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Happy Days Coaches, Stafford

This Happy Days Coach 379 BRE, fleet number 82, was a Beadle LD with Beadle coach body new in 1954. The Happy Days Coach business was started around 1922 by the Austin family. They operated originally ...

Harecastle railway tunnel from Hollywall Lane, Tunstall

Looking westwards from Hollywall Lane towards the southern entrance of the Harecastle railway tunnels (immediately behind the first pylon). On the skyline to the right is the pillar of the Wedgwood Monument ...

Harecastle railway tunnel North

The tunnel opened in 1848 to accommodate the North Staffordshire Railway line between Kidsgrove & Tunstall. The tunnel is 1766 yards long and was closed in 1965 to make way for the new tunnel built to ...

Harecastle tunnel, Chatterley, Tunstall

The southern entrance to Harecastle Telford tunnel, showing the fan house (built 1954) at the tunnel portal. the fan house ventilated the tunnel allowing internal combustion engines to be used instead ...

Harecastle Tunnel, Kidsgrove

Photograph shows a narrowboat emerging from the south end of the Harecastle Tunnel.

Harecastle Tunnel, Kidsgrove

A working narrowboat, butty boat and crew entering the northern entrance to the Telford Harecastle tunnel. The butty boat has AC0 Ltd printed on the tarpaulin. The very busy Brindley Tunnel could only ...

Harecastle tunnels, Chatterley, Tunstall

The southern entrance to Harecastle tunnels, pictured before the fan house was built. The Brindley tunnel is on the left, with the Telford tunnel to the right. The North Staffordshire Railway line is ...

Harecastle Tunnels, Kidsgrove

N.S.R. engineering narrowboat moored alongside the towpath between the Brindley legging tunnel and the Thomas Telford additional parallel tunnel with towpath. A working narrowboat, J. & G. Meakin's ...

Harecastle tunnels, Kidsgrove

The northern entrance to the Harecastle tunnels showing Telford's tunnel on the left. A narrow boat 'Percy', owned by Henry Rathbone, is on the canal, with a load of salt, limestone or china clay. A woman ...

Harecastle Tunnels, Kidsgrove

The Brindley (on the right) and Telford (on the left) canal tunnels can be seen here. The Brindley canal tunnel was designed by James Brindley and was opened in 1777. The tunnel took many years to complete ...

Harecastle Tunnels, Kidsgrove

The northern entrance to the Harecastle tunnels showing Telford's tunnel on the left. The overhead cable for the electric tug can be seen. A narrow boat has been moored to prevent access to the closed ...

Harecastle tunnels, Trent & Mersey Canal, Kidsgrove

The southern entrance to Harecastle tunnels. The Brindley tunnel is on the left, with the Telford tunnel to the right. The North Staffordshire railway line is seen on the left. The crane on the canal ...

Hargraves Taxi in Bolebridge Street floods, Tamworth

Hargraves Taxi, driven by Fred Hargrave, in floods in Bolebridge Street during the 1930's. Bolebridge street flooded regularly due to its close proximity to the rivers of Tame and Anker.

Harper Brothers coach, Heath Hayes

Harper Brothers was founded in Heath Hayes in 1922 by Cecil G. Harper. 'Gloria de Luxe' was an early trade identity of Harper Brothers, a name apparently contrived from a mixture of Latin and French. ...

Harpfield Infants School, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent

Harpfield Infants School was built in 1875. Under the guidance of its first chairman, Sir Lovelace Stamer, Rector of Stoke-on-Trent, who was also chairman of the National Schools Board in Stoke, the ...

Harpfield Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent

The camera is looking north east up Harpfield Road from close to the junction with Newcastle Road (A34). The road curves round towards the roundabout at Keelings Drive, off the photograph. Flash Lane ...

Harry Penton and his dog, Cannock

Harry Penton walking with his dog 'Peg' in Cannock town centre in the mid 1950s. Harry would have been around 60 at this time, still working as a coal miner. He retired aged 65 in about 1961. He died ...

Harry Poole, Gamekeeper, Ingestre

Harry Poole was employed as head game keeper by the Earl of Shrewsbury at Ingestre Hall between 1920 and 1928. He was later employed as Head Keeper under Mr Harrison, who held the shooting rights to ...