Dry-stone Walling Competition, Brassington, Derbyshire
This competition was organised by Derbyshire Agricultural Institute following a series of classes. Mr G.L. Maw of Derbyshire Agricultural Institute had organised classes at Alsop en le Dale, Parwich ...
Dry-stone Walling Competition, Flagg, Derbyshire
The second Peak and South Derbyshire Dry-stone Walling Association dry-stone wall competition, held at Mr R. White’s farm at Back o’ th’ Hall Farm, Flagg, Derbyshire. 50 competitors from Derbyshire ...
Dry-stone walling competition, Newhaven, Hartington, Derbyshire
The first Peak and South Derbyshire Dry-stone Walling Association drystone wall competition, held at Friden Grange, Newhaven, near Hartington, Derbyshire and organised by Mr G.L. Maw. 89 competitors ...
Dry-stone Walling Competition, Newhaven, Hartington, Derbyshire
The first Peak and South Derbyshire Dry-stone Walling Association drystone wall competition, held at Friden Grange, Newhaven, near Hartington, Derbyshire and organised by Mr G.L. Maw. 89 competitors ...
Dudley Wood Road, Dudley Wood, West Midlands
A view looking north east towards Dudley Wood Road, one of a series of photographs taken showing subsidence of buildings due to coal mining. Most of the buildings to the left of the photograph are suffering ...
Eccleshall Castle
Eccleshall Castle viewed from the south, with the River Sow and meadows in the foreground. The castle was used as the residence of the Bishops of Lichfield. The first reference to this building was in ...
Empty goods train at Cheadle Station
A train of empty wagons stands at the platform at Cheadle station in the early 1980s.
The Cheadle branch line was opened in 1892, although trains did not reach Cheadle itself until 1st January 1901. ...
Enchanter's Nightshade, or Circaeia lutetiana
You can find this perennial plant growing in damp woods, shady places and in hedgerows.
Flowering between June and August, it can grow to a height of 60cm.
This example was collected at Solomon's ...
Endon Village, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape overlooking Endon village Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Enjoying a holiday at Fisherwick Park Farm, near Lichfield
At Fisherwick Park Farm, between Whittington and Elford, near Lichfield.
Essington Windmill
This photograph taken in the 1920s is almost certainly Essington Windmill, Staffordshire's only post-mill
All that remains today is the base and central post. It believed to have been built by Henry ...
Estate map of Bignall Hill, Audley
A map of Mr Parrott's estate in Bignall Hill, Audley, near Newcastle-under-Lyme. Shown are field boundaries, field names and land of adjacent tenants. It is drawn at a scale of one inch = twelve perches.
Dimensions: ...
Etching Hill, Rugeley
Postcard view of Etching Hill in the distance, seen from the A51 near Wolseley Bridge. Etching Hill is a good viewpoint on the north-eastern edge of Cannock Chase and has a distinctive, flat sandstone ...
Evode Chemical Works Ltd., Stafford,
The Common Road site.
Spic and Span Shoe Polishes Ltd. was established in Glover Street on 3 June 1932. The company was partly owned by Lotus Ltd., the shoe manufacturers.
In 1938 the company, ...
Excavation of Queen's Low Barrow, Tixall, (2)
Queen's Low is a burial mound located near Lower Hanyards.
The mound dates from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (2400 - 1500 BC), and is known as a 'bowl' barrow because of its shape.
Fair Oak, near Wetwood
A postcard view looking across the fields around Fair Oak.
This postcard was published by E.J. Hurlstone of High Street, Eccleshall.
Fair on Milford Common,
Fairs have been held on Milford Common since the 1880s. By 1906 fairs were held on every Bank Holiday both in the spring and summer.
Milford was a very popular weekend destination for visitors in the ...
Fairy flax, or Linum catharticum
This plant, which can reach a height of 25cm, can be found growing on calcareous grassland, and flowers between June and September.
"Calcareous" grasslands are areas where the grass grows on soils ...