Arrowhead or sagittaria sagittifolia
Arrowhead is a perennial found chiefly in canals but also in shallow ponds, ditches and slow-flowing rivers. Its name derives from the shape of the leaves.
Flowering between July and August, it can ...
Baddeley Green from Norton Lane, Norton-in-the-Moors
The camera is looking east from Norton Primary School over the valley of the Trent towards Baddeley Green. Hidden in the valley is the Caldon Canal , with Engine Locks Cottage is just to the left of ...
Bank Haye Brook valley, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking south along the Biddulph Valley branch line. This section is between Black Bull (behind the camera) to Ford Green and the photograph was taken from the Whitfield Mill crossing. Off to the left ...
Bank Haye Brook, Brindley Ford
A view along the Bank haye Brook just east of Brindley Ford village. The stream is emerging from a culvert beneath the path to Bemersely Farm. The brook is just over 6 miles (10km) long and is the first ...
Barlaston Old Road. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene with a view of Barlaston Old Road, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Beeston Tor, Manifold Valley
A view of the Manifold Valley, looking towards the limestone cliffs of Beeston Tor. The building on the lane in the middle distance is Beeston Tor Farm. This area is now part of the Peak District National ...
Beeston Tor, Manifold Valley
The limestone cliff face of Beeston Tor with the dry bed of the River Manifold in the foreground. This area is now part of the Peak District National Park.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
Beresford Dale
Landscape with a view of the River Dove at Beresford Dale, near Hartington, Derbyshire taken in summer 1906. This stretch of the River Dove marks the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire.
Photographer: ...
Beresford Dale
Landscape with a view of the River Dove at Beresford Dale, near Hartington, Derbyshire. This stretch of the River Dove marks the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire.
Photographer: William Blake ...
Bilberry, or Vaccinium myrtillus
A common shrub of heath, moors and woods on acid soil.
The bilberry can grow up to 30cm in height.
This example was found growing at Penkridge Bank, Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, by local naturalist ...
Birches Head Road, Caldon Canal, Abbey Hulton, Stoke on Trent
A view north east across the River Trent valley from the Birches Head Road bridge over the Caldon Canal. The buildings in the right centre were Abbey Farm in the 1960s, now Trent Country Club, with Redhills ...
Bird Vetch, or Vicia cracca
This perennial grows in hayfields, wet meadows, hedgerows and wood borders.
It boasts a set of tendrils that cling to other vegetation.
Flowering between June and August, its can grow to a length ...
Bittersweet or Solanum dulcamara
Bittersweet, also known as Woody Nightshade is a perennial sprawling plant found in hedges and woods.
Flowering between June and September, its stem can grow up to 1.75m in length.
This example ...
Blurton Road and the Cockster Brook Bridge, Blurton
This is the view north along Blurton Road from Poplar Drive. In the centre of the photograph is the bridge that carries the road over the Cockster Brook (also known as the Longton Brook). The brook starts ...
Bog Asphodel or narthecium ossifragum
Bog Asphodel is a locally found perennial in the acid moorland bogs.
Flowering between July and September, it can grow to height of 30cm.
This example was found growing at Quarnford by Eric Edees.
About ...
Bog Lane bridge and brook, Lightwood
Bog Lane was later known as Woodpark Lane.
Bog Lane bridge, Lightwood, Longton
Photograph taken from the south-west, looking towards Longton. Bog Lane was later known as Woodpark Lane.
Bradwell Woods and Fowlea Brook, Tunstall
Looking south west over the Fowlea Brook towards the higher ground of Bradwell Woods. The photograph was taken from near the end of Watergate Street by Copp Lane. Running across the centre is the main ...