosina China Works on Sutherland Road. The photograph was probably taken from the Bluebell Pottery on Barker Street, on the higher ground to the south ...
Parkhall Colliery and tip from Park Hall Hills
Looking towards Longton from Parkhall Hills. The middle of the photograph is dominated by the spoil tips of Parkhall Colliery, closed nearly four years before the picture was taken. Park Hall Road, connecting ...
Passenger train passing Rudyard Lake
A Fowler 4P steam locomotive passes Rudyard Lake with a three-coach passenger service from Macclesfield in 1953.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Peacock, Trentham Gardens. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Trentham Gardens, near Stoke-on-Trent. The view includes a peacock and a water fountain.
The estate was home and pleasure gardens to the Dukes of Sutherland from the seventeenth to the early ...
Penkhull Farm, Penkhull
The duck pond and outbuildings of Penkhull Farm. According to Bert Bentley (the photographer), the horse was "Faithful Mick", one of the last remaining working farm horses. Although much patched up, most ...
Penkhull Farm, Penkhull
Penkhull Farm is just to the south of Garden Street in Penkhull. Dating from the early 1700s it covered nearly 70 acres to the south west of Penkhull. The photograph shows the farm and stockyard. The ...
Peverill Castle and Rocky Landscape. Photographed by William Blake.
Stereoscope slide with a rocky landscape and view of Peverill Castle at Castleton, Derbyshire.
Pool at Stanley. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This view includes a couple, pool and house.
Pool House Farm, Bucknall
The farm house dates from the 18th Century. Water, electricity and a telephone were first connected in 1956. Behind the farm, alongside sawmills, was Bucknall Station
Alongside, out of shot, was a ...
Post Lane Road, Endon
Looking north along Post Lane from the end of Stanley Bank. Beyond the trees on the left is the Endon Cricket Club ground. The building work on the right is for the electricity substation. The cottages ...
Post Office & Schools, Ipstones. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Ipstones, Nr. Leek, Staffordshire.
The scene includes the village post office and school.
Potteries Loop Line, Cobridge
The view north from the Sneyd Street bridge over the Potteries Loop Line. Leek New Road bridge is the centre, with the advertising hoardings along to the left. On the right hand edge is the Progress Foundry ...
Primrose Hill Farm, Hanford
The photograph shows the west side of cottages on Primrose Hill Farm in Hanford. Although the farm has disappeared, much of the open land and fields around Primrose Hill remain.
Primrose Hill Farm, Hanford
The farmhouse stood on Primrose Hill in Hanford. The farmhouse and buildings have been demolished.