Avoca Street, Hanley
The camera is looking south east along Avoca Street and into Rawlins Street beyond. This is in the Northwood area of Hanley. Before the renaming of streets in the 1950s, Avoca was Taylor Street and Rawlins ...
The coachyard, sculpture gallery and clocktower, Trentham Hall
The back of the Trentham Hall. The sculpture gallery is on the right with the estate clock tower in the centre. In the foreground is part of the original hall courtyard and riding school. This was the ...
Trentham Gardens
The remains of Trentham Hall beyond the Italianate Gardens. On the right is the sculpture gallery which is part of Charles Barry's 1840s rebuilding of the clock tower, riding school and stableyard complex. ...
Trentham Gardens
Looking north over the Italianate Garden towards the remains of Trentham Hall. To the left is the conservatory and West Court, in the centre, St Mary's and All Saints' Church and partly obscured by trees, ...
Trentham Gardens
The Italian Garden and remains of Trentham Hall in the mid 1960s. In the centre beyond the planting is the triple arched Loggia. A loggia is an open sided extension to a house, similar to a porch, but ...
The Lake, Trentham Gardens
The house and grounds of Trentham Hall were modified by Henry Holland and Capability Brown in the ten years from 1768-1778. Brown dammed the River Trent and extended Trentham Lake to over a mile long ...
St. Mary's and All Saints' Church, Trentham
The photograph shows the south side of St. Mary's and All Saints' church. There has been a religious building (nunnery, Priory and church) on this site since CE 680. By the 1840s the church was dilapidated ...
Mausoleum for the Dukes of Sutherland, Trentham
Trentham Park Mausoleum stands opposite the site of the original main gates to Trentham Park. This is the view from Stone Road (A34). The grade 1 listed building was finished in 1808 and built for George ...
Mausoleum for the Dukes of Sutherland, Trentham
Trentham mausoleum alongside Stone Road (A34) opposite the original main entrance to Trentham Park. Built for the Leveson-Gower family (Marquises of Stafford and later Dukes of Sutherland) in 1807-1808, ...
The coachyard and clock tower, Trentham Hall
Looking east from outside Trentham Church towards the coach yard and estate clock tower. The lawned area in the foreground was part of Charles Barry's terrace. On the right is the end of the sculpture ...
The West Court and Conservatory, Trentham Hall
The building on the left is the conservatory. Originally with Italianate windows, the conservatory was used to cultivate and display exotic plants and ferns. To the right is the West Court, a semi circular ...
Trentham gardens and lake
Looking south from outside the church in Trentham Gardens towards the Terrace and Italian Gardens and lake. The rose or Terrace Garden leads to the Italian Garden by a short flight of stone steps. Called ...
The site of Trentham Park railway station
Trentham Park railway station was at the end on the short (1 1/2 mile) branch line which ran from Trentham Station on the main line. Opened in 1910 the station had regular trains until the 1930s but was ...
The Old Smithy, Park Drive, Trentham.
The Old Smithy on Park drive is a triangular shaped building sandwiched between Park Drive (on the left) and an access road on the right. The entrance is appropriately in the shape of a horseshoe and ...
New Park House, Trentham
The south side of New Park House in Trentham. This was once the home of the Tellwright family, directors of Sneyd Collieries Ltd. in the 1920s. The house stood in farmland (New Park Farm) now developed ...
New Park Farm, Trentham
New Park Farm was sandwiched between the Trent & Mersey Canal to the west and the main railway line to the east. The lane in front of the house leads to the Limekiln Bridge over the canal. The land has ...
Trentham Hotel, Trentham
The Trentham Hotel stands on Longton Road in Hem Heath. Built on the site of the Roebuck Inn in the 1860s, the hotel replaced the Trentham Inn which stood on Whitmore Road. For some time the hotel was ...
Gravel Pit Face. Photographed by William Blake.
Photograph of a gravel pit face, not long worked. A pick axe can be seen bottom right hand corner. Unknown location.