Swan Square, Burslem
Swan Square in Burslem from Market Place. Waterloo Road carries on mistily from Swan Square towards Cobridge and Hanley. Moorland Road is off to the left.
The two large buildings on the left are the ...
St Gregory's Church, Longton.
The demolition of St Gregory's Roman Catholic Church in Longton in 1968. The photograph shows the remains of the large rose window at the west end of the church which stood on Heathcote Road, opposite ...
Bowling Greens, Bucknall Park
Bucknall Park lies between Heath House Lane and the River Trent, just north of Finney Gardens. The park dates back to 1956 when nearly 17 acres of land was laid out with sports facilities, a pavilion ...
Trent Terrace on Leek Road, Bucknall
Looking south along Leek Road from close to the entrance to Heath House Lane, on the left. The row of houses was known as Trent Terrace, the River Trent is just off then photograph to the right. At the ...
The site of the old Victoria Colliery, Bucknall
This photograph was taken from the end of Hyndley close looking east towards Willeton Street and Malthouse Lane. In the foreground are twop rows of back to back council built garages, erected in the 1950s. ...
Palissy Pottery, Longton
Palissy Pottery was on Chancery Lane in Longton, which runs across the middle of the photograph. The large building on the left hand edge is the back of the Empire Theatre which fronted onto Commerce ...
Normacot Road, Longton
In the centre of the photograph are the backs of the works on Bagnall Street, the road going off to the left. On the corner stands the old American Hotel. Off to the left in the foreground is the old ...
Newhouse Road, Bucknall
This is the view northwards along Newhouse Road from close to the junction with Werrington Road. At the top is the junction with Granville Road. All the houses in the photograph were built between 1945 ...
Newhouse Road and Newhouse Court, Bucknall
The view north along Newhouse Road from the corner of Granville Road. On the right, the buildings under construction are now part of Newhouse Court, a local authority sheltered housing scheme. Newhouse ...
Mossfield Colliery, Longton
Mossfield Colliery looking west from Dividy Lane. Sunk in the 1850s, with up to four shafts, the mine closed in 1963. The prominent spoil tip has been profiled and landscaped and forms part of the 1970s ...
Mossfield Colliery, Longton
The surface buildings and spoil tip of Mossfield Colliery near Longton. Dating from the middle of the 19th Century, the colliery produced coal for industry and households until closure in 1963. In 1889 ...
Leek Road, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Heath House Lane bridge over the Stoke to Leek and Biddulph branch line. The camera is looking south in what Bert Bentley described as "putrid light". On the left is ...
James Kent's Old Foley Pottery, King Street, Longton
James Kent's Old Foley Pottery on King Street. Foley is a small district sandwiched between Fenton and Longton and there was a pottery here in the eighteenth century. The works, now demolished, was between ...
Hudson & Middleton's Sutherland China Works, Normacot Road, Longton
The front of the Sutherland China Works of Hudson and Middleton on Normacot Road in Longton. The works are on the south side of the road, opposite St James's Church. Farther down on the left, the building ...
Holdcroft Road, Bucknall
The view north along Holdcroft Road from the corner of Cliveden Road in Bucknall. Welbeck Place goes off to the right. This post war housing development has changed little since the 1960s.
Guy Street, Bucknall
The view from Werrington Road southwards along Guy Street. The houses at the bottom are on Ruxley Road. Until the 1950s, Guy Street was known as New Street. Most of then houses had been built by the ...
Bucknall County Secondary and Infants School
Bucknall Secondary Modern School was on Malthouse Lane. Formed during the reorganisation of city schools after 1932, it included buildings from the old Bucknall County Infants' School. In this photograph, ...
A coal wharf, Bridgwood Street, Longton
This photograph is looking north along Bridgwood Street from close to the Sutherland Road junction. A coal wharf on the right was alongside Bridgwood Street (formerly called Wharf Street). The bridge ...