View of Enville Hall looking across the Seahorse Pool, Enville
The manor of Enville was purchased by Sir Edward Grey in 1528, and he had built the brick house which forms the core of the present Hall by 1548. The Greys later became Earls of Stamford. The Hall was ...
Walk Mill Pool, near Eccleshall
A postcard view of the mill pool created on the River Sow to drive Walk Mill. Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which ...
Waterfall, Rudyard Lake
A postcard view taken near to the dam wall at the south end of Rudyard Lake. Rudyard Lake is a reservoir constructed in 1797 by engineer John Rennie to feed the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal. ...
Weston Jones Mill, Norbury,
There has been a mill at Weston Jones since 1532.
This building was constructed in the eighteenth century, but was added to in the nineteenth century; it was derelict by 1914.
The mill wheel was ...
Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking northwest over Westport Lake towards Bradwell Woods. The main railway line runs along the shoreline in front of the industrial buildings on Chemical Lane. There is more housing ...
Whit Monday outing to Alton Towers
Crowds on the lawn at Alton Towers, looking north towards the lake.
Alton Towers was the home of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury. It was built between about 1810 and 1852.
The 15th Earl ...
Wolseley Garden Park, Rugeley
Pictured is the front cover of a promotional leaflet produced for the opening of Wolseley Garden Park on 1 May 1990. The photograph was taken in the estates former walled kitchen garden which was transformed ...
Wolseley Garden Park, Rugeley
Pictured is the front cover of a brochure produced for the opening of Wolseley Garden Park on 1 May 1990. The photograph was taken in the estate's former walled kitchen garden which was transformed for ...
Wolseley Hall, Rear View, Colwich,
The Wolseley family had lived on the estate since Norman times. In the eighteenth century Wolseley Hall was rebuilt, but burned down in the 1950s.
The estate remained derelict until 1990, when the ...
Wyrley and Essington Canal, near Lichfield
This postcard view shows a widebeam barge near to Lock number 14 on the former Wryley and Essington Canal. Lock 14 was one of a series of locks on the canal between Wall Lane and Fosseway Lane near Lichfield. ...