South Shore Baths, Blackpool. Circa 1920
This is a postcard of South Shore open air swimming baths in Blackpool. The image was taken between 1920 and 1930. Many people in the Potteries spent their holidays in Blackpool and Rhyl, often visiting ...
Stoke on Trent Nursing Headquarters, Bucknall
This unprepossessing building was the headquarters of the Stoke on Trent District Nursing and Home Nursing Service. it was at number 2 Marychurch Road in Bucknall. With the creation of the National Health ...
Stoke-on-Trent Mass Radiography Centre, Ashlands, Stoke-on-Trent
Ashlands is the large detached house in the centre of the photograph on Hartshill Road, just before the junction with The Avenue. Off to the left was the Limes Maternity Hospital. Ashlands was the Mass ...
Sutton Dwellings Trust, Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent
The tablet in Greasley Road, Abbey Hulton, commemorating the Sutton Trust. This charitable trust was responsible for building of 403 houses in Abbey Hulton from 1933.
The Sutton Dwellings Trust was ...
Trentham parish workhouse
This plan is of Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board. The workhouses were frequently set up in ...
Trying on clothes, Hem Heath Colliery , Trentham
Life during the miner's strike of 1984 / 1985 was hard for mining families, with striking miners receiving no pay and no state benefits. People donated clothes and food to the strikers and these were ...
Vagrant ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the vagrant ward at Stoke workhouse which was built in 1842. Homeless people wishing to enter the workhouse had to obtain a ticket from the police station and were then allowed in at six ...
Women's Society, Burslem - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
'On the basis of charitable principles,' 28 Burslem women announce their plan to bring relief to the town's poor.
They include the wife of pottery manufacturer Enoch Wood and local printer J. Tregortha. ...