Checkley. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Checkley, Staffordshire. St. Mary & All Saints Church lies on the horizon. To the left is Manor Farm.
Cheddleton, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Village view taken at Cheddleton, Staffordshire.
Including the Leek Road bridge and Caldon Canal.
Chell from Fir Tree Farm, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view east from Fir Tree Farm over the Ford Green Brook valley towards Chell Heath. Fir Tree Farm is just off Whitfield Road in Ball Green. Running towards the top of the photograph is Cornhill ...
Chell Heath from Burslem Golf Course
Looking north from Burslem Golf Course towards the houses in Chell Heath. On the extreme left is Vickers Road and in the centre, the houses on Burnwood Place, Brockbank Place and Bishop Road. Off to the ...
Christchurch Street and City Road, Fenton
The Royal Oak pub can be seen in the distance.
Christchurch Street, Fenton
This photograph was taken opposite Christ Church Fenton, looking north. Until the 1950s renaming of streets, this was Church Street. Nelson street is coming in on the left. With rebuilding, Nelson Street ...
Church Bank Pottery, Bank Street, Tunstall
The imposing chimney of Church the Bank pottery. The original Church Bank works was built by Robert Beswick in 1842 and passed through several hands before becoming Thomas Booth took over in 1868, manufacturing ...
Church Lane, Hanford
The view east along Church Lane from the bend just before St Matthias' Church (on the left). Behind the bushes on the left is the churchyard. The cluster of houses on the right remain much the same. Standing ...
Church Lane, Hanford
The view east along Church Lane from just beyond the Church with Diarmid Road off to the right. Many of the buildings have changed although the house on the corner extreme right is still the same. The ...
Church Lane, Ipstones. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Church Lane, Ipstones, Staffordshire. The Ipstones Branch shop of the Leek and Moorlands Co-operative Society is on the left.
City Road, Fenton
Looking east along City Road from the corner of Manor Street. Christchurch Street is coming in on the right. The building on the right hand edge is the old Royal Oak public house, now demolished. In ...
City Road, Fenton
This photograph was taken from the corner of Standard Street and City Road, looking westwards towards Stoke. On the extreme right hand edge is the Newtown public house (then Newtown House). On the left ...
City Road, Fenton
This was the view from the corner of City road and Glebedale Road (previously Station Road) towards the junction at Victoria Square in Fenton in the 1960s. On the right is the entrance to Fenton Vicarage, ...
City Road, Stoke upon Trent
A view from the corner of Oldmill Street east towards the railway bridge over City Road. The corner shop was an off licence and tobacconist. When City Road was widened, all the shops and terraced houses ...
Claud Street, Fenton
The junction of Claud Street and Grove Road in Fenton. Partly hidden behind the house on the corner is a row of early eighteenth century houses or cottages.
Clayton Lane from Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking southwards along Clayton Lane from close to the junmction with the A34 (Newcastle Road). On the left are bakery buildings, at the time of the photograph, Birkett & Roberts Trent Vale Bakery, producing ...
Cobden Street, Dresden, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
This photograph shows the newly built Cobden Street in Dresden when the town of Longton was still prospering and expanding its suburbs.
Beyond the trees at the top of the street and out of view is Florence ...
Cobden Street, Dresden.
Cobden Street in the early 1970's, and a demolition programme is in progress. It is difficult to imagine just how such a prosperous middle class area of the early 1900's could face demolition just seventy ...