Logging
Logging in progress on a damp day in the 1950s.
The scene looks like Rudyard in Staffordshire, with the reservoir barely visible through the trees.
Compare the workers' hand saws, flat caps and ...
Longport Station, Stoke-on-Trent
Longport Station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1848 but was named Burslem station. It became Longport in 1873 when Burslem station on the Loop Line opened. This is the view north from ...
Longton Railway Bridge
Photograph taken looking from King Street towards Times Square.
Longton Railway Station
Longton railway station looking east towards the iron bridge crossing the north end of Times Square. The station lies on the Crewe to Derby via Stoke line and was opened as part of the North Staffordshire ...
Longton Railway Station
An aerial photograph taken on the 22 September 1961 from the top of Harvey’s chimney shows a steam locomotive leaving Longton Railway Station. Longton Station opened on the Crewe-Derby line of the North ...
Longton Railway Station and Bridge
This photograph was taken from Times Square, looking towards Longton railway Station and the bridge over King Street. The station was built on an embankment with a cantilever bridge carrying the line ...
Longton Station
The Phoenix Pottery Works seen from the platform of Longton Station, looking west towards Fenton. Phoenix Pottery was operated by Thomas Forester, specialising in majolica, from the 1880s.
The chimney ...
Longton Station and the Phoenix Works, Longton
Longton Station in the foreground with the old Phoenix Pottery building behind and the tower of St John The Baptist Church (demolished in 1979) beyond that.
The station, opened in 1848, is on an embankment. ...
Longton Station, Baths Road, Longton
Longton Station was opened in August 1848 and stood on the Crewe-Derby line of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Looking over the Potteries from Hartshill Bank
This was the view north east from the top of Hartshill Bank (at the bottom of Vicarage Road). The lower land in the foreground is the Fowlea Brook valley with the main railway line running across. Immediately ...
Looking towards Longton from Cinderhill Lane
Photograph taken near Millfield Road, looking along the railway line.
Looking west from Hollywall Lane, Goldenhill
The view west from Hollywall Lane over the entrance to the old Harecastle railway tunnel. The houses in the foreground are on Boathorse Road (or Lane) and beyond the house and barns of Yeld Hill Farm. ...
Lower Lady Meadow
The 'great white winter' of 1962-3 was the coldest since 1740. Temperatures as low as -22°C were recorded.
Heavy snow caused inevitable problems for British Railways, with snowdrifts of up to five ...
Millfield Junction, Longton
A view of Millfield railway junction. The Adderley Green & Bucknall branch left the main Stoke-Uttoxeter line at this point.
Millfield Junction, Longton
A view of Millfield railway junction, looking west. The Adderley Green & Bucknall branch left the main Stoke-Uttoxeter line at this point.
Millfield Junction, Longton
A view of Millfield railway junction, looking south-west. The Adderley Green & Bucknall branch left the main Stoke-Uttoxeter line at this point.
Milton Station, Stoke-on-Trent
The view north long the railway from the single platform of Milton Station towards the bridge carrying Leek New Road (A53) over the line. This is the old North Staffordshire Railway branch line from Stoke ...
Mixed goods passing Norton Bridge
This photograph shows a LNWR 4-6-0 engine hauling a rake of mixed goods in the vicinity of Norton Bridge on the "down" Stafford to Crewe line.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet ...