Goods train near Rudyard
A "down" goods train hauled by locomotive number 48106 passes Rudyard lake with flatbed trucks. Circa 1960.
A small narrow guage railway now operates along some of this section of track during the ...
Lonsdale Street, Stoke on Trent
A view of Lonsdale Street in the town of Stoke-upon-Trent. St Peters Church is in the background. The scene is not that different today.
File name: Stoke - Campbell Road 1967 smc
Lonsdale Street, Stoke
Photograph shows Lonsdale Street very near to the junction with Woodhouse Street looking towards Stoke St Peter's Church.
A typical street scene from the 1960s that has not changed too much in the ...
Foxt Lane, Ipstones
Although captioned Foxt Lane, this view was taken from Brookfields Road in Ipstones and shows a cottage on a bend of Shay Lane. The cottage has since been demolished and a new stone-built house stands ...
Trentham Ballroom
During the Second World War many important departments were moved from London and other major cities in order to evade air raids.
On 26 August 1939, just prior to the outbreak of war, the Bankers ...
Berryhill Secondary School, Stoke-on-Trent
Berry Hill Secondary Modern School under construction in September 1964. The photograph was taken west of Arbourfield Drive looking eastwards. The disturbed ground in the foreground is spoil from the ...
Pre-fabricated houses in Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
An estate of pre-fabricated houses was built on open land just to the east of Stone Road and south of Rookery Lane in Trent Vale. The houses were built as part of the Temporary Housing Programme at the ...
Gardens at Alton Towers
Stereoscope slide containing a view of Alton Towers and formal gardens. Originally home to the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers has been developed into one of Europe's best known theme ...
Moreton Old Hall. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Moreton Old Hall, Congleton Road, Cheshire.
Little Moreton Hall, as it is known today, is a fine example of a Tudor period timber framed moated manor house.
The building is a National Trust ...
Wenger's Colour Works, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
Wenger's Ceramic Colour and Chemical works offices seen from outside the entrance to Etruria Station. The old Etruria Road runs across the bottom of the photograph with the railway bridge in the centre. ...
Milton Aluminium works, Redhills Road, Milton, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking along Redhills Road towards the entrance to the Milton works of British Aluminium. British Aluminium established rolling mills at Milton in 1897 and they remained until the works closed in 1965. ...
The Limes Maternity Hospital, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent
The Limes was used as a maternity block for the main North Staffs Royal Infirmary. This Victorian house was converted into a maternity hospital in 1928 at a cost of £14,000. The building was demolished ...
Roman Catholic Church, Lower Foundry Street, Hanley
The building on the left was originally the church of St Mary and St Patrick, opened in 1860. the present church of the Sacred Heart on Jasper Street was consecrated in 1911. The church in Lower Foundry ...
Uttoxeter Road, Normacot
Old cottages by the milestone on Uttoxeter Road, Normacot. All The dwellings that we see here lasted another 30 to 35 years after the photograph was taken before they were demolished to make way for ...
WRVS Tea Van, Stoke-on-Trent
The Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress, Council Officials and Civil Defence members photographed in front of a mobile tea van during the Second World War.
Mobile tea vans like this would have been operated ...
Cromartie Street, Longton
A wintery scene in the Dresden district of Longton. Note an almost total absence of cars parked on the street. Not much call for a gritter lorry in those days!
File name: Cromartie-St-in-the-Snow-c-...
Bomb Damage, Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Photograph of a bomb damaged shop on the High Street in Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent.
Part of an official survey commissioned in 1941 by the City of Stoke-on-Trent.
Bomb Damage, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent
Bomb damage at the rear of Heathouse Lane, Bucknall, photographed on 23 August 1942.
Comment by David Salt:
"I was born on 29 January 1941, in 10 Hulton Road, Abbey Hulton. The earliest memory, that ...