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Cheadle Road, Draycott-in-the-Moors

Village scene including a man at work near the junction with Cheadle Road and Uttoxeter Road, Draycott-in-the-Moors. On the left is the Draycott Arms public house which closed in 2022 and is now (2023) ...

Cotwalton Valley. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape taken at Cotwalton Valley, Hilderstone, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire.

Cotwalton Valley. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape taken at Cotwalton Valley, Hilderstone, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire.

Cotwalton Valley. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape taken at Cotwalton Valley, Hilderstone, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire.

Cow Creamer

With the fashion for taking tea, coffee and chocolate in the mid 18th century came the need for equipment for preparing and serving it. One of the more fanciful inventions of potters (and silversmiths) ...

Feeding the chickens at a farm, Normacot

Possibly Mill House Farm.

Hilderstone Hall From S.W. Photographed by William Blake.

Village scene with a view of Hilderstone Hall, Hilderstone, Nr. Stone, Staffordshire. The photograph was taken from the south west of the building.

Landscape, Unknown. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape. Unknown location.

Lester's Farm and Sand Hills, Normacot

Mill House Farm, Watery Lane was also known as Lester's Farm after the family which lived there. Photograph taken looking west. The farm's stockyard is in the foreground.

Mosslee, Ipstones. Photographed by William Blake.

"Mosslee" at Ipstones, Staffordshire. Cattle graze in the surrounding field.

New Park House, Trentham

The south side of New Park House in Trentham. This was once the home of the Tellwright family, directors of Sneyd Collieries Ltd. in the 1920s. The house stood in farmland (New Park Farm) now developed ...

Reservoir Fields, Meir Road, Normacot

The Hillside housing estate was built here later. Meir Church can be seen in the background.

Rough Close Common. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape with a view of the common at Rough Close, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Stanley, Calf. Photographed by William Blake.

Farm scene including a calf, gate and farmhouse. Taken at Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

The East Cloister, Croxden Abbey. Photographed by William Blake.

View of the east cloister ruins at Croxden Abbey, Nr. Alton, Staffordshire.

The South Transept, Croxden. Photographed by William Blake.

View of the south transept ruins at Croxden Abbey, Nr. Alton, Staffordshire.

Trentham Hall. Photographed by William Blake.

View of the fron gates at Trentham Hall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The original hall was erected in the 1630s for the Duke of Sutherland. It was redesigned in an Italian style during the nineteenth ...

Turkeys at Great Eaves Farm, Bucknall

Great Eaves Farm lies on the City boundary in Eaves Lane. The fam dates back to the 1680s. Bert Bentley was very keen top, point out that the farmer, in 1964 a Mrs Hughes, " ...breeds 50 turkeys every ...

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