Stone Road from the Hanford roundabout, Stoke-on-Trent
A view south along the A34 (Stone Road) from Hanford roundabout. Here, from 1962, the A34 met the M6 link road and later the A500 (Queensway). The River Trent flows just behind the electricity sub station ...
Tamms Pottery, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Tamms Pottery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
It is thought that most of the pottery factory interiors and pottery worker photographs were taken here between 1900-1903. Tamms Pottery was just ...
The Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Looking northwards up The Avenue from its junction with the A34, Newcastle Road. The Avenue joins Newcastle Road to Hartshill Road. The northern part was built by the early 1920s and extended south to ...
The Avenue, Wetley Rocks
A view taken at The Avenue, looking north along Cheadle Road, Wetley Rocks. The avenue of trees no longer exists.
Photographed by William Blake.
The Black Lion, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
The Black mLion Inn stands at the junction of London Road and Newcastle Road (where it becomes Stone Road). On the beam over the window in the left hand gable is the inscription "B Co Ltd" and "AD1899". ...
The Boar, Moddershall. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of The Boar, Moddershall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Broadway Cinema, Meir
A view of the Broadway Cinema on Uttoxeter Road, Meir. Art-deco in style, the cinema opened in 1936. It could seat over 1000 filmgoers and was on the Broadway Roundabout on Sandon Road. The site was close ...
The Chatterley Whitfield mineral line bridge in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north along Chell Heath Road towards Oxford Road in Fegg Hayes. The bridge is carrying the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (off to the right) into Tunstall and ...
The Crescent, Wolstanton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at The Crescent, Wolstanton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Grange, Burslem
The camera is looking south towards Shelton iron and steel works and the headgear of Wolstanton Colliery. The photograph was taken from the bridge near the northern end of the Grange mineral railway line.
The ...
The main railway line near Harecastle
Looking north along the track of the old LMS line as it passes through Chatterley, taken from the Ravensdale Lane road bridge. The higher ground of Harecastle is straight ahead. This photograph was taken ...
The Potteries Loop Line between Hanley and Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking west from the Josiah Wedgwood Street railway bridge along the Loop Line between Hanley and Etruria. This section of the Loop Line was opened in the early 1860s. The road ...
The route of the Deep Pit mineral railway, Cobridge
The photograph shows the line of the mineral railway through Cobridge just after it had crossed Waterloo Road. It ran between rows of houses. Those on the left faced onto Portland Street and on the right ...
The southern entrances to Harecastle Canal Tunnels, Tunstall
The Trent & Mersey Canal passes through the higher ground between Tunstall and Kidsgrove using the Harecastle Tunnel. The photograph shows the two tunnels bored to take the canal. On then left is the ...
The Traveller's Rest, Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
The Traveller's Rest public house on Ashbourne Road, Cheadle. The long low building behind the pub was a rope walk.
The western end of Werrington Road, Bucknall
looking along Werrington Road from close, to the junction with Bucknall Road. Ruxley Road, as was, is the road off to the right, but it changes in road layout means it no longer joins Werrington Road. ...
Trent & Mersey Canal dock, Sideway, Stoke-on-Trent
A view of the Stafford Coal & Iron Company dock on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Sideway. Some of the colliery winding gear is in the background and the main railway line runs from left to right across ...
Trentham Station
This was the view from Trentham Station, looking north towards Stoke, taken from under the bridge that carried Trentham Road over the railway line. The Trentham Park branch (to Trentham Gardens) went ...