1st Hixon Scout Group at Camp
1st Hixon Scout Group in a railway carriage during one of their summer camping trips which took pace between 1922 and 1926. Standing on the platform wearing a flat cap is Wilmot Martin. He was Chairman ...
A general view of Rugeley
This image was almost certainly taken from the north elevation of 15 Ashleigh Rd Pear Tree Estate. When the Photograph was taken, it would have been fields and farmland. The White gates on the extreme ...
Allsopp & Sons Ltd. train with brewing machinery, Burton-upon-Trent
This photograph marks a very significant event in British brewing history: the main-stream introduction of lager beer brewing. Previously, supplies were imported from Germany or had been produced in smaller ...
Alton Towers Special, Rocester
A British Railways Fowler 2-6-4 locomotive approaches Rocester station with an Alton Towers six-coach special in the late 1950s. After the Second World War the village of Rocester was chosen for the ...
Amington colliery, Tamworth
Amington pit miners next to the railway with, fourth from left, Master Walter Oliver Perry, who was only 12 to 14 years old at the time this photograph was taken.
Armitage Railway Station
This glass negative image shows a southbound train approaching. The man on the up platform (right) is probably a porter. The LNWR locomotive establishes mid-1904 as the earliest date of the photograph. ...
Barton and Walton Station, Barton-under-Needwood
Barton and Walton Railway Station with a steam locomotive and carriage at the platform. The station served Barton-under-Needwood in Staffordshire and Walton-on-Trent in Derbyshire. The station was opened ...
Bass & Co. Ltd., Middle Brewery, Burton-upon-Trent
Bass & Co. Ltd.’s Middle Brewery was completed in 1858 and stood to the west of Guild Street in Burton-upon-Trent.
Photograph from Boots Fine Art Views of Burton, published by Boots Limited in the ...
Bass & Co. Ltd., Middle Yard, Burton-upon-Trent
Looking west along Bass & Co. Ltd.’s Middle Yard showing the cask washing sheds. Middle Yard lay between the Bass Old and Middle Breweries.
Photograph from Boots Fine Art Views of Burton, published ...
Bass & Co. Ltd., Shobnall Maltings, Burton-upon-Trent
Bass & Co. Ltd.’s Shobnall Maltings consisted of seven linked ranges of buildings built between 1873 and 1876. This enormous industrial site also included an ale store, a cask washing and repair facility, ...
Bass & Co., Ltd. Locomotive and Director's Coach, Burton-upon-Trent
An 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive pulls an observation carriage containing visitors to the Bass brewery site, on a tour of the business in Burton-upon-Trent.
Photograph from 'Boots Fine Art Views of ...
Bass brewery staff outing, Scarborough
A postcard view of Bass brewery staff pictured arriving at Scarborough Railway Station on a works outing to the North Yorkshire coast.
Photographer: J.S.Simnett of Burton upon Trent
'Black Five' bound for Llandudno
British Railways 'Black Five' 4-6-0 locomotive number 45045 prepares to meet a rake of coaches at Leek railway station.
Together, they will form a service bound for Llandudno in North Wales - a long-standing ...
Bolton's Copper Works, Froghall, Kingsley
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 there was no more room for expansion at Oakamoor so they began building at Froghall. Major extensions followed in the 1930s, ...
Brereton Collieries, Rugeley
A postcard view of Brereton Collieries. The pit on the right was originally known as Brick-Kiln pit, latterly Brereton Colliery which closed in 1960, the same year that production started at nearby Lea ...
Brookfield Foundry and Kerr Stuart engineering works, Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view west from the Whieldon Road area towards the Brookfield Foundry. The main railway line runs in front of the buildings and behind can be seen the floodlight pylons of the original Stoke ...
Brookfield Foundry, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows what was the California Engineering Works of the locomotive builders, Kerr Stuart & Co. Railway locomotives had been produced on this site since 1892. Kerr Stuart closed down in ...
Burley Pit, Chesterton
Burley Pit was part of Apedale colliery and was open between about 1850 and 1926. This photograph was taken by Thomas Warham, a local photographer, who took many photographs of Audley and its surrounding ...