Longton Park Birthday Card. Photography and Design by William Blake.
Birthday card with flowers and a view of Longton Park, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The park's official name is Queen's Park and it was officially opened on July 25th 1888 by George Granville William ...
Looking north over Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera was looking north up the Fowlea Brook valley, over Westport Lake. The embankment running across the middle of the photograph carried the Tunstall or Pinnox branch railway line, which left the ...
Looking south over Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking south from Chatterley Road over Westport towards Wolstanton. The spire of St Margaret's Church in Wolstanton is to the right with the twin towers of Wolstanton Colliery in the centre. ...
Marsh Thistle or Cirsium palustre
Marsh Thistle is a biennial found in wet places such as marshes, damp hedgerows, woods and grasslands.
Flowering between July and August it can grow to a height of 1.5m
This example was found growing ...
Mill Pool, Stanley. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of Mill Pool, Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Mill Pool, Stanley. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Mill Pool, Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Mine and Quarry Workings at Huntley, near Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
Gravel workings at Huntley, near Cheadle.
Mine and Quarry Workings at Huntley, near Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
Gravel workings at Huntley, near Cheadle.
Moddereshall Pool. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Moddershall Pool, Moddershall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Moddershall Pool
Entitled "A Modershall Mirror", this photograph was taken at Wayside Pool, Moddershall, near Stone, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Moddershall Pool. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Moddershall Pool, Moddershall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Musk Thistle or Carduus nutans
Musk Thistle is a common biennial found on limestone. The prickly stems are bare for some distance below the solitary nodding flower-heads.
Flowering between May and August, it can grow to a height ...
Nodding Bur-Marigold or Bidens cernua
Nodding Bur-marigold is an annual found by ponds lakes and canals.
Flowering between July and October, it can grow to a height of 60cm.
This example was found growing at Alton in Staffordshire, ...
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 ...
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.
Pool at Stanley. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This view includes a couple, pool and house.
Primrose or Primula vulgaris
This perennial occurs in damp hedge bottoms and by streams in woods on limestone and clay.
Flowering between March and May, it can grow up to 20cm in length.
This example was found growing at Heathylee ...