Stafford Street, Longton
The photograph shows Stafford Street (renamed The Strand in the 1950s) in 1910. The camera is looking north towards the Market Place and railway bridge.To the left is the old Longton Wesleyan Chapel and ...
Stafford Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Stafford Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Stafford Street is now known as The Strand.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them ...
Stafford Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene.
Taken on Stafford Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Stoke market hall, Church Street, Stoke
This plan is of Stoke market hall in Church Street, Stoke. The building is still used as a market hall today and has an adjacent area of open land with outdoor stalls.
Diagrams (from top):
- Front of ...
Stoke Old Road, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
This is the view eastwards along Stoke Old Road from close to the corner with Balloon Street in Hartshill. Balloon Street was known as Federation Street until the 1950s. The Victorian terraced houses ...
Students bookshop, Broad Street, Hanley.
This rather ornate building built in the Renaissance style was originally a doctor’s residence in the late nineteenth century. The doctor around 1905 added the top floor, much to the consternation ...
Swan Square, Burslem
The Lloyds Bank building stood on the north side of Swan Square. The building still stands but has changed use. The date tablet above the main entrance (1765) is the date of the foundation of Lloyds Bank. ...
Swan Square, Burslem
The west side of Swan Square in Burslem. To the left is Queen Street, with The Wedgwood Institute on the right hand side. On the corner is the Art Deco style Burslem & District Co-operative Society Emporium, ...
Sydney Street, Hanley
A view along Sydney Street in Hanley. The first building on the right was a shop, once a grocer and draper's. At the end is Bexley Street. Between the houses are entries to the back alley which ran ...
The Post Office, Critchlows Corner, Blurton
Situated on the very edge of Longton’s urban sprawl one could be fooled into thinking that this is a quiet country scene. To the left the embankment carries the mineral railway line to Florence Colliery, ...
The Broadway, Meir
Photograph taken looking north towards Weston Coyney, Meir Heath is up the hill behind the camera.
The Royal Hotel, Westport Road, Burslem.
The Royal Hotel stood at 20 Liverpool Road (renamed Westport Road), next door to the Ryal or Hill Pottery. The top of a bottle oven is just peeking over the roof of the hotel. Parker's Ales supplied beer ...
The Strand, Longton
Building at the junction of The Strand and Clayton Street, Longton.
The Strand, Longton
The view along the Strand towards the railway bridge and Times Square, with the Crown Hotel building behind, taken from close to the corner of Heathcote Road. On the left hand edge is the entrance to ...
The Vine Inn and Vine Street, Hanley
Vine Street ran between Bethesda Street and Lichfield Street in Hanley. This is a view towards the Lichfield Street end. Vine Street and its buildings were demolished with the building of the Crown Court ...
Three Horse Shoes Inn, High Street, Tunstall
The Three Horse Shoes public house was on High Street, Tunstall between Madison Street (then called King Street) and Bank Street, and was a Joules pub. The building to its right was the registered office ...
Town Hall and Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent
This view along Glebe Street shows the buildings on the north side. On the right edge is the Glebe Hotel, still standing today as the Glebe public house ( a grade II listed building). Beyond Aqueduct ...
Town Road from Market Square, Hanley
The camera is looking north along Town Road from the edge of Market Square. Today this is the entrance to the Potteries Shopping Centre. The shop on the left is Sherwin's Music Store which everything ...