The Roaches. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Roaches, Nr. Leek, Staffordshire.
This area is now part of the Peak District National Park.
The Source of the Trent, Biddulph Moor. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Biddulph Moor, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, showing the source of the River Trent.
The South Transept, Croxden. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the south transept ruins at Croxden Abbey, Nr. Alton, Staffordshire.
The Viaduct, Monsal Dale. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a steam train crossing the Monsal Dale Viaduct, Nr. Bakewell, Derbyshire.
The viaduct, spanning the River Wye, was built in the 1860s and carried passengers on the Midland Railway ...
The view from Lower House Farm, Stanley
Lower House Farm is one of the oldest houses in Stanley, dating from around 1700, but built on the site of a medieval manor house. This is the view north east towards the Moorlands and Peak District. ...
The view from near Mill Hill in Little Chell Lane, Little Chell
The camera is looking northwards from near the top of Little Chell Lane. In the foreground is Blessed William Southerne Roman Catholic Secondary School, opened in 1957. This became St Margaret Ward ...
The view from Primrose Hill, Hanford
The view north east towards Sideway from Primrose Hill in Hanford as it was in 1964. In the centre of the photograph is Stafford Colliery with its waste tip, once part of the Stafford Coal & Iron Company. ...
The view from Summerbank, Tunstall
Looking west from the Summerbank area of Tunstall. The Wedgwood Monument on Bignall Hill stands on the skyline in the centre. Taken from just outside Summerbank Primary School, the ground falls away into ...
The view north from Greenhill Farm, Fenton
The camera is looking north eastwards from the site of Greenhill Farm in the Fenton Park area. The foreground was the site of the Castle Colliery. In the middle distance are the buildings of Northwood ...
The view north from Vicarage Road in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north from the end of Vicarage Road, at the entrance to Hartshill Park and Nature Reserve. The houses in Basford are in the distance, in the foreground is the Diamond Clay Works. ...
The view over Stoke-on-Trent from Bath Street
The camera is looking eastwards over Stoke from the corner of Boon Avenue and Bath Street. Bath Street leads down to the old Stoke Library building on London Road. In the distance is the spoil tip and ...
The view south east from Boon Avenue, Penkhull
Looking southeast wards from the heights of Boon Avenue over Stoke towards the spoil tip of Fenton Collieries with Parkhall ,and possibly, Mossfield in the far distance. On the right hand side are two ...
The view south from Stanley Farm, Stanley
This is a view south from Stanley Village over Stanley Pool towards, on the right, the higher ground of Bagnall. Stanley Pool is a reservoir originally built in 1786, and later expanded, to supply water ...
The view towards Trentham from Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the Trent Vale Brick and Tile Works on Rookery Lane looking southwards towards the higher ground of Trentham Gardens. In the centre foreground is the estate of prefabricated ...
The view west from Edgefield Lane, Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking over "Crosswinds" bungalow south west from the higher ground of Stockton Brook. The chimney in the left centre (now demolished) belonged to Stockton Brook water Pumping Station and the waste tip ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Boothen and beyond from Hunter's Way, Penkhull
The camera is looking northeast over the houses in the Villas development from the higher ground on Hunter's Way. Faintly in the centre are the four floodlight pylons of the old Stoke City Victoria ground. ...
The Weir, Danebridge
Landscape with a view of a weir on the River Dane at Danebridge.
Photograph: William Blake of Longton.
The Woods, Biddulph. Photographed by William Blake.
Woodland scene taken at Biddulph, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.